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Astra Demertzi
@astrademertzi.bsky.social
PhD Candidate
Microbial Evolution & Bioinformatics

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New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#MEvoSky #MicroSky
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Professor microbe knows the drill.

#Evomics
April 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Only a few more days to apply for this exciting postdoc position (deadline: 6th of April)!
Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Postdoc Comparative genomics and genome architecture in early-diverging fungi and their protist relatives (3-year position)
www.wur.nl
March 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Welcome to Greece: Where Time Stops and So Do the Trains 🚂💥

🚆 In February 2023, 57 people died in a train collision. Two years later, you can still buy a ticket on that same line — with the same dangers.
🎯 Help us make it visible.

#TrainCrashGreece #Tempi #VisitGreeceSafely
March 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I think it’s PTSD at this point

#MEvoSky #ArchaeaSky #Eukaryogenesis #Evomics
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Loki’s ever the trickster, but thankfully Thor knows how to put him in his place

#ArchaeaSky #Asgard #comics #comedy
March 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature
The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It's my #birthday tonight.
I'm turning 30 😀😱

I'm hosting a dinner with some friends, and I have hanged one A1 print in the living room 🍄

If you would like to support me and to really see this project grow up, #repost today one of my posts as a birthday gift 🎁🎁

Would you put this on your wall?
February 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM