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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · 16h

Excited to share our new work on nanopore metabarcoding — showing how it can be used for protists and combined with short reads!
Led by my PhD student Małgorzata Chwalińska, with our team at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social and @fabnot.bsky.social & Sarah Romac at @sbroscoff.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky

Metabarcoding and Metagenomics @mbmg.pensoft.net · 21h

"Want to start using Nanopore technology to research protistan diversity? Check out our paper introducing a pipeline for creating OTUs from Nanopore metabarcodes — bridging the gap between short- and long-read metabarcoding." - Anna Karnkowska

doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 15d

The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...

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DEEMteam_Orsay @deemteam.bsky.social · 2d

A proposal for journal accreditation systems to counter predatory practices. If funding agencies enforced these accreditations, predatory journals would quickly vanish.

doi.org/10.1093/fems...

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications

A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.

www.nature.com

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 15d

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

www.embl.org

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Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

www.embl.org

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

Apply now to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, which will take place 11-24 January, in the beautiful town of Český Krumlov, Czechia. Deadline: 20th of October, but applicants will be informed on a rolling basis. Spread the word among colleagues! 🙆🏽‍♀️ evomics.org/apply-worksh... #evomics2026

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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · Aug 15

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life

Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

www.nature.com

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Tomas Machacek @trichotom.bsky.social · Aug 10

First stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Poland! 🐌🦆
We met with @ankarn.bsky.social (thank you! 🙏🏻) to exchange knowledge on bird schistosomes and swimmer's itch and, mainly, share our experience with water filtration and #eDNA detection. 🧬

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · May 18

The 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference is coming to Warsaw! Join us to share your research and connect with others in the field. Check out a fantastic lineup of invited speakers!

🗓️ Abstract submission deadline extended to May 31!

More info & registration 👉 pec2025.biol.uw.edu.pl

#PEC2025

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · May 1

📢 Deadline extended to May 5!
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social

#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬

📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬

📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · Mar 23

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Warsaw #DOKO event yesterday! It was wonderful to meet so many people keen to learn more about UW, its courses, and our student organisations 🧪🦴🦠🔬

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Mar 9

Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! 🦠🔬

More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Jan 19

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Micah Dunthorn @micahdunthorn.bsky.social · Jan 13

Position as an Associate Professor in Zoology at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Zoology (268410) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Zoology (268410), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, February 23, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Lenka Kuglerová @kuglerovastripe.bsky.social · Jan 9

I have a two year postdoc position in freshwater biodiversity and extreme evens open in my lab. Please share and apply!

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.

www.slu.se

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Micah Dunthorn @micahdunthorn.bsky.social · Dec 20

International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025
#protist #protistsonsky
protistologists.org/programs/fun...

Funding - International Society of Protistologists

Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President. Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel […]

protistologists.org

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Dec 24

🎄✨ Warmest Christmas wishes to our dear friends and collaborators! Wesołych Świąt! 🎅🎁✨
Here’s a festive glimpse from our lab's Christmas event - celebrating the season together. Wishing you joy and success in the coming year! 🌟

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Dec 22

New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology

figure from the paper based on an evolutionary tree of a specific group of microbes

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Francis Mairet @fmairet.bsky.social · Dec 13

Taking advantage of the release of Clémence Boucher's 2nd paper on the toxins of the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum
doi.org/10.1016/j.al...
to promote also her first article on mixotrophy
doi.org/10.1016/j.ha...
with a cool video (2x speed) of Prymnesium phagocytosing a cryptophyte. #protistsonsky

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · Dec 16

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.

More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...

Please apply and/or circulate 😇

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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · Dec 11

Advanced genetic techniques & #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate + methanogen #symbiosis phys.org/news/2024-10...

Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host, habitat specific academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #protists by @micrott.bsky.social @symbiosisrox.bsky.social

electron and fluorescence microscopy pictures of complex microbial cells

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · Nov 29

Finally, some fantastic news for Polish science today!
The Prime Minister @donald-tusk.bsky.social and Minister of Finance @andrzej-domanski.bsky.social have announced a 500 million PLN top-up for 🇵🇱 Poland's major research grant agency, @ncngovpl.bsky.social, in 2025!

Narodowe Centrum Nauki @ncn.gov.pl · Nov 29

Premier @donald-tusk.bsky.social zapowiedział, że #NCN otrzyma 500 mln złotych w obligacjach! @kancelariapremiera.bsky.social
@andrzej-domanski.bsky.social
@ministerstwonauki.bsky.social ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

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