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Anna Karnkowska
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Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes diversity, ecology & evolution.
PI at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
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sciencecharles.bsky.social
✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
10 days till registration closes for the Workshop on Phylogenomics and Genome Evolution!
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November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🧬 Registration is open for the Phylogenomics Workshop in Český Krumlov!
Fantastic training opportunity for anyone working with genomic data and evolutionary questions.
Highly recommended - amazing course, great community, and a fantastic setting!
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
ankarn.bsky.social
Excited to share our new work on nanopore metabarcoding — showing how it can be used for protists and combined with short reads!
Led by my PhD student Małgorzata Chwalińska, with our team at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social and @fabnot.bsky.social & Sarah Romac at @sbroscoff.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky
mbmg.pensoft.net Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · Oct 14
"Want to start using Nanopore technology to research protistan diversity? Check out our paper introducing a pipeline for creating OTUs from Nanopore metabarcodes — bridging the gap between short- and long-read metabarcoding." - Anna Karnkowska

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October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
evomics.bsky.social
The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
deemteam.bsky.social
A proposal for journal accreditation systems to counter predatory practices. If funding agencies enforced these accreditations, predatory journals would quickly vanish.

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October 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
godi.bsky.social
⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky
Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications
A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
floravincent.bsky.social
Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
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September 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
berasymbionts.bsky.social
🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
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September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
evomics.bsky.social
Apply now to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, which will take place 11-24 January, in the beautiful town of Český Krumlov, Czechia. Deadline: 20th of October, but applicants will be informed on a rolling basis. Spread the word among colleagues! 🙆🏽‍♀️ evomics.org/apply-worksh... #evomics2026
September 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
vesnagrujcic.bsky.social
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
rosafernandez.bsky.social
FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life
Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...
www.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
trichotom.bsky.social
First stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Poland! 🐌🦆
We met with @ankarn.bsky.social (thank you! 🙏🏻) to exchange knowledge on bird schistosomes and swimmer's itch and, mainly, share our experience with water filtration and #eDNA detection. 🧬
August 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ankarn.bsky.social
The 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference is coming to Warsaw! Join us to share your research and connect with others in the field. Check out a fantastic lineup of invited speakers!

🗓️ Abstract submission deadline extended to May 31!

More info & registration 👉 pec2025.biol.uw.edu.pl

#PEC2025
May 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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📢 Deadline extended to May 5!
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social

#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
ankarn.bsky.social Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Apr 14
🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬

📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ankarn.bsky.social
🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬

📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
April 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
ibe-warszawa.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Warsaw #DOKO event yesterday! It was wonderful to meet so many people keen to learn more about UW, its courses, and our student organisations 🧪🦴🦠🔬
March 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! 🦠🔬

More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
March 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
fburki.bsky.social
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
micahdunthorn.bsky.social
Position as an Associate Professor in Zoology at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Associate Professor in Zoology (268410) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Zoology (268410), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, February 23, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
kuglerovastripe.bsky.social
I have a two year postdoc position in freshwater biodiversity and extreme evens open in my lab. Please share and apply!

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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se
Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
micahdunthorn.bsky.social
International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025
#protist #protistsonsky
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Funding - International Society of Protistologists
Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President. Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel […]
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December 20, 2024 at 8:37 AM
ankarn.bsky.social
🎄✨ Warmest Christmas wishes to our dear friends and collaborators! Wesołych Świąt! 🎅🎁✨
Here’s a festive glimpse from our lab's Christmas event - celebrating the season together. Wishing you joy and success in the coming year! 🌟
December 24, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
isepprotists.bsky.social
New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology
figure from the paper based on an evolutionary tree of a specific group of microbes
December 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Anna Karnkowska
fmairet.bsky.social
Taking advantage of the release of Clémence Boucher's 2nd paper on the toxins of the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum
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to promote also her first article on mixotrophy
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with a cool video (2x speed) of Prymnesium phagocytosing a cryptophyte. #protistsonsky
December 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM