Excited to share our third heterotrophic #Paulinella culture from Haida Gwaii, Canada! :)
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Our 2nd heterotrophic #Paulinella culture!
Really proud of this one. After days at the microscope picking cells, I finally got it growing happily :)
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The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu....
We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia π¨π¦
Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social
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Eva starting off the last symposium "Mechanisms of #Genome #Evolution" with the fascinating case of #Paulinella βan organism that acquired a primary #photosynthetic #cyanobacterial #symbiont independent of #Archaeplastida ! #plastids #plants #symbiosis #photosynthesis #plantbio18