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Second up tomorrow, we have Anupkumar Rai who will tell us about his work biochemically characterizing an oxygen detoxifying enzyme that helps everyone’s favorite methanogen, Methanosarcina acetivorans, grow in the presence of O2. Check your email or Slack for the Zoom link!!

Almost archaea time!! Tune in tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20th at 10 AM EST / 4PM CET for the last seminar of our spring series 🥲. We have an exciting methanogen double feature in store for you! First up, Dr. Christian will tell us about his work enriching a novel methanogen from the Great Salt Lake!

Archaea Power Hour returns next WEDNESDAY, May 20th, at 10AM EST / 4PM CET for the final installment of our spring semester seminar series!! We have two exciting talks planned for you so check your email for the Zoom link (coming soon) or visit our website (link in bio) for more info on how to join.

Second up tomorrow, April 22nd at 10AM EST / 4PM CET, Katy Weber will tell us about her interesting work to mechanistically characterize electron transfer in a reductase protein from Haloferax volcanii!! Visit the link in our bio for more info on how to join our community!!

Set your archaea alarms because APH starts tomorrow, Wednesday 4/22, at 10AM EST / 4 PM CET. We’ll start off with an intriguing talk from Dr. Alex Phillips about how droughts 🌵and floods 🌊 in the Great Salt Lake affect haloarchaeal inhabitants!! Check your email for the Zoom link!!

🚨 Archaea alert 🚨!! We’re back this Wednesday, April 22nd, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET with two exciting research talks! You won’t want to miss this so check your email for the Zoom link or visit the link in our bio for more info on how to join the community 🦠

Archaea Assemble!!! Archaea Power Hour returns next WEDNESDAY, March 18th at 11AM EST / 4PM CET. We will be having a special APH edition about science policy & reproducibility with the American Society for Microbiology and the protocol-sharing platform archaea.bio:

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It’s almost time for our last APH session of the semester!! We have an exciting session planned for you so make sure to tune in tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10AM EST / 4 PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website (link in bio) for more information. Schedule of talks below:

Second up this Wednesday, Jiayuan Cui will tell us about her exciting and rigorous research biochemically characterizing a radical SAM enzyme involved in archaeal monolayer lipid (GDGT) cross-linking. Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website (link in bio) for more info on how to join!

Archaea Power Hour is back for our final session of the semester this WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17th, at 10AM EST / 4PM CET. We’ll start off with an intriguing talk from @fmacleod.bsky.social about his work uncovering unique intracellular membrane-bound compartments in an Asgard archaeon!!!

Happy Holidarchaeays 🎅🏼🦠!!! Want to get on the nice list this year?? Well then make sure to tune in to Archaea Power Hour this Wednesday, Dec. 17th, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET! See the two exciting talks we have planned for you below and keep an eye on your email for the Zoom link.

Archaeasalutations!! Archaea Power Hour is back tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET!! Check your email for the Zoom link or sign up to join our mailing list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Check out the two exciting talks we have planned for you:

Set your alarms! We’re only 5 hours away from Archaea Power Hour’s fall return at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link or sign up here to join our mailing list: forms.gle/6QvCjHH2H4pxro…. Check out the exciting schedule we have planned for you:

Second up this WEDNESDAY at 10AM EST / 4 PM CET, we have an exciting talk from Dr. Yan Liao who will tell us about her research combing molecular genetics and advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on archaeal cell division!! Check your email or sign up for the link: forms.gle/6QvCjHH2H4pxro…

Archaea alert 🚨! This WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22nd at 10 AM EST / 4PM CET, we will kick off our fall seminar series with a talk from Dr. Nili Ostrov, co-founder of Cultivarium FRO, telling us about her organization’s work to accelerate genetics in non-model organisms including archaea!! Zoom link in email!

WE ARE BACK!!! Archaea Power Hour will return this coming WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22nd at 10AM EST/4PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link (coming soon) or register here: forms.gle/6QvCjHH2H4pxro…. Take a look at the exciting talks we have planned to kick off our fall seminar series:

Alright archaea fans, make sure to tune in tomorrow for our LAST APH SESSION of the semester at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link or sign up to join our mailing list here: t.co/b17JFAaZQ6. Check out our exciting lineup of talks below:

Think you're under pressure? Marion Illartin will close out our last APH session of the semester by telling us about her multidisciplinary approach to characterize how pressure regulates the SurR transcription factor in everyone's favorite barophile, Thermococcus barophilus!! Zoom in on May 14th!

In just 2 days on WEDNESDAY, May 14th at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET, @fabaiwu.bsky.social will kick off our last spring APH session by telling us about his new research investigating the evolution of DNA replication machineries from Archaea to Eukaryotes!!! Visit our website (link in bio) for more info!

Tune in for our last (😭) APH session of this semester next WEDNESDAY, May 14th, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET!!! Check your email soon for the Zoom link or sign up to join our mailing list here: t.co/b17JFAaZQ6. Check out the exciting talks we have planned for you:

We're just hours away from our next Archaea Power Hour session! Make sure to Zoom in at 11 AM EST / 4 PM CET to see our two exciting talks and catch up with your archaea besties! Check out the schedule below:

And closing us out tomorrow, we'll have Wouter Magnus tell us about his intriguing research into the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms that govern the virus-host interaction between an archaeon and the SSV1 virus. Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website (in bio) for more info.

Archaea Power Hour is back TOMORROW, April 9th, and kicking off our session we'll have Dr. Veronika Kivenson talk about her exciting research uncovering and characterizing a NEW archaeal genetic code! You won't want to miss so make sure to tune in at 11 AM EST / 4 PM CET!!!

Archaea Power Hour is back this Wednesday, April 9th, at 11 AM EST / 4 PM CET, with an exciting lineup of talks!! Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website (link in bio) for more info on how to join.

We're just hours away from our next APH session! Check out the schedule we have planned for you below and make sure to tune in at 11 AM EST / 4 PM CET. You won't want to miss! Note the 1-hour time difference for US-based researchers (you'll get to sleep in a little more 🥳).

Second up on Wednesday, March 12th, we'll have Priyanka Chatterjee talk to us about her intriguing research into quorum sensing in the salty Haloferax volcanii, identifying many key players in this cellular communication response in archaea! Check your email for the Zoom link!

Archaea Alert! We're just one day away from our next APH session! First up, @cjhines.bsky.social will tell us about his exciting work to uncover the elusive last step of coenzyme M biosynthesis and to demonstrate its effectiveness as an antioxidant!! Make sure to tune in on March 12th, 11AM EST!!

It's that time again! Make sure to tune in THIS WEDNESDAY, March 12th, at 11AM EST (note the time change) / 4 PM CET to catch two exciting talks from @cjhines.bsky.social and Priyanka Chatterjee!! Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website for more info on how to join (link in bio).