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fabianwittmers.bsky.social
Scientist || Marine Biologist BIOS-SCOPE Postdoc at Oregon State University in the Giovannoni Lab, working on DOM utilisation in SAR202 bacteria. Previously: Doctoral Student, single-cell genomics (Worden Lab)
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Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Happy to see a large chunk of my PhD work published today in Cell Host&Microbe: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... We conducted fluorescence-activated single-cell sorting of active predatory protists in the ocean and recovered symbionts with cool evolutionary positions close to animal pathogens.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

the third chapter of my PhD is now published! 🚨 We describe the protist symbiont diversity of the termite species Reticulitermes tibialis. This project was performed in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) which was super fun 😊 #protistsonsky authors.elsevier.com/a/1kaMa56A9x...

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

submitted 102 days ago • 6 comments

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

submitted 160 days ago • 2 comments

"Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean", in @currentbiology.bsky.social. The first paper out of my thesis work. Made possible with support from the BIOS-SCOPE project, funded by @simonsfoundation.org www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment