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Anna Papageorgiou

@apapageorgiou.bsky.social

Archaea, Eukaryotes, DNA replication & repair, Evolution enthusiast. Biochemist, Structural biologist. Postdoc #UniKiel Unfocused wildlife πŸ“Έ, Smasher of🏸. Opinions are my own

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If you are curious about plant evolution, cytogenomics, and big-picture questions about biodiversity, feel free to get in touch with Sreetama @sreetamabhadra.bsky.social!

28.07.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats It has been proposed that eukaryotic cells evolved via symbiosis between sulfate-reducing bacteria and hydrogen-producing archaea. Here we describe a highly enriched culture of a novel Asgard archaeon...

This was fun! Folding whole proteomes… looking at tomogram, looking at genomes🀩 lots to discover!🧬🧢

23.07.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unusual protein found in a Loki Asgard Archaea.

Unusual protein found in a Loki Asgard Archaea.

Check out this weird protein we found in a Loki Asgard archaea.🧬🧢Only found relatives in other Lokis. πŸ€”

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

23.07.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Alright, last one, now I need to get back to real work... 😸

13.07.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors Nature Microbiology - Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.

πŸ“£ We are proud of the publication of the second paper of @bbaker24.bsky.social PhD thesis. In collaboration with friends in Halifax we have studied the difficult question of the phylogeny of the DPANN archaea, composed of several phyla of highly reduced, fast-evolving epiparasites 🧡

rdcu.be/erkkU

17.06.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
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One more appointment with great science in a few days, one click away πŸ‘‡

28.05.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

24.04.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 6

#phylogenetics

14.03.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Microtubules in Asgard archaea Discovery of heterodimeric, microtubule-forming tubulins in Asgard archaea, the closest known relatives of eukaryotes, reveals snapshots of microtubule evolution.

Interesting paper alert! #eukaryogenesis www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

25.03.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

11.02.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 725    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 30
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Closing out our winter premier, @florianwollweber.bsky.social will tell us about his investigations into the elusive cell biology of Asgard archaea using state-of-the-art imaging techniques! Show your love for archaea by tuning in on WEDNESDAY! Remember, they're everywhere, always watching πŸ‘€

10.02.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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