Postdoctoral Researcher @UBC in Patrick Keeling's Lab || PhD earned @ASU in Gillian Gile's Lab || Interested in endosymbiosis, plastid evolution, marine microbial ecology, and all things protists 🦠
The Life of Retaria:
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Nicole Coots
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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.
New #ISEPpapers by @deemteam.bsky.social! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from predation to osmotrophy through co-option of bacterial genes and their mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote HGT"
#Protists
it has been a real pleasure to co-run the Life of Retaria with such a lovely group of organizers 💕Happy two years of the Life of Retaria Seminar Series!!!! 🎉 it feels right that our paper should come out around the anniversary!
((reposting partially because those are two REALLY cool speakers, so that'll be totally awesome 🤯 but also partially sharing because that dino video is stunning!!!!!! 💕))
In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:
We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series!
check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
If you want to read a cool story today, look no further:
A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New Discovery Report in PLOS Biology (@plosbiology.org)! Here we provide evidence that symbiotic bacteria within fish guts may play an important and overlooked role in the oceanic carbon cycle! doi.org/10.1371/jour... #MicroSky #SymbioSky #MicrobiomeSky
@ambonacolta.bsky.social and I co-hosted (and gave talks in) a special symposium for @protistologyopen.bsky.social today. It was super fun to put this together, & glad all of these amazing scientists were able to join us!! @mixotrophe.bsky.social
Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Marine fish play a significant yet understudied role in the oceanic carbon cycle through the production of calcium carbonate precipitates. This study of the gulf toadfish gut reveals a high abundance ...
Multinucleate cells — single cells containing multiple nuclei in a shared cytoplasm — are found across the eukaryotic tree of life. Having evolved ind…
Our next DinoSphere seminar will be June 18th at 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CEST hosting Jana Pilátová and @gracezhong.bsky.social
🪱 Grace Zhong: Symbiont mobility in a dinoflagellate–acoel worm symbiosis
🪩 Jana Pilátová: Eyespots as photonic mirrors in Symbiodiniaceae
More details on tinyurl.com/43uckr2w!
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The first paper from #theLifeOfRetaria is out!
doi.org/10.1002/bies...
This was a very fun and enriching process, as it has been the last 2 years of our Seminar Series 🤩
#protistsonsky
Gautam Dey
Manon Demulder
We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series!
check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Miguel Méndez Sandín
Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...
