Panagiotis (Panos) Adam 🐐

To everyone who came to chat about the doggo at
#mbkceesme2025, much thank. Y'all did us a many happy. 🐕

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Check out this awesome work by Strock et al. on how Archaea can turn nasty against Bacteria. Very honored for the opportunity to spread their story in a primer with @apapageorgiou.bsky.social.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Let's see, I don't recall any Nezhaarchaeales in YNP or a class named "Methanonezhaarchaeia".

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paste below or dm me or @gkolyfetis.bsky.social.

We're making a new WhereDoGGo logo.
After discussions, we decided to stop using the ASCII art representation of a certain Shiba Inu.

Please send us portraits of your doggos, so we can generate a new logo. The plan is to rotate with every major version.

Release WhereDoGGo_v20241212 · MEDEAlab/WhereDoGGo Changelog Major update. Despite our best efforts, there might be some bugs, please give us a heads up. Tested on ARM Apple machines and adapted some Shell scripts accordingly. Genome picking (dogg...

New WhereDoGGo? version online, now with balanced taxon sampling and new marker sets (among others).
github.com/MEDEAlab/Whe...

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KiTE - Kiel Training for Excellence: A postdoc career development programme Interested to build your career in a multidisciplinary research environment? The KiTE - Kiel Training for Excellence programme offers funding for eight open-topic postdoc projects (36 months) in Kiel,...

Obligatory link:
www.uni-kiel.de/en/research/...

3-year postdoc opportunity at the MEDEA Lab (yours truly) through the Kiel University KiTE program. Interests include: microbial ecology of early Earth analogs, evolution of metabolism, resolving the tree of life, algorithm development.

Please spread the word. Project submission deadline: March 31.

Much thank to everyone that helped realize this step, esp. Tal Dagan and @daganlab.bsky.social, @alexjprobst.bsky.social and @probstlab.bsky.social. 4/4

PhD positions will be available in the future. If you're a student at CAU Kiel, come ask around. And if you're starting a postdoc and looking to apply for a fellowship or funding, I'd be glad to host. 3/4

The MEDEA lab (Microbial Ecology, Diversity, Evolution, and Astrobiology; after the mythological sorceress and the Medea hypothesis) will focus on the tree of life, metabolic & community evolution in early-Earth and planetary analog environments, and algorithm development. 2/4

New office! I can finally announce that I'm starting a new position next month as junior group leader at the Institute of General Microbiology at CAU Kiel. 1/4