A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.

Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

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Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President. Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel […]

The plastids of photosynthetic organisms on land are predominantly “primary plastids,” derived from an ancient endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium. Conv…

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The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...