π Big congrats to Alessandro Culicchii, a post-doc in my team! Thanks to the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Mobility Fund, heβs heading to Paris to work with @luciebittner.bsky.social on bacteria and protist association networks in Masurian lakes, using #MicroDivEr data. Good luck!
#ProtistOnSky
Excited to be at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! Donβt miss Symposium #17: βUnicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions.β Registration is now open!
#protistsonsky
β¨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. ππ¬π
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
10 days till registration closes for the Workshop on Phylogenomics and Genome Evolution!
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𧬠Registration is open for the Phylogenomics Workshop in ΔeskΓ½ Krumlov!
Fantastic training opportunity for anyone working with genomic data and evolutionary questions.
Highly recommended - amazing course, great community, and a fantastic setting!
Excited to share our new work on nanopore metabarcoding β showing how it can be used for protists and combined with short reads!
Led by my PhD student MaΕgorzata ChwaliΕska, with our team at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social and @fabnot.bsky.social & Sarah Romac at @sbroscoff.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky
The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. π§¬π³ Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! π€ evomics.org/apply-worksh...
A proposal for journal accreditation systems to counter predatory practices. If funding agencies enforced these accreditations, predatory journals would quickly vanish.
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
β οΈNew paper β‘οΈ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.
π€―Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.
π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky
Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN π€© ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
π¨ Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (π
March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky π¦
Apply now to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, which will take place 11-24 January, in the beautiful town of ΔeskΓ½ Krumlov, Czechia. Deadline: 20th of October, but applicants will be informed on a rolling basis. Spread the word among colleagues! ππ½ββοΈ evomics.org/apply-worksh... #evomics2026
How do microbes become permanent partners? ππ¬π¦ Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms π¦ππͺ±π§¬ππͺ²
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
First stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Poland! ππ¦
We met with @ankarn.bsky.social (thank you! ππ») to exchange knowledge on bird schistosomes and swimmer's itch and, mainly, share our experience with water filtration and #eDNA detection. π§¬
The 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference is coming to Warsaw! Join us to share your research and connect with others in the field. Check out a fantastic lineup of invited speakers!
ποΈ Abstract submission deadline extended to May 31!
More info & registration π pec2025.biol.uw.edu.pl
#PEC2025
π’ Deadline extended to May 5!
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
π¨ Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - donβt miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes π¦ π¬
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Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
π More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Warsaw #DOKO event yesterday! It was wonderful to meet so many people keen to learn more about UW, its courses, and our student organisations π§ͺπ¦΄π¦ π¬
Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! π¦ π¬
More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Position as an Associate Professor in Zoology at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
I have a two year postdoc position in freshwater biodiversity and extreme evens open in my lab. Please share and apply!
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025
#protist #protistsonsky
protistologists.org/programs/fun...
πβ¨ Warmest Christmas wishes to our dear friends and collaborators! WesoΕych ΕwiΔ
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Hereβs a festive glimpse from our lab's Christmas event - celebrating the season together. Wishing you joy and success in the coming year! π
figure from the paper based on an evolutionary tree of a specific group of microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology
Taking advantage of the release of ClΓ©mence Boucher's 2nd paper on the toxins of the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum
doi.org/10.1016/j.al...
to promote also her first article on mixotrophy
doi.org/10.1016/j.ha...
with a cool video (2x speed) of Prymnesium phagocytosing a cryptophyte. #protistsonsky
We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.
More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...
Please apply and/or circulate π
electron and fluorescence microscopy pictures of complex microbial cells
Advanced genetic techniques & #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate + methanogen #symbiosis phys.org/news/2024-10...
Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host, habitat specific academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #protists by @micrott.bsky.social @symbiosisrox.bsky.social
Finally, some fantastic news for Polish science today!
The Prime Minister @donald-tusk.bsky.social and Minister of Finance @andrzej-domanski.bsky.social have announced a 500 million PLN top-up for π΅π± Poland's major research grant agency, @ncngovpl.bsky.social, in 2025!
