Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea - Nature Reviews Microbiology The Asgard archaea have become a cornerstone of archaeal research, particularly for studies aiming to unravel the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes. This Review outlines the current state of th...

Just over ten years after the discovery of the first Asgard archaeal genomes, we revisit the rapid expansion of this remarkable archaeal lineage. From diverse genomes and metabolisms to eukaryotic signature proteins and the first cultured representatives.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read our review about the "Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea" in @natrevmicro.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

By @kassipan.bsky.social @stephkoe.bsky.social @micropat.bsky.social & @gerbenz.bsky.social

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A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.

The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life

Some of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social

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Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology In this Perspective, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.

🚨 New Perspectives article where, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.
🦠🧮 #MicroSky

@gibbological.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we @mib-wur.bsky.social are on strike against the budget cuts in higher education.
#StopTheCuts

Great Science from „home“ at the #KNVM2025 by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social from the #MPI-CEJena

This year the GRS will have a keynote from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and a mentorship panel with Simon Rittmann, @geosantiagom.bsky.social, Susanne Erdmann, and Yan Liao!
www.grc.org/archaea-ecol...

In case you missed it the GRC and GRS for Archaea 2025 are both open for applications! Join us in Switzerland for the latest iteration of this awesome conference! #archaeasky

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment The redox transformations of sulfur mean it is a key component of global biogeochemical cycles. This Review explores the sulfur cycle over geological time, including its role during major climate pert...

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊

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Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...). Expect occasional rants about academia, 🇳🇱 politics, life, etc.

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I am still to overwhelmed to get started again somehow.

Excited to have our review 'Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes' in the @NatureRevMicro special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woese and Fox's paper! With @anjspa1 @cstairs J. Lombard and @Ettema_lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.133

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624502v1 The cell cycle is a series of events that occur from the moment of cell birth to cell division. In e

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11....