🎊 So very happy to announce that in 2023 I'll Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Faculty of Science, Utrecht University as assistant prof! 🧬 Interested in a PhD position on fundamental bacterial and archaeal genome evolution in beautiful Utrecht? Don't hesitate to reach out :) 🔜 Can't wait to get started!

Asgard archaea reignited discussions about the tree of life 🦠 But do they have eukaryotic features? YES!! 🤩 Check out our new paper nature by Florian Wollweber and Jingwei Xu, in an exciting collaboration with the Schleper lab Schleper Lab Vienna. nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵1/4

Please retweet! SAMPLE SHARING REQUEST! Colleagues, will be any of you be sampling sea ice in the next couple months? I am desperate to get my hands on not-fixed material for microbiological research. Please DM me if you are sampling or you know somebody who is.

Very excited to finally open this position: PhD on microbial genome evolution, with emphasis on studying genome architecture in bacteria and archaea. tinyurl.com/phdgenomeevolu… Please RT and share with talented MSc students in bioinformatics, evol biology or related fields :)

We compared pairs of clinical & environmental #Legionella isolates to identify rapid adaptations to human. Paper out in #microbialgenomics Microbiology Society. Congrats Dennis Leenheer, Isa Moreno, & al! Great collab w/ S. Jarraud and C. Ginevra CIRI Lyon! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

To the membrane. #visitingpavia

After 5 years of an emotional roller-coaster, we are so happy to see our latest Asgard adventure published! nature.com/articles/s4158… A huge thanks to my brilliant co-first authors and friends Daniel Tamarit & mus musculus, and of course Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺! A thread 🧵.

Our latest chapter of the Asgard saga is finally published in @nature! See nature.com/articles/s4158… #OpenAccess See separate twitter threads by lead authors Laura Eme and Daniel Tamarit for background info. Below a thread on the history of the Tree of Life .

I am so very stoked that this study is finally out! So many years of work, now condensed in a few pages (+ extensive SI 😬). Don't miss Laura Eme's fantastic summary thread! Phylogenomics were central and painstaking. What did we do with 6 years of tree-making? 1/

I have an open PhD position in my lab at Mol Evo Uppsala Uppsala University to work on evolutionary genomics of host-symbiont interactions, focusing on #Wolbachia and #Drosophila. Apply at jobb.uu.se/details/?posit… Please RT!

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

Please #retweet! #JobAlert: We currently have two #PhD student positions in our lab in #soil #ecology. Are you interested in #protists, #volatiles, #bioindicators & #biodiversity? Then take a look at the advertised positions! Eu Project SOB4ES & #deserts

Job opportunity! I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!). If you are interested in joining our Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR lab at Wageningen U&R campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.

The Hendrickson Lab is looking for a PhD student to join our team at University of Canterbury as we embark on an ambitious new #phage hunt for marine phages in New Zealand. Join us in Christchurch as a member of this #MBIE Endeavour funded project! FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectde… Biology at UCNZ

Job alert (pls RT): an exciting #PhDposition in evolutionary microbiology available in my lab at Uppsala University! Help us study the evolution of early intracellular bacteria and what they can tell us about their first hosts. Apply before April 8th. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Like #protists, #mitochondria, #evolution? Hate oxygen? Us too! Come join us as a PhD student as part of our #tango2lund project funded by European Research Council (ERC). Details about the position and how to apply: thelabupstairs.online/open-positions/

Are you interested in how co-evolution shapes the genomes of bacterial symbionts and their hosts? Open PhD position in my lab at Mol Evo Uppsala to work on evolutionary genomics of host-symbiont interactions, with focus on #Wolbachia and #Drosophila. Apply at jobb.uu.se/details/?posit…

I am thrilled to share our latest publication on the three concurrent mechanisms generate gene copy number variation and transient antibiotic resistance! nature.com/articles/s4146…

"I need to read more about evolution of host adaptation, why don't we write a review", said Zelia Bontemps a week after starting in my lab. Well, proud to announce that said review (also with Kiran Paranjape) is out in FEMS Reviews Microbiology FEMS academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…