Was so grateful to be able to work with one of THE cryoEM gurus in Debnath Ghosal on this journey...taking this work to the next level to go from inference to actually seeing interactions with our novel Asgards. Holding up a mirror to perhaps what their microbial ancestors did on an early Earth....
Brendan Burns
One of biggest mysteries in biology: how did complex eukaryotic cells evolve from simple microbes? ~1.8 billion years ago, an archaeal cell likely merged with a bacterium to form the first eukaryotic cell, but can we ever find direct evidence of this transformative event? 🦠 🚶♂️
