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Bacterium: “Archaea? Yeah, they’re alright. Quiet, peace-lovi....aaaargggh, STOP! STOP IT! WHAT IS HAPPENING??” [silence] Archaeon: “Mwahahaha” (probably) Discover the dark side of archaea in our latest pre-print, led by Romain Strock biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

Preprint alert! Fascinating project shedding light on how Archaea actively kill Bacteria. Genome mining reveals several possible weapons. This preprint focuses on cell-wall degradation. Congrats Romain Strock 🎉! Feeling lucky to have contributed.

I wish biologists would still use the word animalcules.

Congrats to the team Luminate Medical (YC S21) on the $15M Series A! Luminate makes devices that help cancer patients prevent the side effects of cancer treatment. Their first product, Lily, is a cap that enables chemotherapy patients to prevent hair loss. techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/lum…

Our latest preprint: Sriram Garg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

We @RIBESresearch Radboud University are seeking to strengthen our team in Crop Biotechnology with two new assistant professors. The deadlines are November 3. Please re-share! ru.nl/en/working-at/… ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Sweet. Substitution matrix for protein structure alignments. Will certainly help to settle some phylogenetic debates. Structures somehow change more slowly than underlying sequence so might be better suited for deep nodes

Nice preprint from Daria Bonazzi Institut Pasteur, since 1887. In vitro / ex vivo expts show confinement alters E. coli morphology & physiology Bacterial growth under confinement requires transcriptional adaptation to resist metabolite-induced turgor pressure build-up biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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❗Here it goes! My first first-authored story is now available in Biorxiv. Here we show that the decades-old belief that SODs are necessary for aerobic life may not be true for up to 5-10% of all living organisms! Check it out and help us share it! 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

7 years ago, I met a junior fellow named Jason Buenrostro who blew me away with a vision of futuristic genomic technologies Today, we (Ajay Labade, @carolinecomenho) are excited to share our first steps into that future: Expansion in situ genome sequencing 1/

Delighted to speak at the next Archaea Power Hour conference this Wed, 9th Oct! Tune in to hear about conflicts between archaea & bacteria. Thanks to Brittany Baker for the kind invite!

I wrote a memoir for Michael Grunstein, a pioneer in histone biology and epigenetics, for ⁦⁦National Academy of Sciences⁩. Read about his incredible personal journey and how his career unfolded. nasonline.org/directory-entr…

Disappointed by the The Guardian on this one. ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-abo…

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Sometimes I wonder if I should not just stop everything, sit down and read all Eugene Koonin papers

Senior post-doc guessing culture's OD by eye

I had a such a fantastic time, thanks for the invitation!! I felt privileged to be part of the Labex DEEP, and so happy to see familiar faces again.

Excited to share that the AlphaFold 3 model code and weights are now available for academic use. Looking forward to seeing what new research this unlocks and how the research community builds on AlphaFold 3 for scientific discoveries github.com/google-deepmin… 1/2