Alessandro Garritano
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🇧🇷 Marine biologist 🌊 & bioinformatician🧬 @UNSW exploring the secrets of bacterial metabolism & life in the deep-sea . ✈️ geek in my free time
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Deep-sea menage à trois? A sponge, an archaeon, and a bacterium rely on carbon & vitamin B12 exchange — until a virus crashes the party! Discover how ammonia-oxidation and viral lysis drive this unique #symbiosis! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Metagenomics 🧪
#Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky
Simple Porifera holobiont reveals complex interactions between the host, an archaeon, a bacterium, and a phage
Abstract. The basal metazoan phylum Porifera (sponges) is increasingly used as a model to investigate ecological and evolutionary features of microbe–anima
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New review out in Annual Review of Marine Science! 🌊🧫
We explore how ammonia-oxidising microbes form symbioses with marine hosts - fueling the nitrogen cycle, fixing carbon, and possibly feeding their hosts.
#Metagenomics 🧪
#Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky
🔗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Symbiotic Ammonia Oxidation in the Marine Environment | Annual Reviews
Ammonia oxidation is a fundamental step in the marine nitrogen cycle, catalyzing the conversion of ammonia to nitrite or nitric oxide and generating reductive power for the autotrophic growth of micro...
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Great work on Asgardarchaea by @snobsi.bsky.social, @juliameltzer.bsky.social, @xabivc.bsky.social and collaborators
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So excited to finally show the world a project years in the making. A huge group effort with lots of expertise leading to a unique #Asgard syntrophy story. Very fortunate to have been involved in cultivating and analysing this wonderful organism ❤️
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Our new preprint with a new #Asgard from stromatolites (and its Desulfobacterota companion). Complete circularised genomes of both, cool #cryoem images, protein modelling, etc

Big group effort with a lot of people involved
#archaeasky #archaea
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This looks like a great resource for drawing metabolic schemes and the proteins involved. Lost countless hours looking for the subcellular location of specific enzymes and very keen to give this a try
alegarritano.bsky.social
Great initiative, Joana. Can you please add me to the starter pack? And thanks @benoitpaix.bsky.social for the tag!
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Deep-sea menage à trois? A sponge, an archaeon, and a bacterium rely on carbon & vitamin B12 exchange — until a virus crashes the party! Discover how ammonia-oxidation and viral lysis drive this unique #symbiosis! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Metagenomics 🧪
#Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky
Simple Porifera holobiont reveals complex interactions between the host, an archaeon, a bacterium, and a phage
Abstract. The basal metazoan phylum Porifera (sponges) is increasingly used as a model to investigate ecological and evolutionary features of microbe–anima
doi.org
alegarritano.bsky.social
Hey Alejandro, can I please be added to both? Thanks!
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Hey Steven, can you please add me as well! Thanks!
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Nice collaboration with a great team. Congrats to @lilly_hill and Camila Messias for the countless works of work. This is a great isolation method for anyone studying in hospite Symbiodiniaceae out there. 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻

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A nice paper on microbial dark matter revealing that in situ devices increase coral's microbes culturability up to 570% is out on iScience 🧪. This device, initially used in soils, has proved to be useful in marine sponges and, now, in corals as well.
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Also, @danirabaiotti.bsky.social, it would be great to be added to the What's Science list, if still possible 🧪 :)
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Finally started migrating from X to bsky and hoping to connect with more people interested in #Bioinformatics 🧬💻. Thanks @amanzanom.bsky.social for all the tips so far and if someone out there have any good tips, please let me know!