Javier del Campo

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microbiome

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The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project.
Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes.
Time to change that. 🚀✨
Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/
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Thanks to all co-authors including my undergraduate mentee Kay Li (first pub!), as well as @fonamental.bsky.social & @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social! Thanks also to @sicb.bsky.social for supporting this symposium article 🙌

Endosymbiotic Apicomplexans of Marine Holobionts: Microbial Parasites in a Warming Ocean Synopsis. Apicomplexans are a large group of protists, including several species of major medical importance, most notably those which cause malaria and to

If you're looking for some fun weekend reading, check out our recent review on marine apicomplexans, out now in ICB (@sicbjournals.bsky.social)! #ProtistsOnSky

Los corales también duermen por la noche Los llaman los "arquitectos de los ecosistemas marinos" porque sus arrecifes sirven de cobijo a muchísimas especies. También duermen de noche como los humanos.

¿Sabías que los corales también duermen por la noche? 🪸

🎧 Javier del Campo (@fonamental.bsky.social) habla de su investigación en el @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social en 📻Españoles en la mar.

#DescifrandoEvolución
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HiMBar: A High-Fidelity Metagenomic Barcoding Approach for Transkingdom Species Detection and Interaction Analysis in Aquatic Ecosystems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Heat-stressed #corals and the important role of picoplankton-derived nitrogen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protists #microbiome

Brain corals (Pseudodiploria strigosa). Credit to Brad Weiler and Javier del Campo.

✅ For the first time, it has been observed in situ that "sleep" helps maintain the host-microbe balance in very primitive organisms, a mechanism that could be extremely ancient in animal evolution.

Research team diving during sampling off the island of Curaçao (Caribbean Sea). Credit to Brad Weiler and Javier del Campo.

🌙 When the sun sets, corals recover from the stress accumulated during the day, caused by the intense activity of their symbiotic microorganisms. 💤

#DiscoveringLife
#ConservingBiodiversity

👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.01.004

: Coral reef off the island of Curaçao (Caribbean Sea) with brain corals (Pseudodiploria strigosa). Credit to Brad Weiler and Javier del Campo.

Corals sleep like us, but their symbiosis does not rest🪸

📕 A research team from the @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social has discovered that corals rest at night despite not having a nervous system, while their microbes remain active.🧵

#UnravellingEvolution

👉https://shorturl.at/qx9K6

Really awesome work led by @bradweilerdives.bsky.social looking at the transcriptomic & microbial patterns of a coral holobiont every 6 hours for 3 days! 🪸 🦠 🇨🇼 🤿

Out now in Cell Host & Microbe! 📘

Author share-link here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mWb66t8JE...

This project was so fun thanks to @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social through the lack of sleep during those 6 hr interval dives over 3 days. Massive thank you to everyone involved, including CARMABI marine station in Curaçao, our collaborators, and @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social

Despite a relatively stable microbiome, we reveal that microbial co-occurrence networks shift between daytime carbohydrate catabolism and nighttime methylotrophy, indicating metabolic hand-offs across domains of life within the holobiont. #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

To help reduce the annotation gap of functional assignment in non-model organisms like corals, we supplemented our host gene ontology enrichment terms using protT5 protein language model to predict functions for poorly annotated proteins, adding more context beyond standard homology-based pipelines.

We uncover transcriptional rhythms in the coral, including dawn initiated RNA biosynthesis, midday & dusk regulation of phosphate metabolism, and midnight activation of stress and repair pathways. Breviolum sp. displays tightly regulated cell cycle dynamics and nutrient transport oscillations.

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 We present a system-level molecular framework of natural diel regulation in the stony coral P. strigosa, integrating host & symbiodiniaceae transcriptomics with microbiome dynamics over 6hr intervals. Amazing to publish this PhD work @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/TzYEr

DeepKOALA: A Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Framework for KEGG Orthology Assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ColabPCR: A validated Google Colaboratory Notebook for Reproducible and Precise Primer Design www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to have contributed to the #protists section of this @ergabiodiv.bsky.social whitepaper 👉 From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Comparative analysis of organismal trait variation in benthic cnidarians link.springer.com/article/10.1... #corals

Genetic modification in dinoflagellate algae: Some successes, many failures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists

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Our lab opens 2 PhD positions to investigate fungi's evolution: #Barcelona

Wet lab in Biochemistry/Structural Biology of cryo-tolerant fungi
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Computational in Physical Chemistry of cellular processes under extrem environments
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Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #protists

Single-cell phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists #symbionts

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The mycobiome of Cassiopea xamachana as determined by culture-based and metagenomic sequencing link.springer.com/article/10.1... #holobiont #symbiosis

Eukan: a fully automated nuclear genome annotation pipeline for less studied and divergent eukaryotes academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... #protists

Thanks to all our collaborators and funders, with a special shoutout to the @univmiami.bsky.social Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing (IDSC) to making this all possible! @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social