Incoming assistant professor at University of Maryland, College Park • NSF PRFB postdoc • PhD from Bhattacharya lab @RutgersU • Passionate about algae / protists + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy • vanettenlab.org #NewPI
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Julia Van Etten
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For decades, cellular aggregation was considered an evolutionary dead end.
Cells could come together temporarily.
But complex multicellular organisms like animals?
Our study, led by JP Gerdt, with Ruibao & @jennahed.bsky.social suggests it may be time to rethink that🧵 #ProtistsOnSKy
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
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1/8 Inside your body lies something ancient.
Our @pnas.org paper uncovers the deep unicellular prehistory of blood cell types. See paper and video.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social
@prbb.org @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
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Who’s at #AbSciCon this week?
I dream to someday live in a world where algae has become so mainstream that google doesn’t change “phycology” to “psychology”.
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity
Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries
I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔
Gàlvez-Morante, Berney & Richter report the discovery of a novel lineage within Amoebozoa with intriguing behaviors like the “double-amoeba” and suggest that retention of gene function composition played a key role in shaping Amoebozoa evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag071
#evobio #molbio
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I shared on LinkedIn already, but I wanted to post here as well since I've got a different audience: I will be joining the Department of Plant Pathology at the @universityofga.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1!! I will keep studying #Aspergillus & #Fusarium that infect plants & humans 🥰
