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Lawrence Rudy Cadena
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Doctoral candidate in evolutionary biology at HHU Düsseldorf @ Nowack Lab | Interested in protists, endosymbiosis, and organelle biogenesis
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Nature research paper: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup

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Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Out today: New nucleus-encoded component of the endosymbiont division machinery identified in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei.
Congrats @anaymaurya.bsky.social and @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social!!!🎉🎉🎉 1/2
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Mitochondria finally made the headlines, yay!

Oh wait, ... oh no ....
via @acyn.bsky.social

RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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New paper is out! We have studied the cute tiny Discocelia plataet sp. n. to obtain the first molecular data of the order Discocelida and clarify its cell structure. All this for a better understanding of the evolution of Cercozoa.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia 🇨🇦

Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social

#protistsonsky
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Anna Novák Vanclová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social

#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution #Eukaryotes
July 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Promethea = PROvora + MEteora + HEmimastigophora. The new supergroup, unifying previously “orphan” lineages with gene-rich mitogenomes. Position of #telonemids is still uncertain. #protistsonsky tinyurl.com/yk9xkt49
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Honored to have presented our work on spatial proteomics and selected for one of the best student presentation awards in this year’s ICOP/ISOP 2025 conference in Seoul! Amazing talks from protistologist from all branches of life 😉 Hope to see you guys next year in Prague! #protistonsky
June 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
June 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Anyone by any chance have the OligoArrayAux program as a windows ZIP file laying around and willing to share? Needed to run on DECIPHER. All UNAFold websites are defunct and no mirrors exist 😕 #ProtistsOnSky
June 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM