Miguel Méndez Sandín
@sandinmm.bsky.social
Understanding eukaryotic molecular diversity and evolution. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @IBE_Barcelona @beaplab.bsky.social
https://miguelmsandin.github.io/
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Mastodon: @SandinMM@ecoevo.social
https://miguelmsandin.github.io/
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Mastodon: @SandinMM@ecoevo.social
Oligonucleotide design meets big data:
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oligonucleotide design meets big data:
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: On the quest for novelty in ecology
On the quest for novelty in ecology
Ottaviani, Gianluigi1, 2, 3, 4 ; Martínez, Alejandro5 ; Petit Bon, Matteo1, 6 ; Mammola, Stefano4, 5, 7 1 Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboñ, Czech Republic 2 Department of…
buff.ly
May 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: On the quest for novelty in ecology
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
May 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
With the « Life of Retaria » we do podcasts! Listen to the first one during which we interviewed @fabnot.bsky.social #protistsonsky
My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
The Life of Retaria Experience
thelifeofretaria.github.io
May 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
With the « Life of Retaria » we do podcasts! Listen to the first one during which we interviewed @fabnot.bsky.social #protistsonsky
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
The Life of Retaria Experience
thelifeofretaria.github.io
May 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
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...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Now published online in Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Now published online in Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? We suggest that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with ocean oligotrophy: doi.org/10.1111/1462...
Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out!
#protistsonsky
Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out!
#protistsonsky
May 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? We suggest that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with ocean oligotrophy: doi.org/10.1111/1462...
Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out!
#protistsonsky
Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out!
#protistsonsky
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Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...
Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...
A few highlights:
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...
Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...
A few highlights:
April 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...
Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...
A few highlights:
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...
Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...
A few highlights:
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Adding planktonic algae to anoxic marine sediments promotes the anaerobic growth of phagotrophic #eukaryotes. The #Neoproterozoic Rise of Algae may have similarly promoted benthic phagotrophs, directing carbon, energy, and nutrients to early animals. #ProtistsOnSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Rise of Algae promoted eukaryote predation in the Neoproterozoic benthos
The rise of marine algae stimulated microbial predation at the seafloor, rerouting carbon and energy to the earliest animals.
www.science.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adding planktonic algae to anoxic marine sediments promotes the anaerobic growth of phagotrophic #eukaryotes. The #Neoproterozoic Rise of Algae may have similarly promoted benthic phagotrophs, directing carbon, energy, and nutrients to early animals. #ProtistsOnSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing”
@biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social
www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
@biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social
www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
ForBio and UiO/IBV course: Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing
- ForBio
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.forbio.uio.no
January 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing”
@biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social
www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
@biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social
www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
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I feel this might be a good week to re-post this. Data is power.
Interesting resource. 🇪🇺👩💻
I was only aware of a fraction of these services
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I was only aware of a fraction of these services
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January 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I feel this might be a good week to re-post this. Data is power.
Next Monday 13 we have the 6th session of The Life of Retaria Seminar Series!
Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social
Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io
#radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky
Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social
Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io
#radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky
January 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Next Monday 13 we have the 6th session of The Life of Retaria Seminar Series!
Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social
Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io
#radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky
Join us at 08h00 (CET) and discover symbiosis in these wonderful protists with Caroline Juery and @filiphusnik.bsky.social
Check it out: thelifeofretaria.github.io
#radiolaria #foraminifera #theLifeOfRetaria #protistsonsky
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Plankton store carbon and play an important role in our climate. In a new opinion piece, @n-llopis-m.bsky.social—a @sbroscoff.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at MBARI—shares what we can learn from diatoms.
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturegeosci.bsky.social
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturegeosci.bsky.social
Polar diatoms fade in the twilight zone - Nature Geoscience
The intense, efficient transfer of organic carbon from the surface to the deep Southern Ocean make it a key component of the global carbon cycle. Observations show that this process isn’t always drive...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Plankton store carbon and play an important role in our climate. In a new opinion piece, @n-llopis-m.bsky.social—a @sbroscoff.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at MBARI—shares what we can learn from diatoms.
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturegeosci.bsky.social
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturegeosci.bsky.social
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New preprint led by Ruben Gonzalez-Miguens for a new coi database that should be useful to annotate metabarcoding datasets with protists.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 10, 2024 at 4:14 PM
New preprint led by Ruben Gonzalez-Miguens for a new coi database that should be useful to annotate metabarcoding datasets with protists.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)
December 10, 2024 at 7:42 AM
I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)
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JOB ALERT!
A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts.
The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics).
#PhDposition
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts.
The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics).
#PhDposition
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
November 15, 2024 at 2:47 PM
JOB ALERT!
A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts.
The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics).
#PhDposition
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts.
The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics).
#PhDposition
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. This Consensus View lays out guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Com...
journals.plos.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
phylopic.org
October 19, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
Interesting resource. 🇪🇺👩💻
I was only aware of a fraction of these services
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
I was only aware of a fraction of these services
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
November 18, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Interesting resource. 🇪🇺👩💻
I was only aware of a fraction of these services
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
I was only aware of a fraction of these services
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
A nice perspective about common misconceptions of speciation
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
Common misconceptions of speciation
Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin
academic.oup.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:11 PM
A nice perspective about common misconceptions of speciation
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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Happy to have collaborated on this with Miguel! A new time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of radiolarians with insights on their hidden diversity 🧪
Radiolaria are known for their elaborate and gorgeous skeletons, found all over our oceans. But what if I tell you that half of their diversity might be naked!?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Happy to have collaborated on this with Miguel! A new time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of radiolarians with insights on their hidden diversity 🧪
Radiolaria are known for their elaborate and gorgeous skeletons, found all over our oceans. But what if I tell you that half of their diversity might be naked!?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 9, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Radiolaria are known for their elaborate and gorgeous skeletons, found all over our oceans. But what if I tell you that half of their diversity might be naked!?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Miguel Méndez Sandín
It’s happening!!🎉
Today our second seminar of the Life of Retaria seminar series!
Join us at 14h (CET) to dive deeper into the role of Forams and Rads in marine biogeochemical cycles! 🌊
Our presenters: Nielja Knetch & Manon Laget😍
Learn more and register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Today our second seminar of the Life of Retaria seminar series!
Join us at 14h (CET) to dive deeper into the role of Forams and Rads in marine biogeochemical cycles! 🌊
Our presenters: Nielja Knetch & Manon Laget😍
Learn more and register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 8, 2024 at 11:51 AM
It’s happening!!🎉
Today our second seminar of the Life of Retaria seminar series!
Join us at 14h (CET) to dive deeper into the role of Forams and Rads in marine biogeochemical cycles! 🌊
Our presenters: Nielja Knetch & Manon Laget😍
Learn more and register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Today our second seminar of the Life of Retaria seminar series!
Join us at 14h (CET) to dive deeper into the role of Forams and Rads in marine biogeochemical cycles! 🌊
Our presenters: Nielja Knetch & Manon Laget😍
Learn more and register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...