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lauraeme.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist interested in the origin and early diversification of eukaryotes. Phylogenetics/(meta)genomics. Protists & Archaea. Reseach Director at Uni Paris-Saclay (France)/Associate Prof. Uni of Rhode Island (USA)
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New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

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Check out exciting protist research in JEM! Holly Moeller et al. explore the feeding habits of Mesodinium rubrum and provide a tool for studying its cell biology and photophysiology in their open access paper in our March/April issue! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

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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 80 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

🧬🧪🦠🧫 @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @rkoszul.bsky.social @leameneu.bsky.social @christophechapard.bsky.social @chromozz.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @institutcurie.bsky.social + PS www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... @gfudenberg.bsky.social @vram142.bsky.social

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Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n

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Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

submitted 116 days ago • 19 comments

Fun little Q&A! Thank you for the opportunity Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

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[RDV 16h !] #LUCA, le dernier ancêtre commun à tous les êtres vivants. De quelle nature est-il ? A quand peut-on le dater et comment ? Quel a été son impact sur son environnement ? tinyurl.com/25jhs4pa avec Guillaume Lecointre et Purificacion Lopez Garcia

submitted 146 days ago • 3 comments

NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig) OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6 🧵 1/8

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📢Call for Papers!📢 Applied and Environmental Microbiology is actively seeking submissions on the topic Anaerobic Microbiology. We welcome reviews and new research insights into strict and facultative anaerobes (archaea, bacteria, eukarya, viruses). Learn more: journals.asm.org/journal/aem/...

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Please share! Applications due Dec 15th for a starting date in Sep 2025.

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment

Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the biggest puzzles in biology 🧩 As genomic data expand, painting a clear picture of LECA requires analytical resources and a commitment to data sharing. This paper led by T. R. emphasizes a community-driven approach to tackle this complexity.

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments

This really is an excellent paper. It shows that plastid protein import machinery can be inherited through serial transfer, and that we should not expect additional membranes in tertiary plastids. In other words, serial transfers got easier to explain www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 191 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s the updated Computational Biology Starter Pack! Let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/QVPoZXp

submitted 189 days ago • 81 comments

Symbiosis nerds! Some of you might have seen a smattering of recent posts about papers in PLoS Biology, but it's worth looking at the entire special issue, called Symbiosis Across the Tree of Life (edited by Richards and Moran). There are so many interesting reviews, comments, etc. type things here!

submitted 405 days ago • 3 comments

Greetings to new followers! For those with only a sketchy, starter-pack sense of me, here's a quick run-down. I write about life for the New York Times. Today is the 20th anniversary of my 1st story there! I write on evolution, genomes, pandemics, brains, etc. www.nytimes.com/by/carl-zimmer 1/8

submitted 190 days ago • 9 comments

#Pfam #hmmer #LLMs #ProteinDomains www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Want to learn about the evolution of brown algae as derived from 60 new genomes? Exciting results of the Phaeoexplorer project: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Microbial people! Especially postdocs and maybe some assistant professors who are feeling antsy ... the University of Montana is doing a search for a microbiologist! This is a great department, in a great place. (I worked there for 10 years, loved it, ping me with Qs) apply.interfolio.com/159494

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment

If you... like me... have found a lot of cool/relevant starter packs only to lose them again, here is a really useful tool - search starter packs: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... 🧪

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

I've imported all my posts from X using blueark.app, which seems to have worked well! (except it doesn't import any of the comments and reactions, so it makes you look a little bit like you're talking to yourself 😅)

submitted 194 days ago • 2 comments

Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack! Help build community with this starter pack. This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that! go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU

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