NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Keeling Lab @ UBC studying marine protistan symbionts. Previously: del Campo Lab & Coral Reef Futures Lab 🐠🪸🌊🧬 He/Him 🏳️🌈
Website: https://abonacolta.github.io/
Anthony M. Bonacolta
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Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.
ISME is proud to launch ISME Host Microbe, a new fully open-access journal that provides a home for cutting-edge research on host-microbe interactions with particular emphasis on host-associated microbiome studies — spanning from environmental to clinical systems.
Learn more: academic.oup.com/ismehm
10/10
Perhaps aggregation is not an evolutionary dead end after all!
Perhaps it was one of the evolutionary experiments from which animal multicellularity emerged.
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@icreacommunity.bsky.social
#AnimalOrigins #Evolution #Multicellularity
Nature - A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins
After the record-smashing warm years of 2023 and 2024 for ocean temperatures across the tropical Atlantic, we've perhaps become numb to just how warm it still is in 2026.
As of May, it's the 3rd-warmest on record, going back to 1850 (2024 was 1st, 2023 was 2nd, 2025 was 4th).
It’s out! There are so many fun back stories with this project’s origin story & how it reshaped my career trajectory.
For now, plz welcome my lab’s culture collection of #Symbiodiniaceae associated bacteria! & the many siderophores they produce! 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
Geoff McFadden
Going to #ASMicrobe this week?
Swing by one of my *three* poster presentations!
Or reach out if you'd like to chat experimental evolution, microbial communities, phages, host immunity, or growth curves!
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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
A potential link between the gut microbes of a fish and global ocean processes, offering new insight into how marine ecosystems help regulate ocean chemistry and the marine carbon cycle.
Our method, savont, for generating amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) for long-read amplicons is now on bioRxiv.
Work with @lh3lh3.bsky.social and help from @mkddueholm.bsky.social and team (Marie Riisgaard-Jensen, @kirk3gaard.bsky.social, Kasper Skytte Andersen)
github.com/bluenote-157...
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For long 16S nanopore amplicons (R10.4, sup-basecalled), savont requires 5-16x less depth for capturing ASVs. This improvement is more stark for longer amplicons (e.g. rRNA operon).
For HiFi, savont + existing ASV methods are comparable, although savont misses a few intragenomic 16S copies. 4/6
Our new paper co-led with BGI and IOCAS (Qingdao) just out
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
The genetic repertoire of deep-sea #microbiome: from sequence to structure and function.
@norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A fish–microbe partnership may produce minerals that help shape the marine carbon cycle
Abstract. Nutritional exchanges fuel the evolutionary and ecological dominance of multi-partner symbioses among reef-building corals and microbial associat
