Excited that our paper on histones in archaea is out in @mbiojournal. Check it out:

RT @ugophna: Our work showing that the #CRISPR nuclease Cas3 has an important DNA repair function in halophilic #archaea is finally in prin….

We are #hiring for Postdoctoral Scholar at Duke University Biology Department, Schmid Lab. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending Winter QBio Conference 2023 if you would like to meet!

RT @ETH_DBIOL: A new publication ( in @Nature by @pilhoferlab @F_Wollweber @xujw_thu in collaboration with @Archaea….

Postdoc position open in @SchmidLab! Click here to apply:

RT @antoine_hocher: Why did chromatin evolve? How much chromatin is ‘just right’? Answering these Qs in eukaryotes is difficult: chromatin….

RT @Archaeon_Alex: What Assistant Professors feel about the mentorship support from their senior peers? What do they expect? How to improve….

RT @thesilvalab: The Silva lab at Duke has positions open! If you are an ambitious and motivated scientist (Postdoc, PhD student, or techni….

RT @thesilvalab: #AcademicTwitter: @DukeBiology has TWO faculty positions open! We are planning to hire excellent scholars, mentors, teache….

RT @AmyAGoldberg: Duke Biology dept is hiring *2* people! Broad search. Duke is a wonderful place to live & work;….

So thrilled that our preprint is out! We find a mosaic of conservation in DNA binding patterns for chromatin proteins and transcription factors across domains of life. Congrats to first author Saaz Sakrikar!.

Congratulations to Saaz on acceptance of his first paper! He discovered an unexpected function for an archaeal histone in regulation of iron uptake gene expression.

RT @DukeBiology: Outreach, resilience, bacteria, and salt. LOTS of salt. In ep. 2 of BioGist, Tyler Edwards ('22) chats with Dr. @SchmidLa….

RT @Archaea_Vienna: Congrats to Pende et al. for their new paper in Nature Communications and to the co-authors Hayk Palabikyan and Simon K….

A postdoc position is open in @SchmidLab to study archaeal metabolism / cell biology. Please help spread the word. More info at

RT @DukeU: Congratulations to @DukeEcon's Rachel E. Kranton and @DukeMGM's Joseph Heitman who have been elected to the National Academy of….

RT @AmbikaK92: We are in the process of organising an online #archaea conference targeted primarily at #ECRs from 26th July 2021-30th July….

RT @PfamDB: We are delighted to announce the first fruits of our collaboration with Google Research on #DeepLearning for protein classifica….

RT @RachelJWhitaker: Shout out to Studying life at the extremes