Our new article on #protist global distributions combining the #Mixoplankton and #metaPR2 databases with newly revised functional annotations.

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Felicitaciones!

Great compilation on the pioneers of tintinnid research by @tintinnman.bsky.social

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250 years ago studies of tintinnid ciliates began. Here are the guys who started it...New artcle about the pioneers is out in open access:
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Summer warming and deoxygenation shape estuarine microbial plankton across domains of life Abstract. Microbial plankton have complex relationships with interacting coastal changes, including warming, eutrophication, and deoxygenation. At intra-an

My team's latest publication 🔬 🧬🧬 🖥️ @isme-microbes.bsky.social #protistsonsky

Summer warming and deoxygenation shape estuarine microbial plankton across domains of life academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Congrats, Max and team! Super cool!

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of:
A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids.
A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Cute! It looks like a strombidiid. This family contains many genera and species that can only be diagnosed with cytological staining and/or DNA.

Built from and for ecologists, molecular biologists, and bioinformaticians working with high-throughput or environmental sequencing data, this tool will ease the tedious work of designing specific oligonucleotides at all different users expertise.

New version of PR2 that now includes the eKOI coi database recently published.

A novel taxonomic database for eukaryotic mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (eKOI), with a focus on protists diversity Abstract. Metabarcoding has emerged as a robust method for assessing biodiversity patterns by retrieving environmental DNA directly from ecosystems. While

Version 5.1.1 of the PR2 database has been released.

The major novelty is the inclusion of the recently published eKOI database (coi gene- doi.org/10.1093/data...) in the web interface. The 18S rRNA database is not changed so you can use 5.1.0 or 5.1.1 for metabarcode annotations

We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!

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Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

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Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
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Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...

A few highlights:

I'm starting my research group in Koblenz on April 1st (no April Fools' joke!) and will soon advertise two postdoc positions in #protist #ecology and/or #genomics. If you're a (soon-to-be?) postdoc-level #protistologist looking for a job, get in touch! One position on wastewater, the other flexible!

PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243

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‼️TT Assistant Professor in Microbiology position‼️

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ForBio and UiO/IBV course: Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing - ForBio Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing”
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ONEPlankton - interconnecting methods for high-throughput phytoplankton diversity and abundance - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Call for postdocs proposals on Plankton Image at University of Oslo by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships! Great international team involved! Get it touch! 📨 @biovitenskap.bsky.social
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Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" - Official Live (Greenpeace) YouTube video by Ludovico Einaudi

To start the year I share this beautiful climate change song by Ludovico Einaudi. Art has a way to pierce reality through your heart like no science paper can, while being healing at the same time! Music for Earth’s hope! youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs?...

Phylogenomic workflow for uncultivable microbial eukaryotes using single-cell RNA sequencing − A case study with planktonic ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea) Phylogenetic analyses increasingly rely on genomic and transcriptomic data to produce better supported inferences on the evolutionary relationships am…

Our new paper:
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Here there is a download link if the previous one doesn't work: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kC9d3m3nN...

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New job alert: join my team as a Postdoctoral Researcher!

Join our #NSFfunded research on microbial communities (prokaryotes and protists) in a seasonally hypoxic estuary. Feel free to DM or email me with questions and/or please spread the word!

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Amazing images! So much detail!