Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Guest Editors Nancy Moran & Thomas Richards discuss our #collection of articles exploring emerging themes in #symbiosis research, as researchers exploit modern research tools and new models to unravel how symbiotic interactions function and evolve.

plos.io/49Khiba

Announcing our new #collection on #symbiosis across the tree of life.

You can find all of the articles in the collection here: plos.io/3UncV1j

We are approaching that time in the semester when therapy dogs are deployed to colleges/universities across the country to solve major problems well beyond their expertise.

The move from a free-living environment to an endosymbiotic relationship has profound effects on bacterial function.

This #UnsolvedMystery from John P McCutcheon &co explores how bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes. #symbiosis

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The next Perspective in our 40th anniversary series is Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life by Laura Eme and Daniel Tamarit buff.ly/3U1zAPm #science #evolution #biology #genome

Fungi: Web of Life, narrated by Björk, is coming to non-IMAX cinemas across the UK via the Demand platform. These scheduling screenings will only go ahead if a minimum number of tickets are sold. Please book & share if you are keen! uk.demand.film/fungi-web-life/

GCI: Genome Continuity Inspector for complete genome assembly biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

Great name! 😅

Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

Same rubbish as strawberry smoothies. 99.9999999999% banana. 🤮🤮🤮🤮 And 0.0000000001 strawberry. Eugh.

Today would have been my sister's 37th birthday.

Sadly she passed away in June 2023 from secondary breast cancer.

This last year has been pretty tough to say the least.

Having a day off today. Please look after yourselves.

Paramecium bursaria can teach us a lot about the molecular mechanisms of #endosymbiosis

This was a lot of fun to write, really excited to see this out ! PLOS Biology

‘DUNE: MESSIAH’ is officially in development at Legendary.

Cereal-infecting rust fungi carry 2⃣ genomes in separate nuclei! With PacBio and Phase Genomics we sort out 30 haplotypes from oat crown rust to uncover nuclear exchange, cryptic recombination, and migration.
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Jana Sperschneider Melania Figueroa CSIRO
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Prof Lukeš cites a great review of the Kachale et al. (2023) Nature paper at nature.com/articles/d4158… which explains why these #Blastocrithidia are so remarkable & change our undertanding of translation! Worth a read! And check out Obscuromonas too: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I am delighted to share a preprint of our *Guide to k-mer approaches for genomics across the tree of life*
By Katie Jenike, Lucía Campos Marilou Boddé José Cerca Christina Hodson Michael Schatz & myself.
arxiv.org/abs/2404.01519
Some of the things you can find inside 👇