zachary-ardern.bsky.social
Researching the evolution of protein novelty in bacteria & viruses @Wellcome Sanger Institute 🧬 NZer, previously postdoc @KIT & TUM. Interested in philosophies of science & religion Married to @ankeaa.bsky.social, galactic archaeologist 🌌
👤 Joined on 17 November 2024
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@zachary-ardern.bsky.socialLooking forward to joining the University of Surrey as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in October! 🤩 Exciting times ahead studying ancient stars in the Milky Way! 🔭
Show PostSingh, Dubey & Seshasayee find evidence that the most ancestral prokaryotes probably encoded multiple TFs, which possibly regulated sugar-fermentation metabolism, sensed metabolic state and redox, responded to DNA damage or bound metals. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag141 #genome #evolution #LUCA
Show PostGame over, phylogeneticists! New DNA foundation model "Carbon" reconstructs the tree of life. 🙃 huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...
Show PostCome listen to my talk about how enhancers evolve and how promoters emerge from randomly synthesized DNA sequences!
Show PostWhat selective forces first enabled protocells to evolve functional coding sequences? @andrewpom.bsky.social &co show that genetic #heredity could only originate once #protocells achieved sufficient metabolic capacity, so growth had to precede information @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Py9uFl
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