Nika Pende
@nikapende.bsky.social
Microbiologist & Independent Postdoc at University of Vienna. Working on cell and chromosome biology in non-model archaea (and bacteria) 🦠 Loves 🔬 & diving 🦀 🐠 🐙
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Live cell imaging of Ca. Nha. antarcticus and Hrr. lacusprofundi using agarose pads. Protocol now live!
www.archaea.bio/protocols/li...
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Live Cell Imaging of Ca. Nha. antarcticus and Hrr. lacusprofundi using agarose pads
This protocol is an adapted form of the protocol developed for imaging haloarchaea (Liao et al., 2021) and subsequently applied to co-cultures containing nanohaloarchaea and haloarchaea (Hamm et al., ...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Live cell imaging of Ca. Nha. antarcticus and Hrr. lacusprofundi using agarose pads. Protocol now live!
www.archaea.bio/protocols/li...
www.archaea.bio/protocols/li...
Very nice work! Congrats to @syncellbiolab.bsky.social and all the authors 🥳
Thrilled to see our work published in @embojournal.org
#asgard #archaea #cytoskeleton #tubulin #FtsZ
We sincerely appreciate the constructive peer review and the reviewers’ thoughtful, supportive feedback, which greatly strengthened our work.
#asgard #archaea #cytoskeleton #tubulin #FtsZ
We sincerely appreciate the constructive peer review and the reviewers’ thoughtful, supportive feedback, which greatly strengthened our work.
Insights into the origins of the #tubulin / #FtsZ superfamily: @syncellbiolab.bsky.social, Pananghat Gayathri et al show that two #Asgard archaeal paralogs OdinFtsZ1 and OdinFtsZ2 form distinct filamental structures, and employ different modes of membrane tethering
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Very nice work! Congrats to @syncellbiolab.bsky.social and all the authors 🥳
So happy that I could contribute to this nice paper and to see it finally out now! Special congrats to @dbaquero.bsky.social and @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🥳
Here are the link to both studies:
Weinberger et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baquero et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Weinberger et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baquero et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biogenesis of DNA-carrying extracellular vesicles by the dominant human gut methanogenic archaeon - Nature Communications
Baquero et al. show that extracellular vesicles produced by the dominant human-gut archaeon are likely formed by budding from the cell membrane and released through disruptions in the cell wall, and c...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So happy that I could contribute to this nice paper and to see it finally out now! Special congrats to @dbaquero.bsky.social and @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🥳
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On our new episode of Archaeacast, Priyanka and I cover the Archaea we carry with us every day. Followed by a brilliant interview w/ @chmoei.bsky.social discussing a correlation between Archaeal populations and BMI, the absence of pathogenic Archaea, & more!
#SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology #Life
#SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology #Life
Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains? | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our sixth episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Dr. Connor Hines discuss the archaea that are very close to home–the ones that can live in and on us! In the second part...
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May 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
On our new episode of Archaeacast, Priyanka and I cover the Archaea we carry with us every day. Followed by a brilliant interview w/ @chmoei.bsky.social discussing a correlation between Archaeal populations and BMI, the absence of pathogenic Archaea, & more!
#SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology #Life
#SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology #Life
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Excited to announce the EMBO Conference: Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!
Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.
Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.
April 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Excited to announce the EMBO Conference: Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!
Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.
Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.
Sooo cool! Congrats @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and Co.!
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
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April 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Sooo cool! Congrats @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and Co.!
Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky
From the @commsbio.bsky.social journal | Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building | #Bioinformatics #FAIR #OpenScience
#OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building - Communications Biology
Archaeal research and its growing importance have benefited from a community that is engaged in various collaborative efforts, which are highlighted here with examples for the sharing of resources and...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky