Plenty of time left to apply for the opportunity to work with a great team and to tackle fundamental questions in the field of endosymbiosis! 🦠

Eva Nowack@evanowack.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔬Postdoc position available! Interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying host-endosymbiont interactions? Join our group and help us explore these fascinating biological partnerships! Deadline: 29. Oct Details & application: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please spread the word!

Our paper on the subcellular proteome of Paulinella is finally out! A possible oxygen-scavenging mechanism to enhance RuBisCO carboxylation highlights how protists can reveal unexpected solutions to challenges in photosynthesis. Big kudos to everyone involved! @evanowack.bsky.social

Ben Long@botbml.bsky.social · last mo.

Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora www.cell.com/current-biol...

Yikes! Scientists are pushing back on this and I totally agree with their criticism, but what I worry about the most here is that others outside of academic science (e.g., in Silicon Valley) will veer into their typical reductionist mindset and declare, “we’ve solved papers!” 🤮

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic workshop on spatial proteomics organized by @rosswaller.bsky.social at the Natural History Museum in London. Was an honor to be invited to meet and discuss LOPIT with tons of new folk all working in different protist systems. We’ll see how the field evolves in the next 5 years!

Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

For @science.org , I wrote about brain-eating amoeba 🦠 and fascinating new research led by @katrinavelle.bsky.social which could help explain how the usually harmless pond-dweller ends up in the brain. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Brain-eating amoeba’ appears to love crawling into narrow spaces

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity

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⏳Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstract for the EMBO Meeting “Advances and New Frontiers in Protein Translocation Across Membranes” (21–25 Sept 2026, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, near Barcelona). More details and abstract submission here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-pro...

Two weeks left to apply! 🌊 Exciting #PhDPosition in #PlanktonEcology at the University of Koblenz, Germany! Work on #marine #protists with a mix of 🔬 wet lab and 💻 bioinformatics in a 3-year, 60% position. 📅 Apply by 20 May 2026 Please repost/share 🙌 Link: tinyurl.com/yu27knau #ProtistsOnSky

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

Han et al. studied phototrophic Paulinella amoeba, suggesting that primary endosymbiosis may have left a detectable footprint in host mitochondrial genomes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag052 #genome #evolution #mtDNA @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social

Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists (see more in thread below) Registration Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026. Regular Monday 10th August 2026. There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...

Check out our new review in Nature Reviews Genetics on de novo emerged genes and proteins. How they emerge, are lost and persist - and how de novo emerged proteins relate to randomized proteins! @bornberglab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergence and evolution of protein-coding de novo genes - Nature Reviews Genetics

De novo gene evolution entails the birth of new genes from previously non-coding DNA. In this Review, Bornberg-Bauer and Eicholt overview how protein-coding de novo genes are identified, the mechanist...

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Bornberglab@bornberglab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New review out in Nat Rev Genet: Emergence & evolution of protein-coding de novo genes by Erich and Lars Eicholt @lacholt.bsky.social. How non-coding DNA becomes translated, persists or is lost in populations, and can yield structured/functional proteins—plus methods & open questions! rdcu.be/e09SM

Nature research paper: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup go.nature.com/486YtjW

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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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/...

Mitochondria finally made the headlines, yay! Oh wait, ... oh no ....

jen sometimes aph 🌻@bunnibytz.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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