REMAG: recovery of eukaryotic genomes from metagenomic data using contrastive learning

At 14.15 Postdoctoral Researcher Daniel Gómez Pérez will introduce REMAG - a new binning tool for #metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) to enable the recovery of complex eukaryotic #genomes, such as fungi and protists, directly from environment data.

Read Daniel's preprint here: buff.ly/CJgp6rq

Genomic uniqueness in the genus Bodo. Species tree inferred by STAG. Tree scale is substitutions per site.

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts. Published Open Access and fee-free in MGen using a Publish and Read agreement: https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001642 #PublishandRead #MGen

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free-living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Genus Bodo is considered the closest free-living lineage to the parasitic lineages Trypa...

So nice to see this out in print, and thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for the smooth publish process! Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts - www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected protist diversity Scientists have revealed previously unknown diversity from a group of free-living protists closely related to the parasites that cause sleeping sickness.

🆕 Researchers from the Earlham Institute and @biology.ox.ac.uk developing #singlecell pipelines for #protist sequencing have discovered three previously unrecognised lineages of the protist Bodo, each with its own bacterial endosymbiont.

@neilhall.bsky.social | @sallywarring.bsky.social 💻🧬🦠

That’s so cool. Are they symbionts? Can you do this for symbionts?

What are the blue things? Bacteria?

Adding this to my to do list now

Wow! We have C. paradoxa in culture too but I’ve never seen this.

Thank you!

Thank you @zlatogursky.bsky.social and @thealgaeman.bsky.social. Sorry, 40x objective is best I’ve got at hand.

Some creatures we’ve isolated from soil recently. If you recognise any of these let me know! #protistsonsky

Microscopy image of Euglena

Three transparent sample containers filled with cloudy water in shades of yellow, green, and brown.

Microscopy image of Phacus, a flat, teardrop-shaped protist

🦠 Neither plant, animal, nor fungi: protists are beautiful, bizarre, and behaviourally complex.

For @sallywarring.bsky.social and @santa-walker.bsky.social at Earlham Institute, they're creating some fascinating scientific challenges.

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We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

#SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘴 & Company (Alphaproteobacteria: Holosporales)

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Members of genus Bodo are considered the closest free-living relatives to the parasitic ...

A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates.

We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky