And here is the press release for our natural products paper. It does a much better job explaining what we did than my thread: www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1619988/2026... Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Haven't used this is in a while, but a new paper from the group is a good excuse. This is monster of a paper from Sebastian Kaiser about the evolution of non-ribosomal peptides. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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The kinetochore is essential for cell division across species, but its components and organization evolve dramatically. How can that be? Our first foray into this fascinating question is up now on biorxiv: 🧪 1/12 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Thrilled to share this pre-print from an exciting collaboration with @bnashby.bsky.social, @asherleeks.bsky.social and @bramvandijk.bsky.social! Viral cheats that emerge through social evolution, under vertical transmission as proviruses, become defense systems to their hosts.

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