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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huang, @tweethinking.bsky.social, Sepang et al. use phylogenetic analyses to reveal that the Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales constitute the new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf201

#evobio #molbio #archaea

Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia

Abstract. The Asgard archaea are a diverse archaeal phylum important for our understanding of cellular evolution because they include the lineage that gave

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Vlad Bondarenko @vladbndk.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 It is my pleasure to announce our recent review with Margherita on the current approaches, challenges, and perspectives in studying human maternal-fetal interface using in vitro models www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... 🚀✨️

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Aug 19

A great talk by Svitlana Serga about cytopIasmic incompatibility caused by #Wolbachia in the pest fly #Drosophila suzukii.
CBGP, INRAE, France and Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.
#ESEB2025

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Aug 19

⚡ Russian forces launched another attack against Ukraine. 270 drones and 10 missiles were deployed.

Administrative buildings of energy sector enterprises were damaged. No casualties were reported, according to local authorities.

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Aug 17

I will be at the #ESEB2025 conference! Text me if interested to meet or catchup:)
My poster is on Thursday about one of my hobby-projects about evolvability. Poster number is P03.284.

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Michael Kuhn @biocs.bsky.social · Aug 15

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7

#microsky

Metalog

Metalog is a repository of manually annotated metadata (or contextual data) for metagenomic sequencing data from across the globe.

metalog.embl.de

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Aug 11

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Esra Durmaz Mitchell et al.
Drosophila melanogaster

A photo of Drosophila melanogaster on a leaf.

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

A census of hidden and discoverable microbial diversity beyond genome-centric approaches

Cataloguing Earth’s biodiversity remains one of biology’s most formidable challenges, and the greatest diversity is expected to reside among the smallest organisms: microbes. Yet the ongoing census of...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our preprint on estimating how many more prokaryotic taxa can be discovered in the unbinned fraction of metagenomic samples.
We predict that there are 10 archaeal and 145 bacterial novel phyla across all habitats.
#MicrobialDarkMatter #TreeOfLife #Microbiome #Archaea #Bacteria #Metagenomics

Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jun 27

The team's first preprint is out!

Led by ‪
‪@vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social‬‬ & @omaistrenko.bsky.social , we asked a question (almost) as old as microbiology: how many prokaryotic species exist on Earth? More specifically, how much diversity is "hiding" in existing metagenomic data?

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jun 27

A census of hidden and discoverable microbial diversity beyond genome-centric approaches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661807v1

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jun 27

The team's first preprint is out!

Led by ‪
‪@vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social‬‬ & @omaistrenko.bsky.social , we asked a question (almost) as old as microbiology: how many prokaryotic species exist on Earth? More specifically, how much diversity is "hiding" in existing metagenomic data?

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jun 27

A census of hidden and discoverable microbial diversity beyond genome-centric approaches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661807v1

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Apr 4

Join the EEBG 2025 Bioinformatics Workshop from July 7-12, 2025, in Kraków, Poland. Open to students and professionals; apply before May 12, 2025. Details at: https://oakland.edu/biology/directory/oleksyk #workshop

Taras K Oleksyk - Biological Sciences - Oakland University

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to share our latest minireview on
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis

Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity

Occupying the interface between host and environment, host-associated microbes play essential roles in interactions with pathogens and influence disease progression (1–4). Considering that most entry ...

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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · Mar 17

SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 with great lecturers:
J. Akorli,
@berasymbionts.bsky.social,
M. Blaser,
T. Bosch,
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social,
@fkttkm.bsky.social,
I. Gabanyi,
G. Dominguez-Bello,
and... 1/2

#SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Mar 9

We invite you to participate in the IX International Conference "Drosophila in Experimental Genetics and Biology", which will be held on June 16 - 18, 2025 in Ukraine. The event is hybrid with online and in-person participation. Working languages are Ukrainian and English. #Drosophila #genetics

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Mar 9

#Drosophila #genetics #biology #conference #workshop
More details about the conference:
www.linkedin.com/posts/oleksa...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Mar 9

We invite you to participate in the IX International Conference "Drosophila in Experimental Genetics and Biology", which will be held on June 16 - 18, 2025 in Ukraine. The event is hybrid with online and in-person participation. Working languages are Ukrainian and English. #Drosophila #genetics

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Feb 11

I've attended the school in 2017. It is an amazing course with great lectures and opportunities to make friends and learn from leading scientists in the field!
#symbiosis #microbiome #biology

The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · Feb 5

Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR

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The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · Feb 5

Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Feb 11

I've attended the school in 2017. It is an amazing course with great lectures and opportunities to make friends and learn from leading scientists in the field!
#symbiosis #microbiome #biology

The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · Feb 5

Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jan 31

Day 5 of #USEB
#evolution #biology #school
YouTube live stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jan 30

Day 4 of #USEB
#evolution #biology #school

YouTube live stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jan 29

Day 3 of #USEB
#evolution #biology #school

YouTube stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jan 28

We have started the Day 2 of #USEB
#evolution #biology #school

YouTube stream available here www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Jan 27

The Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology is online!
Talks which are happening now and previous talks can be viewed in YouTube: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...
#biology #evolution #school

@eseb.bsky.social

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Oleksandr Maistrenko @omaistrenko.bsky.social · Nov 16

It is my pleasure to invite you to the first Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology (USEB), which will take place in Uzhhorod University from January 27 to 31, 2025. The event is hybrid. Primary target audience is high school, undergraduate, Msc and Phd students, but everyone is welcome.

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