Congratulations to my and @apapageorgiou.bsky.social 's PhD student, @microbiodnz.bsky.social, for winning both travel award and poster prize at the #VAAM2026 @vaam-microbes.bsky.social conference. Thanks to the organizers and more about archaeal HU proteins coming soon.

To everyone who came to chat about the doggo at #mbkceesme2025, much thank. Y'all did us a many happy. 🐕

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic@svetlanaup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just learned about the WhereDoGGo presented by @precambriangoat.bsky.social 👏 github.com/MEDEAlab/Whe... #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

George Kolyfetis@gkolyfetis.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out this awesome work by Strock et al. on how Archaea can turn nasty against Bacteria. Very honored for the opportunity to spread their story in a primer with @apapageorgiou.bsky.social. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Tobias Warnecke@tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it? Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're making a new WhereDoGGo logo. After discussions, we decided to stop using the ASCII art representation of a certain Shiba Inu. Please send us portraits of your doggos, so we can generate a new logo. The plan is to rotate with every major version.

New WhereDoGGo? version online, now with balanced taxon sampling and new marker sets (among others). github.com/MEDEAlab/Whe...

Release WhereDoGGo_v20241212 · MEDEAlab/WhereDoGGo

Changelog Major update. Despite our best efforts, there might be some bugs, please give us a heads up. Tested on ARM Apple machines and adapted some Shell scripts accordingly. Genome picking (dogg...

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3-year postdoc opportunity at the MEDEA Lab (yours truly) through the Kiel University KiTE program. Interests include: microbial ecology of early Earth analogs, evolution of metabolism, resolving the tree of life, algorithm development. Please spread the word. Project submission deadline: March 31.

New office! I can finally announce that I'm starting a new position next month as junior group leader at the Institute of General Microbiology at CAU Kiel. 1/4