Jennah E Dharamshi
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Jennah E Dharamshi
@jennahed.bsky.social
Evolutionary microbiologist | VR postdoctoral researcher @uuuniversity & non-stipendiary EMBO fellow/visiting researcher at The Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) | microbial evolution, symbioses, host-symbiont interactions, multicellularity, protists
Reposted by Jennah E Dharamshi
Could animals have originally evolved by cell aggregation? we believe they could!. See two different relatives of animals aggregating and deploying key multicellular genes. Nice collaboration with JP Gerdt, T. Alarcón, koryu_kin, Ruibao, Gonzalo, @jennahed.bsky.social & Kyle. #protistsonSky
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Jennah E Dharamshi
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
Reposted by Jennah E Dharamshi
On this day, 10 years ago, my lab published the @nature.com paper reporting the discovery of the Asgard archaea (Lokiarchaeota at the time), revealing the archaeal nature of eukaryotic cells, and reshaping the Tree of Life. What a ride it has been since then... www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes - Nature
This study identifies a clade of archaea that is the immediate sister group of eukaryotes in phylogenetic analyses, and that also has a repertoire of proteins otherwise characteristic of eukaryotes—pr...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Jennah E Dharamshi
Despite 150+ years of Radiolaria diversity research, we have just scratched the surface. Nearly half of Radiolaria diversity might be naked hiding in plain sight! We unveiled the diversity and evolution of Radiolaria beyond "the stars of the ocean"
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Jennah E Dharamshi
We must have been super lucky that contamination was all from different lineages to each Njord MAG and yet all from the same clade of unknown Asgard so that Njord form monophyletic groups within Asgards in individual gene trees.
May 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM