Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado
@luisarchaeota
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microbial genomics, enzyme function research fellow @hfsp at @MonashBDI | microbial genomics PhD from @Banfieldlab @savagecatsonly at @UCBerkeley #firstgen
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined July 2010
Humbled to be awarded the 2025 HFSP Long-Term Fellowship! Truly grateful for the opportunity to pursue bold science across borders. Excited to work with @gavinjknott on "Systematic discovery of evolutionary origins and functional diversity of methyltransferases" @MonashBDI.
🥳Congrats to the 50 outstanding postdocs from 25 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPFellowships! 🎉These brilliant minds are shaping the future of #LifeSciences!🧪.🏆Are you one of them? Tag yourself & celebrate! .📖 Meet the fellows: #HFSP #NextGenResearchers
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RT @joeBondyDenomy: Completion of a long standing project in the lab on an Anti-crispr enzyme that is hyper-potent and widespread. Many gre….
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RT @AllThingsApx: 🧬SiBaSe co‑designs protein backbone + sidechains + seq, yet acts backbone‑first due to uncertainty in sequence ↔ sidechai….
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RT @pacyc1841: DPANN Archaea and CPR Bacteria: insights into early cellular evolution? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B:….
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Cultivation-independent techniques have facilitated the discovery of a diversity of thus far uncultivated organisms and led to the identification of new branches within the tree of life. This has...
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RT @PracheeAC: We’re growing @ArcadiaScience and are always on the lookout for talent, particularly to run new pilot projects that can deve….
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RT @pdhsu: evolution strikes again. potatoes evolved from tomatoes 9 million years ago. we should evolve delicious and nutritious new foods….
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RT @UCSFChimeraX: ChimeraX daily builds can predict binding affinity of small molecules using Boltz 2 on your Mac, Windows or Linux compute….
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RT @theBentoLab: Struggling with smears or strange bands in your PCR? Our troubleshooting guide helps you identify and fix non-specific amp….
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Non-specific amplification is the amplification of non-target DNA during PCR. This article provides a background to non-specific amplification and troubleshooting tips.
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RT @pacyc1841: Tn7 family bacterial transposons known for tightly controlled target site selection are distributed across Asgard and archae….
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Tn7 family elements are DNA transposons in bacteria that show tight control of targeting, including multiple varieties that evolved guide RNA-directed transposition. We find diverse Tn7 elements...
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RT @sunnyjoy_dupuis: New preprint! Check out how we are approaching dual-proteomics of two very different microbes at once, no fancy tools….
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Cross-kingdom microbial symbioses, such as those between algae and bacteria, are key players in biogeochemical cycles. The molecular changes during initiation and establishment of symbiosis are of...
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RT @jcamthrash: An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats
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It has been proposed that eukaryotic cells evolved via symbiosis between sulfate-reducing bacteria and hydrogen-producing archaea. Here we describe a highly enriched culture of a novel Asgard...
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RT @MicrobiomeJ: 🦠What is microbiome research and what makes a good microbiome study? . In their Editorial, the Senior Editors of Microbiom….
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This editorial piece co-authored by the Senior Editors at Microbiome aims to highlight current challenges in the field of environmental and host-associated microbiome research. We also take the...
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RT @merenbey: A comment I wrote for you is now online at @NatureComms:. Oh, oh, it says "time travel will likely r….
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Nature Communications - Historical specimens have enabled transformative insights across kingdoms and ecosystems with new technologies, yet microbes remain largely overlooked in preservation...
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RT @RosettaCommons: RFdiffusion: Beta Documentation Now Available. We’re excited to announce that RFdiffusion now has official, Rosetta Com….
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We’re excited to share that the beta version of the official RFdiffusion documentation is now live! This resource is designed to support users at all levels – from those new to RFdiffusion to…
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RT @jcamthrash: Comprehensive taxonomic identification of microbial species in metagenomic data using SingleM and Sandpiper .
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Nature Biotechnology - Novel microbial species in metagenomes are identified using conserved regions within universal marker genes.
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RT @pacyc1841: Fast, cost-effective and flexible DNA sequencing by roll-to-roll fluidics | Nature Methods
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Nature Methods - This work introduces roll-to-roll fluidics, a method that enhances reagent efficiency and reduces turnaround time, enabling rapid and economical next-generation sequencing.
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RT @pacyc1841: Nuclease-NTPase systems use shared molecular features to control bacterial anti-phage defense | bioRxiv .
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Bacteria encode an enormous diversity of defense systems including restriction-modification and CRISPR-Cas that cleave nucleic acid to protect against phage infection. Bioinformatic analyses demons...
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RT @rafapinilla92: Our @MolecularCell Spotlight on the Hailong anti-phage system from the Kranzusch lab!. This defense uses "ssDNA tripwire….
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RT @jcamthrash: Ten simple rules for faculty members building just and equitable environments in academic science
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RT @pdhsu: Come join the bridge editing team @arcinstitute and build the future of genome design!.
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Bay Area friends! I’ll be around for the next few weeks. If you’re nearby and want to catch up - science chats, hikes, coffee, or just vibes — send me a message. Would love to reconnect.
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