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Next talk in our theme on microbial genetics: Andrew Roger (Dalhousie) on "The roles of gene transfer and symbiosis in the evolutionary adaptation of protists to low oxygen environments" Friday, April 26 at 9:00 AM PDT.

#POSTDOC POSITION: Come work with me on the spatial organization of #symbiosis in the #protist #Anaeramoeba @UU_university. 🇸🇪 2-yr stipend; international applicants welcome; app review begins 5 May. More info below. 👇 #microbiology #evolution #proteomics

& its a clap for #PlanExM team in #Napoli EMBLtrec EMBL Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn The most 🤩 samples we've got till now! A pleasure to work alongisde #plankton team Johan Decelle Flora Vincent Elisabeth Hehenberger & AML no Michael Bonadonna Tinadynamics &Paulina Now calm time before #Athens

Another amazing EMBLtrec stop in #Napoli at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn! We sorted kleptoplastidic dinos with Michael Bonadonna and prepared for ExM with Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ and Hiral Shah of #PlanExM team. Thank you also no Tinadynamics & Paulina of #AML and team Johan Decelle for everything!

A manuscript preprint for ROD (the Ribosomal Operon Database) is available on bioRxiv 🥳 The database contains full-length ribosomal operons extracted from genomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… with @DrHyfe Inger Skrede ellathoen

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist. Intense & exciting to have my essay published in The New York Times exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance Mapping fungi w/family SPUN New York Times Opinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf (photo 2011, Kenya)

I find this paper quite the tour de force. Congrats to all authors. Investigation of heterotrophs reveals new insights in dinoflagellate evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Monumental effort - 39 heterotrophic species added to the tree of dinoflagellates! And they are all over the place (tree) = many losses of photosynthesis!

Absolutely deserved!

Gerhard J. Herndl has received an ERC Advanced Grant for "NEREIDES" project to explore marine snow in the deep sea and reveal unknown aspects of the marine carbon cycle. microbial-oceanography.eu/detailansicht/…

Exciting PhD opportunity on protist symbiosis evolution within a Narodowe Centrum Nauki project SYMBIOSTART available in my team at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW! 📅 Apply by June 3. More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/235291 #protist #symbiosis #evolution

Amazing work! New genomes & transcriptomes of lichen algal symbionts (& non-symbiotic algae) show 1) 3 independent gains of the ability to engage in the lichen symbiosis in chlorophyte algae (so, convergent evolution), & 2) due to a combination of gene family expansion &

Indeed, what a ride. Although joining late, it was such a big, beautiful experience for me - mostly because of all the people I met and worked with along the way.

Beautiful study on the discovery of giant viruses in a tiny flagellate

Can free-living eukaryotes exist without mitochondria? In a new paper from my group led by Shelby, we show that the answer is probably yes! nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology Welcomes New Editor-in-Chief Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @DacksLab1 Wiley protistologists.org/the-journal-of…

I'm extremely honoured and grateful to have received an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. So many people have supported this effort, from my wonderful lab and colleges to the reviewers and panel members - thank you everyone! Very excited to start this project! #ERCCoG

Monod Conference "Origin of metazoans": fossils, genomes, cell biology, gene regulation, development, and more. Join us in Roscoff for an exceptional speaker line-up and stunning venue! 🗓️Abstract deadline: March 4. Register and share! insb.cnrs.fr/fr/origin-meta…

Exciting news for aquatic microbial ecologists! The 18th SAME meeting will take place in Barcelona (Sept 28–Oct 3, 2025) 🧬🌊 Interested? Pls, share your details here: forms.gle/XUTfGqq3tpgL7z…—it only takes a minute! Spread the word & save the date! 🗓️ EMM_Barcelona ICM-CSIC