Bluesky 🦋 @benkinsjenkins | Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab | EMBO SEG @guse_lab | 🦠 Paramecium | 🪸 Aiptasia
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2018
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Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
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The genetic repertoire of early eukaryotes was shaped by horizontal gene-transfer from broader microbial interactions, including viruses! Fascinating stuff @moigilbernabeu @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon
After some time working on it, I'm very happy and proud to share our study characterising the diversity of origins of the LECA gene families! @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon @gabaldonlab
Great couple of days with some brilliant people
Great meeting for the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership. Exciting new opportunities ahead! 🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪
@RossWaller3 @MeissnerLab @ElenaJmnezRz @Arctas_fr @siegel_lab @CicutaGroup @Susie__McLaren @Dey_Gautam @oscarbranson @rayner_julian
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@VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomplexans, #dinoflagellates and other myzozoans that have made this group so prolific and successful. (1/3)
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Great blog post about our mammoth project to sequence over 100 coral genomes @sangerinstitute @DerbyUni sangerinstitute.blog/2024/10… @ICRSCoralReefs @CoralSpawning
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By using microscopy, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, @varsh_mathur and colleages present us a glimpse of a very understudied group of organisms like diatoms and their parasites.
#CGUE
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new work: "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" -> using a human rights framework to hasten protection of coral reefs & highlighting the strong ties to human well-being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… .. Kudos to @emmafcamp & co-authors! @UniKonstanz
Coral reefs support more than 1 billion people, so their loss would have significant ecological consequences as well as serious repercussions for communities worldwide. Check out our perspective on the link between reef consideration & human rights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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CGUE-bond. Looking forward to meeting up with many friends and colleagues and presenting our work on plastid origins and evolution @ERC_Research
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Our study on Diphyllatea (CRuMs) is out! From our lovely trip to the South Pacific, we manage to get 4 new transcriptomes from cells found in freshwater crater lakes.
doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13060
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Check out our new paper! Cool bugs isolated from freshwater crater lakes in the South Pacific 🤩
Our study on Diphyllatea (CRuMs) is out! From our lovely trip to the South Pacific, we manage to get 4 new transcriptomes from cells found in freshwater crater lakes.
doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13060
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📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc
Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 @thembauk
⏳Deadline 25th October 2024
ℹ️ Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/postdo…
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Cool piece about our findings on fungal zoospore motility!
Even a fungus has to move around sometimes. Research by @Luisjagago and @jasnir_ looks at how different movement patterns of zoosporic fungi are affected by their cellular structures biologicalsciences.uchicago.…
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Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at VEuPathDB.org to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future
🔗veupathdb.org/
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Awesome 🤩 story! Kudos @realBenJen & everyone involved!!!
Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
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doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.14.6…
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Check out this preprint from @realBenJen et al! Genes acquired through HGT enable Paramecium to control its algal symbionts through a complex network of glycan sensing 🦠 Congratulations to all authors on this exciting discovery 🎉
Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
1/10
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.14.6…
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Beautiful @realBenJen , happy to see it out.
Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
1/10
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.14.6…
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Very cool stuff.
Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
1/10
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.14.6…
The 'shopping bag' model proposes that genes acquired from transient partners builds the repertoire needed for stable endosymbiont integration. Here we show how prok-to-euk HGT can augment existing functions to shape an entirely separate endosymbiotic interaction
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I want to thank everyone who helped shape this incredible story - my former colleagues and friends in Tom Richards' lab (@AncestralState) at @OxfordBiology, and our amazing collaborators @MESSorensen, @GC_Drew, @dunkie_c, and Michael Brockhurst. It's been great!
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