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Corey Holt

@coreyholt.bsky.social
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Lecturer (Assistant Prof) at the University of Bath. Exploring all things microbiomes and protist diversity/evolution. 🧬🔬🦀 theholtlab.com

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Sally Warring @sallywarring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come join team Protist at the Earlham Institute!
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What's that? You wish we had more data on those bizarre dinoflagellates WITH EYES? Have no fear! With @protistwtmostest.bsky.social, Gordon Lax, and @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, who also have eyes.
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Evolution of complex organelles in ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates
Abstract. Warnowiid dinoflagellates are known for possessing two of the most complex structures known in single cells: multi-projectile nematocysts and the
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings
Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2
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Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New preprint! 🧵 Best #Cercozoa genome alert! For a decade, I’ve studied protist ecology through questions like who eats whom. But beyond “they eat this, they eat that,” what do #protists do to their environment, biochemically speaking? #protistsonsky @huesnaoeztoprak.bsky.social
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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If you want to read a cool story today, look no further: A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The deadline for this project has been extended to June 9th as overseas applicants are now eligible! Looking for a fully funded studentship and a healthy mix of bioinformatics, imaging, and fieldwork? Get in touch!
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Liz Cooney @protistwtmostest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We are looking for candidates to fill a PhD position in Grenoble, France. Please share with anyone interested in microbial symbioses! #dinoflagellate #symbiosis www.linkedin.com/posts/johan-...
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PhD position available in the team (Cell and Plant Physiology Lab) in Grenoble, in close collaboration with Prof Patrick Keeling from Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), Liz Cooney (Photosymbiosis… | ...
PhD position available in the team (Cell and Plant Physiology Lab) in Grenoble, in close collaboration with Prof Patrick Keeling from Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), Liz Cooney (Photosymbiosis tea...
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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...
Scanning electron microscopy image of the ciliate Euplotes gigatrox on the cover of the journal PNAS. Distinct punk rock vibes
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Not a bad spot for the Holt lab’s first plankton tow!
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Just a few days left to apply! Looking forward to reading your applications!
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Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD
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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month! Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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See the intricate worlds of parasites and algae — March’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
GOOD NEWS! Our BRILLIANT Red-ALERT CDT (@redalertcdt.bsky.social) has funding for one more home studentship at the University of Bath so we're re-advertising this project! New deadline: May 18th Come explore protist and invertebrate diversity with us!
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Saving this for our new undergraduate microbiome unit. Would recommend! Thank you, @merenbey.bsky.social and Iva.
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Attending Protistology Open? Check out @nicolecoots.bsky.social & I's ISOP-sponsored symposium "The Symbiotic Continuum across the Tree of Life" (April 20th @ 11 AM)! We have an amazing lineup of speakers including Ondřej Pomahač, @mixotrophe.bsky.social, & Gillian Gile #ProtistsOnSky #Symbiosis
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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
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LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment
The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...
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Marie Walde 🌊🦠🔬 @mariescopy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you want to be part of this movement and make your own automated 3D microscope—sign up by TOMORROW and join us in #Roscoff in June for "Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology" www.sb-roscoff.fr/system/files... 🤖🔬🌊 @sbroscoff.bsky.social @gdrimabio.bsky.social @embrc-france.bsky.social
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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Two weeks left to apply for our Master’s Programme “Microbiome Science” at @cemess.bsky.social | @univie.ac.at! Explore microbial communities shaping health, the environment, and ecosystems. Application Deadline: April 7 All Details: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A parting gift 🎁
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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Aerobic sister lineage of breviates has gene-rich mitochondrial genomes #microbiology #eukaryotes #mitochondria #protists #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Aerobic sister lineage of breviates has gene-rich mitochondrial genomes
Cho et al. describe a novel, aerobic sister lineage of Breviatea using flow cytometric single-cell sorting and genome amplification. The new lineage harbors gene-rich mitochondrial genomes, unlike Bre...
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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠
Image of the cover of the 1st volume of ISME Host Microbe a new official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Cover images shows a plant stomata with bacteria around and entering.
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Love this paper. Covered the preprint with our final year undergraduates just a couple of weeks ago! Congratulations, all!
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 25/02/2026
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders! We offer: 🔬 Core funding 💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure 👩🏽‍🔬A network of world-leading scientists …and much more. Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🤩 Woahhh! Sounds like a blast! Not to be missed!
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great to see this paper in all its glory online: link.springer.com/article/10.1... A huge effort from Gordon and the team at @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social! Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca
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Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells - BMC Biology
Background Cercozoa are single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and are part of the supergroup Rhizaria. Cercozoans have vastly different morphologies and are defined by their phylogenetic affinity. While...
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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Some more generative aRt for your eyeballs. You'll have to imagine the birdsong... 🌷geom_meadow
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Have a novel protist's genome or transcriptome and want to predict it's mitochondrial proteome? Look no further than CoMR, this handy bioinformatic workflow to help you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phylogenetics
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New postdoc position available in the Tooke lab in our department. Perfect if you like molecular microbiology, structural biology and biochemistry! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP592/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Bath
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🗣️Protist friends! I'm looking to put together a list of key protistology resources for new students joining the lab. What are some of your favourite papers??? 🧪 #protistsonsky
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Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Applications are now open for our EMBO Practical Course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics! 🧫🔬🖥️ meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Come learn a mix of computational and experimental microbiome techniques from 6-8th July in beautiful Bath, UK! Registration Deadline: 11 May 2026
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Computational and experimental microbiomics
The critical contribution of microbiota to animal, plant and environmental health is now widely accepted. Progress has been driven by two parallel approaches: in silico analyses of large -omics data …
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods
This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.
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Ross Waller @rosswaller.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists (see more in thread below) Registration Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026. Regular Monday 10th August 2026. There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised! Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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(CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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'Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Manchester
We wish to appoint a PostDoctoral Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the assembly, stability and function of microbial decomposer communities.
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A great resource from Maia and friends! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Practical Approach to Study Uncultivated Protists Using Single‐Cell Techniques for Electron Microscopy
Protists represent a significant portion of eukaryotic diversity with a wide range of ecological roles, lifestyles, and diverse morphological traits. Despite their widespread importance in ecological...
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Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes (San Feliu, Spain): Abstract submission is open, with a short deadline! comparativegenomics2026.com Join us as we explore the most diverse, surprising, and still largely uncharted branches of the eukaryotic tree.
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you're interested in biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems, there's just a few days to apply for our PhD project: Ecological Surveillance using High-Throughput Quantitative Imaging at @uniofbath.bsky.social . Deadline: January 16th! Apply: is.gd/svXBcr Image: www.planktoscope.org/how-it-works
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Courtney Stairs @cstairs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New postdoc funding opportunity in Sweden! If you're interested in applying for this 'Data-Driven Life Sciences' fellowship, please get in touch, we'd be happy to host and help with the application (and talk options beyond the 2-year position). www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
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DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026
Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg.
The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Just on time for the holidays! Happy to share the published version of the discovery of leptophytes, a new deep-branching and widespread group of microalgae based on plastid MAGs (ptMAGs). Now with additional support from a mitochondrial MAG (mtMAG) of leptophytes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identification of a deep-branching lineage of algae using environmental plastid genomes - Nature Communications
Here, the authors leverage data from the Tara Oceans expeditions to perform a phylogeny-guided plastid genome-resolved metagenomic survey and provide 660 non-redundant plastid genomes from marine alga...
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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Great conference! Would definitely recommend!
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Those interested in performing maximum likelihood phylogenomic analysis on data sets made up of eukaryotic nuclear genes using site heterogeneous mixture models like C60, I suggest you use the ELM model in IQ-TREE instead of the LG model /1
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