Johana Rotterova
@micrott.bsky.social
@JohanaProtists | Assistant Professor at Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez | MIC.Rott Lab | Protists | Symbioses in Marine Anaerobes | Microbial Interactions in Ciliates | www.microttlab.org | newPI
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Johana Rotterova
@micrott.bsky.social
· Oct 9
New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
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✨ 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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
✨ 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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
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now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
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Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at [email protected]. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd
THERKILDSEN LAB
The Therkildsen Lab at Cornell University. Conservation Genomics and Molecular Ecology
www.therkildsenlab.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at [email protected]. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd
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Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc
Accueil | UMR SEBIO
Accueil | UMR SEBIO
umr-sebio.fr
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc
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Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
www.schooljobs.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
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Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine!
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Assistant Professor in Marine Ecology
The search will remain open until the position has been filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by December 12, 2025. Applications received after December 12, 2025 may be re...
jobs.uri.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Marine Ecologist tenure track job, here at URI. Come join a thriving research environment with a major focus on all things marine!
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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The University of Puerto Rico seeks candidates for a tenure-track Neuroscience faculty position starting August 1, 2026. Details: https://www.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Tenure-Track-Faculty-Position-Announcement-Neuroscience-signedMGV.pdf. #job
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The University of Puerto Rico seeks candidates for a tenure-track Neuroscience faculty position starting August 1, 2026. Details: https://www.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Tenure-Track-Faculty-Position-Announcement-Neuroscience-signedMGV.pdf. #job
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We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
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9 days till registration closes!
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The full list of workshop instructors is available here.
Registration closes November 15 🥳🥳
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Registration closes November 15 🥳🥳
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November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
9 days till registration closes!
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“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪
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Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.
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F420 is a key redox carrier in methanogenic archaea, and it receives electrons from Group 3 [NiFe]-hydrogenases. Writing in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social Zebger and Wagner now characterize the hydrogenase from a marine methanogen by XRD, FTIR, Raman, and EPR spectroscopy 👌
doi.org/10.1002/cbic...
doi.org/10.1002/cbic...
Structural and Spectroscopic Insights into Catalytic Intermediates of a [NiFe]‐hydrogenase from Group 3
Hydrogenases catalyze reversible H2 production and are potential models for renewable energy catalysts. Here, the full redox landscape of a group 3 [NiFe]-hydrogenase from methanothermococcus thermol....
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
F420 is a key redox carrier in methanogenic archaea, and it receives electrons from Group 3 [NiFe]-hydrogenases. Writing in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social Zebger and Wagner now characterize the hydrogenase from a marine methanogen by XRD, FTIR, Raman, and EPR spectroscopy 👌
doi.org/10.1002/cbic...
doi.org/10.1002/cbic...
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Database Release: PPSDB, a Linked Open Data Knowledge Base for Protist–Prokaryote Symbioses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
Database Release: PPSDB, a Linked Open Data Knowledge Base for Protist–Prokaryote Symbioses
As the ecological and evolutionary importance of symbiotic interactions between protists (microbial eukaryotes) and prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) is better appreciated, keeping an overview of th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Database Release: PPSDB, a Linked Open Data Knowledge Base for Protist–Prokaryote Symbioses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics
We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!
marine.usf.edu
October 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
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Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)
The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)
New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New paper out! 💌🔬Spirorhynchus verrucosus is a Muranotrichean and its sister has been livin' in the deep sea Santa Barbara Basin since the 90's! See them TUFTS!! Wonderful work of B Bourland & Cepicka Lab, R Beinart, & J Bernhard enabling deep sea sampling. Read h1.nu/spiror #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
With all the craziness in the world, good lab news bring real joy.💚🪇 With Breitbart's Lab help, long lab hours & determination not to give up, Gina has established a culture of the coral-eating Philaster!🪸🧫🔬I'm so proud of her!🥇 @gfullller.bsky.social
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
October 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
With all the craziness in the world, good lab news bring real joy.💚🪇 With Breitbart's Lab help, long lab hours & determination not to give up, Gina has established a culture of the coral-eating Philaster!🪸🧫🔬I'm so proud of her!🥇 @gfullller.bsky.social
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
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Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
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Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
Such a huge loss. Jane Goodall did so much for nature conservation as we know it, and kept doing so until her last breath. She has been my hero since very early childhood, and I had to pinch myself when I got to meet her a couple years ago in Prague.
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.
Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young…
news.mongabay.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Such a huge loss. Jane Goodall did so much for nature conservation as we know it, and kept doing so until her last breath. She has been my hero since very early childhood, and I had to pinch myself when I got to meet her a couple years ago in Prague.
Reposted by Johana Rotterova
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.
Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young…
news.mongabay.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.