Isidora Morel Letelier
@isimorel
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PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology studying the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bacterial symbionts
Joined July 2020
Natural experiments, like the closure of the Isthmus of Panamá, can reveal the fascinating mechanisms of bacterial evolution. Our new paper shows how horizontal gene transfer helped chemosynthetic symbionts survive in the Caribbean Sea after this event. https://t.co/oSugb9lnng
journals.plos.org
Author summary Approximately three million years ago, the closure of the Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America, leading to species interchange on land but splitting an ancient ocean...
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Great people had some great days at the #ItMatters-conference, organized by our #PhD students, sharing exciting knowledge, offering fruitful discussions & lots of fun, thanks to all participants from @mpi_marburg and @MarineMicrobio There is a new logo! https://t.co/2lJ8AXNQy3
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The Isthmus of Panama separated them, now these lucinid symbionts live different lifes: @isimorel @benedict_yuen @M_helvetiae et al show the role of #HGT in bacterial #adaptation & impact of #nitrogen availability on ecological divergence @PLOS Genetics https://t.co/xqsdek6ZBg
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You might have heard of lucinid clams. Beautiful white clams that can be found at the beach, in seagrass beds, or in mangrove roots.
A paper from my PhD work is now available online!! (Open access). Feel free to follow the link and read the results from everyone's hard work! https://t.co/sIEhEN9EQw Title: Gene loss and symbiont switching during adaptation to the deep sea in a globally distributed symbiosis
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Happy 1st of December to everybody!! Still at the #istmobiome workshop discussing tipping points in beneficial animal-microbial interactions. And opening the first present from my daughter. Missing my family. @stri_panama @MooreFound @isimorel
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We had our very first group meeting today as Eco-Evolutionary Interactions Group 💕 And it was @CarlottaKueck's first days as a Ph.D. candidate!!! @MarineMicrobio @isimorel @benedict_yuen
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Finally officially announced: We are superhappy to welcome our new Max Planck Research Group Eco-Evolutionary Interactions, headed by @M_helvetiae and supported by @isimorel and @CarlottaKueck !! 🥳🎊 https://t.co/0he00Sfo7Y
#symbiosis #Lucinidae #WomeninSTEM #womeninscience
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David Attenborough: where is the series on microbes? - the life that allows other life to exist. "The Microbial Planet". Ep 1: Our Microbial Planet. Ep 2: Microbes of land and sea. Ep 3: Great microbial cycles, Ep 4: Human microbes, Ep 5: Microbes in extremes etc. @BBC Get to it.
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La zanja. Columna con el análisis del resultado electoral 👇
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“It was thought that the nitrogen for seagrasses comes from bacteria that live around their roots. We now show that the bacteria live inside the roots of the seagrass." out now @Nature
https://t.co/6iIHX3QxKa
@mohrwiebke @SoerenAhm @hannah_marchant @NLeisch @GruberVodicka
Excited to share our paper on a root-endophytic #N2fixing bacterium enabling #seagrass Posidonia to thrive in the N-poor Med Sea: Did its ancestors help seagrasses to emerge? #bluecarbon #symbioses
@MarineMicrobio @EawagResearch & HYDRA -> @Nature: https://t.co/jgK8fPbu8d
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I just got an email from someone in the US asking me for advice on how to obtain samples from Latin American countries without having to recognise sample providers w/ authorship in the resulting paper. Needless to say I was furious. Friends, please don't do this #colonialscience
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My first first-author paper is out! 🎉🎉 If you like Antarctic marine microorganisms and rhodopsins as much as I do, I invite you to read it and share it! | @mSphereJ
journals.asm.org
Proteorhodopsin-bearing microorganisms in the Southern Ocean have been overlooked since their discovery in 2000. The present study identify taxonomy and quantify the relative abundance of proteorho...
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It is alive. And it is out there. Uncorrected. Naked. #openaccess Beautiful. @Matt_Leray @odealab @peixotors @hollybik @davidacoil @JEmmettDuffy @DouglasRasher @SharpKoty @MaggieSogin @vegathurberlab @LizzyWilbanks @phylogenomics
journals.plos.org
The significance of symbioses between eukaryotic hosts and microbes extends from the organismal to the ecosystem level and underpins the health of Earth’s most threatened marine ecosystems. This...
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✔️A todos los interesados en divulgar ciencia 📹🎙️📻📺📷📰🧫🧪🧬🦠🐞🐞🐜🌿🌾 Se pueden registrar hasta el próximo 30 de junio https://t.co/8gtuyc3ESG
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The advantages of flexibility in partner fidelity: Check out our newest preprint on the gutless worm symbiosis with @Yui_Sato1 @Manuel_Kleiner @rebecca_ansorge @GruberVodicka
https://t.co/R8AUq3kMHi
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Almost 80% of my Chilean compañeras and compañeros voted to change our current constitution, a constitution that lays the foundations of an unequal society. Today we celebrate!
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