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Studying kinetochores in African trypanosome (kinetoplastid) and marine plankton (diplonemid) in Edinburgh https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/akiyoshi
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Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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From Andreas Houben's group. Looks very interesting.

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New paper out! We discovered a tiny archaeon with the smallest known archaeal genome — only 238 kbp! Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile has almost no recognizable metabolic pathways and may rely heavily on a host to survive. It also represents a novel, deep-branching lineage in the archaeal tree.

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Two CENH3 paralogs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have a redundantly essential function and associate with ZeppL-LINE1 elements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... beautiful insights into the Chlamy LINE-based centromeres from the Umen and Dawe groups @corncolors.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Bill Earnshaw, my colleague and lab next door, on his election as a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences www.nasonline.org

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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 5th May.. Come join our team (thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on bacterial secretion systems. The position is funded by the Wellcome Trust. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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A blutorial on my latest manuscript, which will appear as a Hypothesis article in Journal of Cell Science (no embargo requested as far as I am aware). If you are interested in mitosis/meiosis/kinetochores/evolution/deep phylogeny, please read it (1/n)

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Correction: it turned out that this was a mistake by the journal (I am so relieved). But it does seem like reviews are not covered by Read and Publish agreement in some journals. Lots of pitfalls

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Hi, everyone! My name is Alex. I'm a microbiologist/cell biologist/biochemist, and I'm sharing some of my career biography today for #YoungScientistNetworking. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Open access options are so complicated these days. One thing I learned today in a hard way is that the "Read and Publish agreement" does not apply for review-type articles... And Wellcome does not pay OA fee for hybrid journals any more even if they have transformative status

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Exploring the chromatin proteome of Trypanosoma brucei repetitive elements (telomeres, centromeres, 70bp repeats, 177bp repeats) using TALEs. Another great collaboration with @allshire-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... by Corinna Benz et al. #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Working on under-studied organisms makes me feel stupid all the time. So many times I say "I don't know what I'm looking at"

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In this review, I write about why it is important to study synaptonemal complex protein evolution and highlight this with a few key examples of conserved features and unique adaptations.

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River Tay

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Archaeal SegAB forms a bipolar structure that promotes chromosome segregation in spherical cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.649018v1

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We support the scientific community - basically we're the good publisher who gives back which is why you should submit papers to our journals rather than supporting share holders!

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OMG IT IS OUT EUKARYOTIC HOPANOIDS DESERVE ALL CAPS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥 Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5) Please share!

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Spring in Edinburgh

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The 1st International Diplonemid Conference (iDIPCON) starting soon! idipcon.pythonanywhere.com

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

So proud of my dear friend Pleasantine Mill @cilialab.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert medal She gives an impassioned speech on the importance of community & connection, particularly during these precarious times If you can't read her slide, do see alt text #biologists100

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Excited to share our publication @lsajournal.org showing that divergent Plasmodium kinases drive MTOC, kinetochore and axoneme organisation during male gamete formation. Many thanks, @ritatewari.bsky.social, @davidguttery.bsky.social, @zeeshanm.bsky.social, Tony and David F. doi.org/10.26508/lsa...

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Countdown to an epic new pre-print. Mitochondria are cells within our cells. They need the same core activities - replication, transcription, translation. How do cells enable these diverse activities in both compartments? We uncover an unexpected + broad strategy with ancient origins. Stay tuned!

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