🎄🧬 It’s December – time for an 'Immunocalendar': “CRISPR CRISPR KNÄUSCHEN”!

Every day we open a new door onto a different prokaryotic immune system, with extra love for archaeal hosts.

Crafted by the Zink Group within our department :)

Have a wonderful Christmas time! ✨

Fresh from our group, a new role for oxygen production in ammonia-oxidizing archaea:

Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

Congrats to Thomas Pribasnig for this great work!

Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Crawling motility of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, our favorite Asgard Archaeon.

An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms