Carolina Mg
@carolina_micro
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Assistant Prof at UC Santa Barbara 🌊 Evolution of microbes across billions of years 🌎💞🦠
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined November 2018
UCSB has been selected to host 51 Peg b postdoctoral fellows. Topics include planetary science but also astrobiology Collaboration between physics and Earth science. Please spread the word!!! More info here: https://t.co/GjS29oCnX7
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The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
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Reach out if you are interested in being part of the elme lab! https://t.co/7eUdXV7ech
UCSB has been selected to host 51 Peg b postdoctoral fellows. Topics include planetary science but also astrobiology Collaboration between physics and Earth science. Please spread the word!!! More info here: https://t.co/GjS29oCnX7
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Out in @NatureBiotech: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at https://t.co/YYxXe1l8Cz.
https://t.co/UjmA9TAtaa A 🧵
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It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs 👉 https://t.co/VivnkqSyKs
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Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder’s high accuracy comparative genomic framework to provide substantially enhanced scalability and accuracy. Specif...
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GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities
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Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualizing the spatial organization of microbial communities. However, traditio
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So proud of this amazing girl 🤩🤩
It’s official!🎉I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining @MIT as an assistant professor in a shared appointment between @MITBiology, @MITEECS and @MIT_SCC this fall. My lab will couple ML and high throughput experimentation to harness the remarkable functional diversity
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New paper out where we highlight many newly recovered giant viruses and find new functional potential encoded in their genomes! #giantvirus #Bioinformatics
https://t.co/lEK95lBUcc
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npj Viruses - Expansion of the genomic and functional diversity of global ocean giant viruses
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I am looking for alternatives to the science Twitter we used to have not long ago. Any advice? Mastodon, bluesky..?
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Out today! 🚨 We explore how planetary oxidation ~2.5 billion years ago shaped the puzzling history of metal use in nitrogenase, key to nitrogen fixation! 🌍🔬 https://t.co/DIe5KJ6gbd work led by @MorganMicro, @hollyr_rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. @UWBact
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Gaia: A Context-Aware Sequence Search and Discovery Tool for Microbial Proteins https://t.co/pUo2M4Z9hl
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📢 Latest preprint alert ➡️ Ancient proteins 🤝 Alphafold We combined phylogenetics, ancestral sequence reconstruction, crystallography and deep learning based structural prediction and resurrected three billion years of an enzyme's structural history👇 https://t.co/EIuID8QaWq
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Life on Earth is more than 3.5 billion years old—nearly as old as the age of the planet. Over this vast expanse of time, life and its biomolecules adapted to and triggered profound changes to the...
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So excited to have @termofilos in the lab to look into the evolution of Cyanos! Welcome so Santa Barbara!!!
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More on (twisted) T-duality and higher symmetries of little string theories: https://t.co/mRTRMcuewI My first paper from the west coast (but east coast people). Great shout out to Hamza Ahmed who is on the market this year and did mayor work in this one!
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What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝
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Background Classifying viruses systematically has remained a key challenge of virology due to the absence of universal genes and vast genetic diversity of viruses. In particular, the most dominant...
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Are you interested in finding giant viruses, virophages, and PLVs inside your metagenomes? Struggling to figure out an easy way to do so? Look no further than BEREN, a one-stop-shop tool for recovery, taxonomy, and annotation of these viruses. https://t.co/OMCDlAGXcT
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Viruses in the kingdom Bamfordvirae , specifically giant viruses (NCLDVs) in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota and smaller members in the Preplasmiviricota phylum, are widespread and important groups of...
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Register free for our Royal Society Discussion meeting "Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres" Nov 11-12 London. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering the emergence of life on Earth to the search for exobiospheres https://t.co/TrOgi5w2mT
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Discussion meeting organised by Professor Philip Donoghue, Professor Anja Spang, Professor Tim Lenton, Professor Samir Okasha, and Professor Graham Shields.
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We found that transposons and intrachromosomal recombination are the main drivers of genome rearrangements regardless of how closely related microbes are. Comments on the preprint are welcomed 🤗
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New online! Marine biogeochemical nitrogen cycling through Earth’s history https://t.co/1lYf06uMVb
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This paper describes a very simple method extending the regime-based model of @omearabrian et al. (2006) to discrete traits. It nonetheless may be useful to some. If you're interested, check it out!
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Abstract. Many hypotheses in the field of phylogenetic comparative biology involve specific changes in the rate or process of trait evolution. This is part
Hey, no kidding -- this new article by @Klaus_Schlp, @Luke_Mahler, Travis Ingram, & myself is now out advance access at @JEvBio. 👉 https://t.co/2xiG4FEIqp
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