Zachary Ardern
zachary-ardern.bsky.social
Zachary Ardern
@zachary-ardern.bsky.social
Researching the evolution of protein novelty in bacteria & viruses @Wellcome Sanger Institute 🧬
NZer, previously postdoc @KIT & TUM.
Interested in philosophies of science & religion
Married to @ankeaa.bsky.social, galactic archaeologist 🌌
I'm glad to now be an academic editor for PLOS Computational Biology @plos.org, expecting to handle 1-2 manuscripts a month.

If you're a postdoc in microbial evolutionary genomics / other 'omics topics interested in review experience, let me know - I will be looking for reviewers!
June 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
To live in Cambridge is to be surrounded by amazing built history.

One favourite of mine is the Round Church, where I've had the privilege of speaking a couple of times. It was built approx. ~1130AD, likely before the first human settlement in my homeland of NZ 🤯
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_...
March 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I'm excited to be co-hosting a seminar series on Protein Structure Evolution, presenting some of the exciting work in this field.

Talk 1:
Speaker: Andrei Lupas
Topic: "Highly repetitive genomic ORFs: a source of new fibrous proteins?"
📅 Feb. 11, 3PM GMT
🔗 tinyurl.com/prose-seminar1

Please share!
January 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM