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Thijs J. G. Ettema πŸ¦ πŸ”¬πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

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Head of @MIB_WUR at @WUR | Intrigued by the small & under-appreciated | Microbial evolution | Transitions in the Tree of Life | follow me at @ettema.bsky.social

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Thijs J. G. Ettema πŸ¦ πŸ”¬πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
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It was great here, but I have now jumped 🚒 to the other side. Follow me at @ettema.bsky.social . Hope to see you there!
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RT @andrewjroger: My mentor, colleague, friend and all-round clever guy Ford Doolittle has just published a book "Darwinizing Gaia". I've….
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First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming ...
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RT @gabaldonlab: Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized via @QuantaMagazine with quotes from @toni_ga….
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All modern multicellular life β€” all life that any of us regularly see β€” is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start.
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Three weeks left to apply for this exciting PhD position focusing on eukaryotic genome evolution! Come work with us at @MIB_WUR! Please RT #PhDposition #evolution @WUR 🦠🧬🧐.
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RT @koestlste: 🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨.Our latest work on Escherichia coli and the regulation of DNA replication initiation via DnaA titrat….
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DNA replication initiation is orchestrated in many prokaryotes by the replication initiator DnaA. Two models for regulation of DnaA activity in Escherichia coli have been proposed: the switch between...
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Great work by Lorenzo Olivi, @koestlste and other colleagues from @MIB_WUR, reporting experimental and computational evidence for titration-based replication control in E. coli!.
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Now online the latest work of Lorenzo Olivi, @koestlste @NicoC_MicSynBio @Ettema_lab @HohlbeinLab et al.
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RT @msmjetten: To be repeated "ad nauseam" πŸŸ₯STOP THE BUDGET CUTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION in NLπŸŸ₯ and no political dog and pony show to confuse t….
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RT @NicoleDubilier: Thrilled, honored, and grateful to receive this award from @ASMicrobiology. A huge πŸ™ to my current & past team @MarineM….
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RT @andrewjroger: The great David Penny's obituary:
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Theoretical biologist who β€˜tamed’ mathematicians and tested the theory of evolution.
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To learn about the latest views, disputes and future research directions on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, read our review in @Nature here:. Non-paywalled version here:
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Nature - This Review summarizes key events in the emergence of cellular complexity via eukaryogenesis in the light of developments in environmental and comparative genomics during the past decade.
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RT @JulianVosseberg: Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent….
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RT @MichiWagner4: A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine . So glad to see this out in @Nature today – great c….
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RT @BettinaSiebers: 🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest manuscript tackles the longstanding debate about fatty acid synthesis in Archaea and….
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RT @DanielTamarit: Glad to have been part of this tremendous effort by @koestlste @JvHooff @Ettema_lab & others!.Read Stephan's thread to f….
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RT @koestlste: πŸš€ Identifying new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea has been a fun, exciting, at times overwhelming (so many p….
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Also see accompanying preprint by @archaeal's lab, lead by @katy_appler, reporting new insights into Asgard archaeal metabolism:
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Asgard archaea were pivotal in the origin of complex cellular life. Hodarchaeales (Asgardarchaeota class Heimdallarchaeia) were recently shown to be the closest relatives of eukaryotes. However,...
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Exciting work lead by @koestlste, with contributions from @JvHooff @kassiani_panag @DanielTamarit, and great collaboration with @archaeal @katy_appler and @val_deanda.
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Our latest: Using de novo protein structure prediction and sensitive sequence searches we found many new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea, suggesting the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes was more complex than previously assumed. @koestlste
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RT @fabaiwu: Our Viperin evolution paper is now on @NatureEcoEvo - This inspirational collaboration with the fabulous @HelenaShomar & @MDM….
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Systematic analysis of viperin sequences, a family of immune genes that are highly conserved across diverse prokaryotes and eukaryotes, shows that eukaryotic...
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