Eelco Tromer

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 :)

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...

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...

Horizontal acquisition of prokaryotic hopanoid biosynthesis reorganizes membrane physiology driving lifestyle innovation in a eukaryote - Nature Communications Horizontally transferred genes must be integrated into host biology. Here, the authors show that the domestication of bacterial hopanoid synthesis has rewired lipid metabolism of a eukaryote leading t...

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...

Chimeric origins and dynamic evolution of central carbon metabolism in eukaryotes Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the eukaryotic gene repertoires mediating central carbon metabolism identifies ancestral contributions from Alphaproteobacteria, Asgardarchaeota and...

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

Postdoc Comparative genomics and genome architecture in early-diverging fungi and their protist relatives (3-year position)

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...

Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻

I want to help!

Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached

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Science together is better than alone 🙌

Shaping up genomes: Prokaryotic roots and eukaryotic diversification of SMC complexes bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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