Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
You saw them first on @bioRxiv.
Now they’re out in print—back-to-back.
Meet AVRcap1b: the two-faced immunosuppressor from the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
Here is some weekend reading for you
👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our special green issue, chokeful of reviews and short-format introductory pieces on plant #evolution!
🌱🌿🌵🍃 #Plants
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding
www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
"Humbled to receive this recognition. This belongs as much to my team, my family, & to my home, Palestine: the people, the place, the joyful stubbornness to enjoy life."
Cheers buddy @gautamdey.bsky.social
Thx to my mentors @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social, & Pierre Gönczy.
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.
📣 A new preprint by noashima.bsky.social! 📣 How does ocean warming affect viral infection? Infection of algae by a giant virus is arrested intracellularly under elevated temperature, with the late replication stage blocked. Infection can later resume, revealing a reversible arrest state 🌊
Long-term aggregation induced by bacteria in the filasteran Ministeria, with increased mating frequency inside aggregates. Truly remarkable observations by JP Gerdt, @multicellgenome.bsky.social and team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genes for genetic painting in flowers now available on Addgene!: addgene.org/browse/artic...
Ocean warming is expected to reshape microbial interactions and community composition, with profound consequences for marine biogeochemical cycles. Host virus dynamics are central to these processes, ...
www.biorxiv.org
Nature - A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
