Congratulations to my and @apapageorgiou.bsky.social 's PhD student, @microbiodnz.bsky.social, for winning both travel award and poster prize at the #VAAM2026 @vaam-microbes.bsky.social conference. Thanks to the organizers and more about archaeal HU proteins coming soon.
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.
New WhereDoGGo? version online, now with balanced taxon sampling and new marker sets (among others).
github.com/MEDEAlab/Whe...
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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
