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the unculturables: exploratory research & beyond. EMBO-YIP 2003, EAM 2012, adERC 2013, EMBO 2024. https://beja.net.technion.ac.il/
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Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
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New researchers in IceLab are often encouraged to become one with ice. Become little ice cubes. In the river.
Don't worry, it is entirely voluntary! Two new members took advantage of health on campus day to try it out today! Well done to Master's student June and PhD student Luis!
Don't worry, it is entirely voluntary! Two new members took advantage of health on campus day to try it out today! Well done to Master's student June and PhD student Luis!
February 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM
New researchers in IceLab are often encouraged to become one with ice. Become little ice cubes. In the river.
Don't worry, it is entirely voluntary! Two new members took advantage of health on campus day to try it out today! Well done to Master's student June and PhD student Luis!
Don't worry, it is entirely voluntary! Two new members took advantage of health on campus day to try it out today! Well done to Master's student June and PhD student Luis!
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Great to see our work on the evolution of light harvesting complexes is now online. Congratulations to Jas Sound and Giorgio Bianchini for pulling it all together! #nativeMS #cyanos
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mass spectrometry reveals the evolutionary conservation of phycobiliprotein complexes - Nature Communications
Cyanobacteria are highly taxonomically and ecologically diverse species that have survived for billions of years. Here, authors show key structural features have remained within their light harvesting...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Great to see our work on the evolution of light harvesting complexes is now online. Congratulations to Jas Sound and Giorgio Bianchini for pulling it all together! #nativeMS #cyanos
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacterial defense via RES-mediated NAD+ depletion is countered by phage phosphatases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Bacterial defense via RES-mediated NAD+ depletion is countered by phage phosphatases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Registration and abstract submission for the international CE neuro meeting are now open!
C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
European C. elegans and CeNEURO Meeting 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
2026 European C. elegans and CeNEURO meeting
ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org
February 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Registration and abstract submission for the international CE neuro meeting are now open!
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Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology)
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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@hhmi.org
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology)
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
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New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Electrophysiology in nanoscale compartments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 18, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Electrophysiology in nanoscale compartments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity
Large-scale, structure-guided computational pipeline sifts through millions of phage
proteins to identify those that bind and antagonize host immune proteins. Detected
proteins are shown to inhibit no...
www.cell.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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PhD & Postdoc Positions at the Dept of Microbial Population Biology of the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Plön, Germany) to work on jumbo phages & HGT of genomic islands. An amazing research team led by the one and only Paul Rainey, one of the most hard-core evolutionary micro/biologists of our time!
February 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
PhD & Postdoc Positions at the Dept of Microbial Population Biology of the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Plön, Germany) to work on jumbo phages & HGT of genomic islands. An amazing research team led by the one and only Paul Rainey, one of the most hard-core evolutionary micro/biologists of our time!
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Koonin's lab in NIH is looking for postdocs. If you know someone who is interested, please spread the word. The details about the position are below: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-ecb...
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February 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Koonin's lab in NIH is looking for postdocs. If you know someone who is interested, please spread the word. The details about the position are below: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-ecb...
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📣new preprint from the phagefoundry.org team 🎉 Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!!
Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍
Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍
February 18, 2026 at 3:26 AM
📣new preprint from the phagefoundry.org team 🎉 Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!!
Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍
Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍
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MBARI President and CEO Antje Boetius received an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in recognition of her contributions to deep-sea and polar research. LMU is one of Germany’s leading universities with a 550-year history. Read more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-p...
MBARI President and CEO Antje Boetius honored for her contributions to deep-sea and polar research • MBARI
MBARI President and CEO Antje Boetius received an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in recognition of her contributions to deep-sea and polar research.
www.mbari.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
MBARI President and CEO Antje Boetius received an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in recognition of her contributions to deep-sea and polar research. LMU is one of Germany’s leading universities with a 550-year history. Read more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-p...
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We are happy to share our newest preprint on a novel strain of Ca. Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, that contains an active provirus, capable of excision and independent replication! We propose a novel virus family: Fylgjaviridae.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
We are happy to share our newest preprint on a novel strain of Ca. Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, that contains an active provirus, capable of excision and independent replication! We propose a novel virus family: Fylgjaviridae.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
February 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
De novo design of GPCR exoframe modulators www.nature.com/articles/s41...
De novo design of GPCR exoframe modulators - Nature
De novo designed proteins that target the transmembrane domain of G-protein-coupled receptors, created using iterative structural predictions, are able to act as agonist-positive, negative or biased a...
www.nature.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
De novo design of GPCR exoframe modulators www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Le public pose des questions sur l'origine et l'évolution de Luca dans ce Bar des Sciences avec Patrick Forterre, professeur de biologie et ancien directeur de l' @institutpasteur.bsky.social à l' @univparissaclay.bsky.social #biologie #science #Paris
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Le public pose des questions sur l'origine et l'évolution de Luca dans ce Bar des Sciences avec Patrick Forterre, professeur de biologie et ancien directeur de l' @institutpasteur.bsky.social à l' @univparissaclay.bsky.social #biologie #science #Paris
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✨ Hier au Bar des Sciences : cap sur LUCA, le Last Universal Common Ancestor, ancêtre commun de toutes les formes de vie. Une plongée dans les origines du vivant et les débats actuels.
Merci à Patrick Forterre, prof de #biologie à @univparissaclay.bsky.social pour ses éclairages sur LUCA. #science
Merci à Patrick Forterre, prof de #biologie à @univparissaclay.bsky.social pour ses éclairages sur LUCA. #science
February 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
✨ Hier au Bar des Sciences : cap sur LUCA, le Last Universal Common Ancestor, ancêtre commun de toutes les formes de vie. Une plongée dans les origines du vivant et les débats actuels.
Merci à Patrick Forterre, prof de #biologie à @univparissaclay.bsky.social pour ses éclairages sur LUCA. #science
Merci à Patrick Forterre, prof de #biologie à @univparissaclay.bsky.social pour ses éclairages sur LUCA. #science
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How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 AM
How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
The Callahan Lab at NC State University (https://callahanlab.cvm.ncsu.edu/team/) is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to study the transfer of DNA between bacteria (horizontal gene transfer;HGT) by virus...
jobs.ncsu.edu
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...
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February 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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The formal description of the phylum’s type species, Caldisericum exile, was published in 2009. It has taken 17 years to finally describe a second cultivated representative.
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doi.org/10.1099/ijs....
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February 15, 2026 at 9:21 AM
The formal description of the phylum’s type species, Caldisericum exile, was published in 2009. It has taken 17 years to finally describe a second cultivated representative.
@microbiologysociety.org
doi.org/10.1099/ijs....
@microbiologysociety.org
doi.org/10.1099/ijs....
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The second isolate from the bacterial phylum Caldisericota (formerly candidate phylum OP5, first detected in Yellowstone's Obsidian Pool) has been found in a thermal spring on Sakhalin Island: Caldisericum insulae sp. nov. 🦠🌋
#microbiology #taxonomy #bacteria #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1007/s007...
#microbiology #taxonomy #bacteria #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1007/s007...
February 15, 2026 at 9:21 AM
The second isolate from the bacterial phylum Caldisericota (formerly candidate phylum OP5, first detected in Yellowstone's Obsidian Pool) has been found in a thermal spring on Sakhalin Island: Caldisericum insulae sp. nov. 🦠🌋
#microbiology #taxonomy #bacteria #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1007/s007...
#microbiology #taxonomy #bacteria #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1007/s007...
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The American Academy of Microbiology proudly announces the election of 63 fellows to the Class of 2026. Over the past 50 years, the Academy has elected +2,700 distinguished scientists. This year, the new fellows hail from 14 countries. Read press release: asm.social/2OC
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The American Academy of Microbiology proudly announces the election of 63 fellows to the Class of 2026. Over the past 50 years, the Academy has elected +2,700 distinguished scientists. This year, the new fellows hail from 14 countries. Read press release: asm.social/2OC