VACANCY - Weβre searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - Β£37,500 - Β£45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time
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Join us for a 3-year #Postdoc and help us find out! Our ERC-funded project at @hifmb.de offers excellent facilities and an international collaborative work environment.
Apply by April 1st: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...
#ScienceJobs
How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social π¦ πͺ² Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our latest pre-print of our favourite pets - the breviates. This work was led by Zhezhen Yi in collaboration with @andrewjroger.bsky.social and many others! By studying diverse breviates we were able to see how different metabolic pathways can evolved in response to low-oxygen.
09.02.2026 14:55 β π 23 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
Rereading these two papers:
Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them
New paper by Saskia Wilmsen and me just came out BioEssays:
A new classification framework to understand evolutionary transitions in individuality
Please find the OA paper here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
π’ Open faculty position β Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! π§¬π
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
electron microscopy picture of a microbial cell with multiple flagella
How a parasite gave up sex to find more hostsβand why its victory won't last phys.org/news/2026-01...
Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Mullerβs Ratchet www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Giardia #Evolution
P. tenue, its symbionts, and natural habitat
End-of-year preprint dump! A collaboration with @messorensen.bsky.social and German and Korean colleagues: "The phylogenetic context for the origin of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis "
doi.org/10.64898/202...
I'm happy to of played a small role in this cool project. Such a neat system!
23.12.2025 16:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Colloquium Dec 17: Fellow @messorensen.bsky.social, "On the hunt for novel microbial endosymbioses" wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/a... www.wiko-berlin.de/en/wikothequ...
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New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga).
π DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Save the date! The next instalment of Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes is a GO! Join us next year for a programme of talks, posters, ECR/networking activities.
Website and registration details to follow in the coming weeks.
See you October 5-10 2026 in beautiful San Feliu!!
π’Postdoc position available!π§ͺπ§«π§¬
Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving hostβendosymbiont interactions.
Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a....
Please help us get the word out!
A Mitochondrially Related Plastidial Transporter Regulates Photosynthesis in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
25.11.2025 14:46 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations Hassan!! That's fantastic news
24.11.2025 20:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Some news π
After five incredible years in TΓΌbingen, itβs time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory πͺ²π¦
Bath city centre
Pulteney weir in Bath
Bath city centre
Bath cathedral
π There are currently 4 opportunities to join the Holt lab in beautiful Bath! π
If you're interested in protists, parasites, and/or biodiversity then please check out our website:
theholtlab.com/posts/ln5-21...
π¨ Deadlines vary between project.
βοΈ Please reach out if you have any questions!
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
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This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social π₯³ Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
π¨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Agnès Vallier, @cmonegat.bsky.social , Baptiste Vierne, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , Guy Condemine, Pedro Da Silva, Xavier Jaurand, @yschwab.bsky.social , @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social , Abdelaziz Heddi, and @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social
β‘οΈ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/5
Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
πͺΈπ§ͺ Weβre hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:β£
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Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. β£
Questions: nils.raedecker@hifmb.deβ£
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs
How to upgrade stolen organelles into permanent plastids: A comparative transcriptomic perspective www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #protistsonsky
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN π€© ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
