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Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis nature.com/articles/s4146…

happy to announce my first ever #sciart #paleoart in Scientific American : new story by Chris Mays et al explains the downfall of the Permian world as heat, fire, and toxic algae -- which are all increasing in today's world as well! scientificamerican.com/article/toxic-…

If like me you've run hundreds of minipreps but never bothered to read up on why they extract plasmid but not chromosomal DNA, a recent tweet by @joel_rosenbaum finally motivated me to look it up. From Biennium and Doly 1979:

DNA Enzymes explained with earphones 🧬🎧

tardigrade with volvox algae

We are hiring #PhDstudents. Today featuring Jan de Vries. #evolution #Bioinformatics. Also have a look at other projects in #LifeSciences on our website: imprs-gs.uni-goettingen.de All projects are fully funded Uni Göttingen Göttingen Campus Bioinformatics Göttingen MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences

Chlamydomonas delivering drugs to the lungs! Never would have guessed algae could be used for this.. nature.com/articles/s4156…

This has been great fun! Some of our thoughts Sophie de Vries Iker Irisarri @armin_dadras Tim Rieseberg Jaccoline Zegers Janine Fürst-Jansen on #streptophyte #evolution and specialized #metabolism | MadLand #plantsci #algae link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In our new nature paper, Darrin Schultz Darrin Schultz used the position of genes on chromosomes to show that ctenophores (comb jellies) not sponges are the sister-group to all other animals. nature.com/articles/s4158…

New #ISEPpapers! Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #protists #proteins #evolution #eukaryotes

1/42 New preprint: turns out MuLTEE is not only the longest running multicellularity evolution experiment (1000 days and counting), but also the longest running polyploidy evolution experiment! It reveals how whole-genome duplication (WGD) arises and impacts long-term evolution.

Looking for a weekend read? 📚 Check out our latest review on the evolution of plant signaling! 🌱 Co-authored with Jan de Vries, Iker Irisarri, and Sophie de Vries, we dive into model-based homology searches and protein kinases. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…