New work on ARK1 (AURKB?) in Plasmodium (malaria parasite) with @ritatewari.bsky.social and Pushkar Sharma. CPC in Plasmodium is (ofcourse..) different compared to conventional models: two INCENPs, no borealin/survivin - mainly at spindle microtubules/MTOCs. Special thanks to @ryanase.bsky.social!

Pleased to share our new preprint: "Plasmodium ARK1 regulates spindle formation during atypical mitosis and forms a divergent chromosomal passenger complex". Many thanks to our collaborators.
@ritatewari.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @davidguttery.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share the first story from my postdoc in @schnittger-lab.bsky.social
We studied TITAN9, a Csm1-like protein in Arabidopsis.
Even though I now work with soil, chromosome segregation and meiosis still have a special place in my heart.
#meiosis4eva #meiosis #chromosomesegregation

So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoc position currently available in our group studying meiosis in arabidopsis and wheat:

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

We are growing! A new @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social widefield tailored for ExM- supported by @moorefound.bsky.social is settling! Another one is on its way at @gautamdey.bsky.social Lab !

These two will become the powerhorses for high-througput imaging of the ExM Atlas of #Microbial Eukaryote !

Happy to see our work published and glad to have contributed together with @maxraas.bsky.social ! Looking forward to all the projects that will come out of this work!

ps. will you bring back taxonomy selection (at least prokaryote/viral/eukaryote?)

much appreciated!

great to see the new version of the webserver - will you bring back jackhmmer? that was such a useful tool for quick checks :)

It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered!

“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

OMG IT IS OUT EUKARYOTIC HOPANOIDS DESERVE ALL CAPS

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am happy to share a preprint on the marine plankton project I started one year ago (thanks to Julius and Drahomira's help)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Asgardarchaea & Alphaproteobacteria: key players for the assembly eukaryotic central carbon metabolism! Our new study reveals their gene contributions to glycolysis & TCA cycle, supporting synthrophic scenarios of eukaryogenesis.
rdcu.be/eb0aK

Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

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Online: our evolutionary interrogation of eukaryotic Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes @maxraas.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @lauraeme.bsky.social #SMCcomplexes #eukaryogenesis #LECA #condensin #cohesin #evolutionarycellbiology #chromatin 🧵(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A new preprint from our group in collaboration with @jvhooff.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social. We discovered that trypanosomes have (a zombie of) Bub1-Bub3 despite the fact that tryps do not have a canonical spindle checkpoint! This is a team work involving Dan, WillC, Midori and Patryk