Nika Pende
@nikapende.bsky.social
Microbiologist & Independent Postdoc at University of Vienna. Working on cell and chromosome biology in non-model archaea (and bacteria) 🦠 Loves 🔬 & diving 🦀 🐠 🐙
really enjoying the @fusionconf.bsky.social on prokaryotic cell biology. Great talks and great people 🥰
Fusion Conferences@fusionconf.bsky.social · 3w agoFantastic Prokaryotic Cell Biologists and where to find them! A truly lovely set of researchers, making huge progress and discoveries in their field. We hope you've all enjoyed the first 2 days, with plenty more to come. #ProkaryoticCellBio
Super cool new preprint by my big brother Marko Pende 🥰
@voigtvision.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 New Preprint! 🚨: A new method for quantifying #tissue #clearing and a next-get #lightsheet #Microscope - the #mesoSPIM ultra by Marko Pende, @jcregg.bsky.social, @murawalalab.bsky.social @mdibl.org & many more! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Github: github.com/mesoSPIM/mes...
Excited to share our new preprint led by Fred and me in collaboration with the archaeal community! We found that the molecular foundation of histone-based chromatin has pre-eukaryotic roots in Asgard archaea. (1/4) #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Emergence of histone-based chromatin complexity in Asgard archaea
The emergence of the eukaryotes coincided with the diversification of histone proteins and their post-translational modifications by enzymes that constitute the core of eukaryotic chromatin. Yet the e...
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Super cool Cryo-EM!
Svetlana Dodonova@dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcited to share our new preprint! 🧬❄️ by brilliant @mdreimann.bsky.social and great collaborators! Using cryo-ET&EM, we reveal archaeal chromatin in a near-native state: variable-beads-on-a-string fibers shaped by growth phase and histone composition #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Science communication from my group coming up on the 19th of May - Pint of Science 🍺 Cheers ☺️ pintofscience.at/event/zusamm...
Zusammen stark: Interaktionen zwischen Lebewesen
Von Pilzen im Wald bis Mikroben im Darm, Lebewesen sind erstaunlich vernetzt! Zwei Forschende zeigen, wie Pflanzen und Pilze zusammenarbeiten und welche Ro...
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Exploring the role of gut methanogenic archaea in childhood stunting in Aceh Province, Indonesia #microbiology #methanogens #GutMicrobiota #microbiome #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Active virus-host system in a Lokiarchaeon culture | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705702v1?rss=1
Active virus-host system in a Lokiarchaeon culture
Asgard archaea are considered the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes and having a crucial role in eukaryogenesis. Only few organisms have been cultivated from this group and their viruses were previously described only through metagenomic reconstructions. Here, we report the first successful cultivation of an Asgard archaeal virus infecting a novel strain of Ca. Lokiarchaeum ossiferum B36. The 16 kbp integrated provirus is capable to excise and replicate independently leading to the formation of virus particles. Network analysis of shared protein clusters with other archaeal viruses places it in a new family, Fylgjaviridae . The host encodes a distinctive repertoire of antiviral defense systems, including Septu, Wadjet, and type II CBASS system, all different from the defense systems of the related strain Ca. L. ossiferum B35. Our cultures provide the first opportunity to study interactions of a virus-host system in Asgards and hold significant potential for developing genetic tools. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. FWF Austrian Science Fund, 10.55776/EFP25, Z437 European Research Council, Advanced Grant #695192: TACKLE Max Planck Society, https://ror.org/01hhn8329
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Live cell imaging of Ca. Nha. antarcticus and Hrr. lacusprofundi using agarose pads. Protocol now live! www.archaea.bio/protocols/li...
Live Cell Imaging of Ca. Nha. antarcticus and Hrr. lacusprofundi using agarose pads
This protocol is an adapted form of the protocol developed for imaging haloarchaea (Liao et al., 2021) and subsequently applied to co-cultures containing nanohaloarchaea and haloarchaea (Hamm et al., ...
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Very nice work! Congrats to @syncellbiolab.bsky.social and all the authors 🥳
Saravanan Palani@syncellbiolab.bsky.social · 12mo agoThrilled to see our work published in @embojournal.org #asgard #archaea #cytoskeleton #tubulin #FtsZ We sincerely appreciate the constructive peer review and the reviewers’ thoughtful, supportive feedback, which greatly strengthened our work.
So happy that I could contribute to this nice paper and to see it finally out now! Special congrats to @dbaquero.bsky.social and @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🥳
Diana Baquero@dbaquero.bsky.social · last yr.Here are the link to both studies: Weinberger et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Baquero et al., Nat Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On our new episode of Archaeacast, Priyanka and I cover the Archaea we carry with us every day. Followed by a brilliant interview w/ @chmoei.bsky.social discussing a correlation between Archaeal populations and BMI, the absence of pathogenic Archaea, & more! #SciSky #AcademicSky #Microbiology #Life
Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains? | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our sixth episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Dr. Connor Hines discuss the archaea that are very close to home–the ones that can live in and on us! In the second part...
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Excited to announce the EMBO Conference: Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026! Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.
Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky
BF Francis Ouellette@bffo.bsky.social · last yr.From the @commsbio.bsky.social journal | Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building | #Bioinformatics #FAIR #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
