Anthony M. Bonacolta
@ambonacolta.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow in the Keeling Lab @ UBC studying marine protistan symbionts. Previously: del Campo Lab & Coral Reef Futures Lab 🐠🪸🌊🧬 He/Him 🏳️🌈
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A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
The chromosome-scale genome assembly of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius macclurei (Blenniidae)
Abstract. Here, we present a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly for the redlip blenny Ophioblennius macclurei (family Blennidae). The assembly
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Loved this opportunity to extend the data we first used to describe the Ichthyocolids! 🩸🐟 Thanks @ikeririsarri.bsky.social and team for spearheading this 🙌🏻
Reposted by Anthony M. Bonacolta
Kulikov, @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social et al present a 529.6 Mb chromosome-scale genome for the redlip blenny (scaffold N50 = 23.7 Mb; BUSCO = 97.06%). Annotation identified 18,927 protein-coding genes.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf242
📸 Evan D’Alessandro
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf242
📸 Evan D’Alessandro
#genome #evolution
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Kulikov, @ikeririsarri.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social et al present a 529.6 Mb chromosome-scale genome for the redlip blenny (scaffold N50 = 23.7 Mb; BUSCO = 97.06%). Annotation identified 18,927 protein-coding genes.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf242
📸 Evan D’Alessandro
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf242
📸 Evan D’Alessandro
#genome #evolution
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Great talk this morning from @ambonacolta.bsky.social on apicomplexans in marine holobionts including Anthozoans.
Really enjoying this lovely microbiome symposium by @ryanehulett.bsky.social and @wrong-whale.bsky.social! Great way to start SICB 2026!
Really enjoying this lovely microbiome symposium by @ryanehulett.bsky.social and @wrong-whale.bsky.social! Great way to start SICB 2026!
January 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Great talk this morning from @ambonacolta.bsky.social on apicomplexans in marine holobionts including Anthozoans.
Really enjoying this lovely microbiome symposium by @ryanehulett.bsky.social and @wrong-whale.bsky.social! Great way to start SICB 2026!
Really enjoying this lovely microbiome symposium by @ryanehulett.bsky.social and @wrong-whale.bsky.social! Great way to start SICB 2026!
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released!
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
Release Next time I'll try to be FASTA · tseemann/any2fasta
New features
Option -k is keep processing even when some inputs fail
option -g to include GBK version suffix
option s to strip desc from>id desc in ID lines
Support for PDB protein structure forma...
github.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released!
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
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🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
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End-of-year preprint dump! A collaboration with @messorensen.bsky.social and German and Korean colleagues: "The phylogenetic context for the origin of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis "
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org/10.64898/202...
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
End-of-year preprint dump! A collaboration with @messorensen.bsky.social and German and Korean colleagues: "The phylogenetic context for the origin of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis "
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Perkinsus marinus is an important marine pathogen yet we know little about its biology.
@macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Complexome profile of mitochondrial complexes in the myzozoan parasite of oysters, Perkinsus marinus
Mitochondrial complexes, such as the mitochondrial electron transport chain (mETC), the F1Fo-ATP synthase and the mitochondrial ribosome, are centrally important for mitochondrial function. Recently, ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Perkinsus marinus is an important marine pathogen yet we know little about its biology.
@macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🚨 Surprise podcast episode alert! 🚨
This week on Tiny Living Beings, I interviewed @oliverio.bsky.social and @hbrappap.bsky.social who led the discovery of the ‘fire amoeba’, that can reproduce at the highest temperature ever recorded for a eukaryote! 🌋 #protistsonsky
This week on Tiny Living Beings, I interviewed @oliverio.bsky.social and @hbrappap.bsky.social who led the discovery of the ‘fire amoeba’, that can reproduce at the highest temperature ever recorded for a eukaryote! 🌋 #protistsonsky
Introducing the Fire Amoeba
open.spotify.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🚨 Surprise podcast episode alert! 🚨
This week on Tiny Living Beings, I interviewed @oliverio.bsky.social and @hbrappap.bsky.social who led the discovery of the ‘fire amoeba’, that can reproduce at the highest temperature ever recorded for a eukaryote! 🌋 #protistsonsky
This week on Tiny Living Beings, I interviewed @oliverio.bsky.social and @hbrappap.bsky.social who led the discovery of the ‘fire amoeba’, that can reproduce at the highest temperature ever recorded for a eukaryote! 🌋 #protistsonsky
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Just on time for the holidays! Happy to share the published version of the discovery of leptophytes, a new deep-branching and widespread group of microalgae based on plastid MAGs (ptMAGs). Now with additional support from a mitochondrial MAG (mtMAG) of leptophytes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Identification of a deep-branching lineage of algae using environmental plastid genomes - Nature Communications
Here, the authors leverage data from the Tara Oceans expeditions to perform a phylogeny-guided plastid genome-resolved metagenomic survey and provide 660 non-redundant plastid genomes from marine alga...
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Just on time for the holidays! Happy to share the published version of the discovery of leptophytes, a new deep-branching and widespread group of microalgae based on plastid MAGs (ptMAGs). Now with additional support from a mitochondrial MAG (mtMAG) of leptophytes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just plain stupid, petty, and will end up harming people. Like everything else this administration does
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Just plain stupid, petty, and will end up harming people. Like everything else this administration does
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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A bacterial predator, Halobacteriovorax, acts as a living "probiotic" that halts Vibrio-induced disease progression in endangered Caribbean corals. This shows microbial predators are promising new tools for coral disease therapy! #CoralReefs #MicrobialEcology #ISMEJ academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Halobacteriovorax halts disease progression in endangered Caribbean corals
Abstract. Predation is a top-down regulator of ecosystem integrity and a key driver of community structure and evolution in plants and animals. Despite our
academic.oup.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A bacterial predator, Halobacteriovorax, acts as a living "probiotic" that halts Vibrio-induced disease progression in endangered Caribbean corals. This shows microbial predators are promising new tools for coral disease therapy! #CoralReefs #MicrobialEcology #ISMEJ academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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New preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social that capitalized on the wealth of publicly available 18S rRNA datasets to explore the oceanic distribution and diversity of understudied anaerobic ciliates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates
Anaerobic protists are diverse, ecologically important members of anoxic microbial communities, acting as grazers, nutrient cyclers, and partners in multi-domain associations, yet remain understudied ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social that capitalized on the wealth of publicly available 18S rRNA datasets to explore the oceanic distribution and diversity of understudied anaerobic ciliates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga).
🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga).
🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome
#microbiology #microbiome #glacier #MicroSky
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbiology #microbiome #glacier #MicroSky
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Thousands of metagenome-assembled genomes from the Vanishing Glaciers project showcase the interactions between prokaryotes, algae, fungi and viruses in glacier-fed stream environments.
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome
#microbiology #microbiome #glacier #MicroSky
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microbiology #microbiome #glacier #MicroSky
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Respiratory endosymbionts, that allow their ciliate hosts to breathe nitrate instead of (or in addition to) oxygen are frequent members of the wastewater microbiome. 🦠 🖥️🧬
Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations!
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations!
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Validate User
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Respiratory endosymbionts, that allow their ciliate hosts to breathe nitrate instead of (or in addition to) oxygen are frequent members of the wastewater microbiome. 🦠 🖥️🧬
Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations!
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations!
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Loved this opportunity to extend the data we first used to describe the Ichthyocolids! 🩸🐟 Thanks @ikeririsarri.bsky.social and team for spearheading this 🙌🏻
A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
The chromosome-scale genome assembly of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius macclurei (Blenniidae)
Abstract. Here, we present a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly for the redlip blenny Ophioblennius macclurei (family Blennidae). The assembly
academic.oup.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Loved this opportunity to extend the data we first used to describe the Ichthyocolids! 🩸🐟 Thanks @ikeririsarri.bsky.social and team for spearheading this 🙌🏻
Reposted by Anthony M. Bonacolta
Thanks @ikeririsarri.bsky.social 🙌
It was a pleasure contributing to this. I am a big fan of data recycling ♻️😊
It was a pleasure contributing to this. I am a big fan of data recycling ♻️😊
A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
The chromosome-scale genome assembly of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius macclurei (Blenniidae)
Abstract. Here, we present a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly for the redlip blenny Ophioblennius macclurei (family Blennidae). The assembly
academic.oup.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thanks @ikeririsarri.bsky.social 🙌
It was a pleasure contributing to this. I am a big fan of data recycling ♻️😊
It was a pleasure contributing to this. I am a big fan of data recycling ♻️😊
Reposted by Anthony M. Bonacolta
A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
The chromosome-scale genome assembly of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius macclurei (Blenniidae)
Abstract. Here, we present a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly for the redlip blenny Ophioblennius macclurei (family Blennidae). The assembly
academic.oup.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
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I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Glad I got to contribute a little bit to this study on the microbiomes of deep sea annelids! 🪱 🦠 🌊
Check out Grimes et al here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEmNI7ED3... #Microbiomes #WormWednesday
Check out Grimes et al here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEmNI7ED3... #Microbiomes #WormWednesday
Microbial community composition and functional potential in Annelida from abyssal and hadal zones of the Aleutian trench
The Aleutian Trench represents a high latitude, hadal environment where little is known about factors structuring host-microbiome interactions. Here, …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Glad I got to contribute a little bit to this study on the microbiomes of deep sea annelids! 🪱 🦠 🌊
Check out Grimes et al here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEmNI7ED3... #Microbiomes #WormWednesday
Check out Grimes et al here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEmNI7ED3... #Microbiomes #WormWednesday
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🪸 Wei et al recently published a beautiful hologenome study of a deep-sea black coral, revealing the intricate metabolic interactions that underpin the intertwined lives of these animals and their microbial symbionts.
Here the study published in Cell Host & Microbe 👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Here the study published in Cell Host & Microbe 👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🪸 Wei et al recently published a beautiful hologenome study of a deep-sea black coral, revealing the intricate metabolic interactions that underpin the intertwined lives of these animals and their microbial symbionts.
Here the study published in Cell Host & Microbe 👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Here the study published in Cell Host & Microbe 👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Interesting new research on the transcriptomics of Symbiodinid thermal tolerance from Xiang et al
Distinct transcriptomic strategies underlie differential heat tolerance in Symbiodiniaceae symbionts
Abstract. Dinoflagellate algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae, symbionts of many marine cnidarians are critical for the metabolic integrity of reef ecosyste
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interesting new research on the transcriptomics of Symbiodinid thermal tolerance from Xiang et al
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Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.