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Ankita Banerjee

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #ARCTECH Doctoral Candidate in the lab of @archaellum.bsky.social University of Freiburg Molecular Biology of Archaea

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Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · 3d

This is crazy!!

Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · 3d

Whaaaaaat!?

Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · 7d

@sshamphavi.bsky.social and the amazing #Archaellum made it to the cover ✨😍

Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 7d

Some keen Observations in Our October issue!

🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence

and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Shamphavi Sivabalasarma @sshamphavi.bsky.social · 21d

Bacteria with archaella, who would have thought that this existed. Happy to share that it does 🎉and we just published it today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🥳. Congrats to everyone involved! 🦠

Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who would have thought I would ever publish an article about a bacterium?
But here it is, but of course only because Litorilinea aerophilum actually has an archaellum!

Here is what we learned about its cell structure and other surface appendages:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Filamentous growth, cell envelope architecture, and surface appendages of a member of the Chloroflexota, Litorilinea aerophila

Litorilinea aerophila, a filamentous bacterium of the phylum Chloroflexota (class Caldilineae), exhibits unique morphological and cell envelope features that challenge traditional bacterial models. In...

www.biorxiv.org

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Archaea Biotech @archaeabiotech.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congrats to Ankita Banerjee from @archaellum.bsky.social's lab & #ARCTECH for winning the VAAM poster award! 🏆 She studies how Sulfolobus acidocaldarius protects itself from UV damage using pili & DNA exchange- understanding archaeal stress responses!

#VAAM2025 #Microbiology #Archaea #ScienceWins

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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

Credit: Margot Riggi (@margotriggi.bsky.social), Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)

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Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · Feb 3

Archaellum in Bacteria!

Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · Feb 3

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A little thread below 1/n

Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria

Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...

www.biorxiv.org

Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 27

Here we go 🥳🦠 #ARCTECH

Archaea Biotech @archaeabiotech.bsky.social · Nov 27

Exciting news! 🚀 We're launching #ARCTECH, the first EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network focused on #archaea —a fascinating and resilient domain of life with great #biotech potential.

By addressing key gaps in archaeal research, we aim to unlock the vast potential of these #microorganisms. 🦠🔬

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Ankita Banerjee @ankitabanerjee.bsky.social · Nov 13

So here it begins 😋🥳
Very happy to be a part of this research and beginning my journey in Archaeal molecular biology.
A special one as it includes both my previous and current labs!

Thanks a lot @aglab-2024.bsky.social and @arghya93.bsky.social for introducing me to this exciting world!

Abhrajyoti Ghosh @aglab-2024.bsky.social · Nov 13

The story is finally out!!! Here, we showed multiple functions of the VapBC4 toxin-antitoxin of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius under stress. Thanks to @archaellum.bsky.social for an excellent collaboration.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Role of VapBC4 toxin-antitoxin system of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius in heat stress adaptation | mBio

This research enhances our knowledge of toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems in archaea, specifically in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. TA systems are widespread in both bacterial and archaeal genomes, indicating their evolutionary ...

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