Just over ten years after the discovery of the first Asgard archaeal genomes, we revisit the rapid expansion of this remarkable archaeal lineage. From diverse genomes and metabolisms to eukaryotic signature proteins and the first cultured representatives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea - Nature Reviews Microbiology

The Asgard archaea have become a cornerstone of archaeal research, particularly for studies aiming to unravel the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes. This Review outlines the current state of th...

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Read our review about the "Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea" in @natrevmicro.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... By @kassipan.bsky.social @stephkoe.bsky.social @micropat.bsky.social & @gerbenz.bsky.social

Kassiani Panagiotou@kassipan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just over ten years after the discovery of the first Asgard archaeal genomes, we revisit the rapid expansion of this remarkable archaeal lineage. From diverse genomes and metabolisms to eukaryotic signature proteins and the first cultured representatives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A. Murat Eren (Meren)@merenbey.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org

Felix Mikus@fmikus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Over the last two weeks the Dudin Lab expanded two-fold and it’s been a blast! We are hosting a group of amazing visitors that stopped by with their own species and samples to get started with expansion microscopy. It was a ton of fun, very much looking forward to pictures to come ❤️ #ExpandThemAll

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Some of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social

The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life

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Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

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🚨 New Perspectives article where, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research. 🦠🧮 #MicroSky @gibbological.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.

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Today we @mib-wur.bsky.social are on strike against the budget cuts in higher education. #StopTheCuts

Great Science from „home“ at the #KNVM2025 by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social from the #MPI-CEJena

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First Keynote talk at #KNVM2025 by Martin Kaltenpoth @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social (from @mpi-ce.bsky.social in Jena) on insect-microbe symbiosis

This year the GRS will have a keynote from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and a mentorship panel with Simon Rittmann, @geosantiagom.bsky.social, Susanne Erdmann, and Yan Liao! www.grc.org/archaea-ecol...

In case you missed it the GRC and GRS for Archaea 2025 are both open for applications! Join us in Switzerland for the latest iteration of this awesome conference! #archaeasky

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

The redox transformations of sulfur mean it is a key component of global biogeochemical cycles. This Review explores the sulfur cycle over geological time, including its role during major climate pert...

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Not new here but will become more active at @bsky.app (I am no longer active on X) Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...). Expect occasional rants about academia, 🇳🇱 politics, life, etc. My research group: go.bsky.app/MzZPftE

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Excited to have our review 'Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes' in the @NatureRevMicro special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woese and Fox's paper! With @anjspa1 @cstairs J. Lombard and @Ettema_lab https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.133

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624502v1

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624502v1

The cell cycle is a series of events that occur from the moment of cell birth to cell division. In e

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