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🧪 NSF GRFP update! New graduate NSF fellowships will likely be announced this week for the GRFP (see bottom of 🧵 for why). First off, I'm very glad to hear of those going forward, given the otherwise bleak year so far for graduate training. Some observations... 1/12

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Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky

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"Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building" by Solenne Ithurbide, Nicole Buan & Stefan Schulze. rdcu.be/efZTL @nbuan.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky

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The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) reclassifies Group B 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 as its own genus: 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘪 I knew this was possible (e.g. 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 used to be Group D 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴) but still caught me by surprise Cool they are honoring Rebecca Lancefield!

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Congratulations 🎉 Kop et al : High diversity of nitrifying bacteria and archaea in biofilms from a subsea tunnel #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

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Our global study shows #peatlands in both their wet and dry extremes capture greenhouse gases while soil bacterial and archaeal abundances are low. Peatlands with moderate moisture levels globally emit #CO2 and #N2O gases, while #bacteria and #archaea flourish. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92891-z

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Previously characterized OLD family ATPases-nucleases participate in anti-virus defense (abortive infection, Gabija, retrons, PARIS). A new class of #archaeal OLD family enzymes is instead implicated in cell cycle control. New work from the group of Yulong Shen. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Archaeal diversity in the #microbiomes of four wild bird species. 🐦🦠 Hunter et al. Microbiology Spectrum. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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From the @commsbio.bsky.social journal | Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building | #Bioinformatics #FAIR #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Asgard Archaea May Hold the Key to the Origins of Eukaryotic Life A group of single-celled organisms known as Asgard archaea has drawn scientific attention for its potential link to the evolution of complex life. These microbes were first identified through gene fragments in deep-sea sediments.…

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The #UConn Microbial Ecophysiology Lab congratulates MSc. Isis Del Mazo-Monsalvo on her publication! MSc. Isis is an expert in metabolism & enzymes, and she is now using these skills to investigate the biology of #methane-producing microbes (#methanogens) in the human gut.

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Cometabolism of ferrihydrite reduction and methyl-dismutating methanogenesis by Methanosarcina mazei. #methanogens #methane #archaea @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Asgard archaea hold the key to the origin of microtubules in eukaryotes. A milestone study highlights the fact that having a microbial culture is crucial for groundbreaking discoveries. @CellCellPress #tubulin #evolution #archaea #cytoskeleton www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Innovations in the electron transport chain fuel archaeal methane metabolism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Comprehensive nucleoside analysis of archaeal RNA modification profiles reveals an m7G in the conserved P loop of 23S rRNA

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#2 out of 3 bfu family bifurcating structure with our CryoEM collaborators. Cryo-EM Structures Define the Electron Bifurcating Flavobicluster and Ferredoxin Binding Site in an Archaeal Nfn-Bfu Transhydrogenase - Journal of Biological Chemistry www.jbc.org/article/S002...

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Microtubules in Asgard archaea @cellpress.bsky.social @pilhoferlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Are there really no archaeal pathogens? microbiologysociety.org/blog/why-don...

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Rahhh… archaea are so cool!

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Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form of microbes.

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Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

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A great day for #teamtomo First, @cellarchlab.com shows the beauty of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... ... and now my colleagues @florianwollweber.bsky.social & @xujwet.bsky.social visualized tubulins in Asgard archaea 😍🤯 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Fantastic paper! Excited to dive into the details, and great to see some U-ExM on Asgard archaea! Huge congrats to the entire team! 👏🎉"

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Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Our archaeal origins!!😍 First Loki actin, now Loki microtubules. More amazing #CryoET of Asgardians by @florianwollweber.bsky.social @pilhoferlab.bsky.social & friends. This is going right into my @biozentrum.unibas.ch Intro Cell Bio lecture on eukaryogenesis. Textbook material! 🧪🧶🧬🌊 #ArcheaSky

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Microtubules in Asgard archaea 🤩🤩 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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In a new episode of do we come from Asgard archaea?? -- microtubules!! 🚇 Congrats dream team @florianwollweber.bsky.social and @xujwet.bsky.social!!

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🦠 Have you heard about the Asgardians? Not the Marvel ones, but the archaea that may have been our distant ancestors. A study now finds another hint (microtubules) that Asgardians may have been a bridge toward complex life... (More on Asgardians: subtlesparks.substack.com/p/the-battle...) #science

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Cryo-EM Structures Define the Electron Bifurcating Flavobicluster and Ferredoxin Binding Site in an Archaeal Nfn-Bfu Transhydrogenase pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40107619/ #cryoEM

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Methane-Eating Bacteria & Archaea are Helping Save Us from the Ravages of Climate Change open.substack.com/pub/robmoir4...

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Loki’s ever the trickster, but thankfully Thor knows how to put him in his place #ArchaeaSky #Asgard #comics #comedy

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And now to something completely different: the response of an anaerobic archaeon to oxidative stress. Tubular nanocompartments encapsulate virus-like particles! Great work by Wenfei Song and many colleagues from @bijvoet-centre.bsky.social and @mib-wur.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Advancing #anaerobic microbial studies with in situ Raman spectroscopy: #Methanogenic #archaea as a model #methane www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Now online! Microtubules in Asgard archaea

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Please share with your trainees and encourage them to provide information. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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We had an amazing and sunny ☀️ day today with Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social who visited us at #embl! It was a wonderful talk on archaeal cell biology, and lots of inspiring discussions! Thank you for sharing your insights with us! #Archaea

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My lab at NYU is hiring a postdoc in microbial ecology and evolution! We are looking for someone interested in both wet and dry lab techniques, including experimental evolution, genome editing, bioinformatics, and some modeling. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164683

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#proudPI day! My PhD student Maider Echeveste Medrano handed in her printed PhD thesis today on the stress physiology of #anaerobic #methanotrophoc #archaea @ribesresearch.bsky.social co-supervised w/ @msmjetten.bsky.social Irene Sanchez Andrea

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#archaeasky New work from @drym.bsky.social

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Diversity and environmental distribution of Asgard archaea in shallow saline sediments www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

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Just announced #MVIF 37 on Microbiomes in Extreme Environments! Don't miss this special event w/our guests 🇩🇪 Nicole Dublier 🇳🇱 Henk Bolhuis 🇺🇸 Rachael Morgan-Kiss 🇺🇸 Kasthuri Venkateswaran 🇮🇹 Fabiana Canini 🇺🇸 Diana Ayala-Muñoz 🇮🇹 Luca Tonietti cassyni.com/s/mvif-37

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TODAY ⚠️Note for some parts of the #MVIF community: we will start one hour earlier due to daylight saving time beginning in the USA! Check your local starting time www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...

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Exciting work studying the chemical bonds in membrane lipids of #archaea (#marine #microbes) which are often used for #paleoclimate reconstructions suggests improvements to #temperature reconstructions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Yay! Another victory for #archaeal membrane-spanning tetraether #lipids as paleothermometers! Zhou and Dong (2025) EPSL: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... 🧪 With implications for ⚒️ 🌊 and #PaleoSky #TeamArchaea #GDGTs #iGDGTs #isoGDGTs

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Archaeal SMCs organize Thermococcus kodakarensis genome into TAD-like domains via DNA loop extrusion, influenced by TrmBL2. Insights into chromosomal structuring! #GenomicDiscovery PMID:39971902, Nat Commun 2025, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56197-y #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNAsky 🧪

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Archaea Alert! We're just one day away from our next APH session! First up, @cjhines.bsky.social will tell us about his exciting work to uncover the elusive last step of coenzyme M biosynthesis and to demonstrate its effectiveness as an antioxidant!! Make sure to tune in on March 12th, 11AM EST!!

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Second up on Wednesday, March 12th, we'll have Priyanka Chatterjee talk to us about her intriguing research into quorum sensing in the salty Haloferax volcanii, identifying many key players in this cellular communication response in archaea! Check your email for the Zoom link!

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Happy to have played a small role in this work from Laura Lehtovirta-Morley’s lab. Distinct Patterns of Antibiotic Sensitivities in Ammonia-Oxidising Archaea enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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