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Juan Pierella Karlusich

@jjpk.bsky.social
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Marine microbiologist & bioinformatician. Ramón y Cajal group leader at IBVF (U Sevilla-CSIC, Spain). Former postdoc in Sergey Ovchinnikov’s lab at MIT/Harvard & Chris Bowler's lab at ENS-Paris. PhD in UNR-Argentina.

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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ColabFold 1.6.3 is out! 2.5x faster, pip-installable, ipSAE+pDockQ2 scores. Thanks Choonghwan Lee, Marielle Russo, Gyuri Kim 🐍pip install colabfold[alphafold] CF2 Sneak Peak with AF3/Boltz/Protenix/ESMFold2… 🐍pip install "colabfold[alphafold3]@git+https://github.com/sokrypton/ColabFold@af3-preview"
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky
An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The deep ocean is one of Earth’s largest and least-explored biomes. This dark, high-pressure realm harbors extraordinary microbial diversity. Our latest Preview highlights two fascinating studies of its microbiomes. Free access for a limited time: lnkd.in/eeKmuj32
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Yo Akiyama @yoakiyama.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Excited to share our now published paper @cp-cell.bsky.social highlighting advances in modeling the evolution of protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer. Big thanks to Zhidian Zhang, Olivia Tang, @eunbelivable.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social and @sokrypton.org!
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Expanding the scope of protein language modeling to protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer
Protein language models have excelled at modeling individual proteins, but extending these capabilities to protein complexes remains a major challenge. MSA Pairformer, a parameter-efficient protein la...
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Simon Kozlov @sim0nsays.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Yours truly is a proper scientist now! TL;DR: we used AI to redesign parts of essential cell machinery with only 19 canonical amino acids instead of 20. Why? Great thread by @harriswang.bsky.social provides more context and details. Let me talk a bit about the AI design part of this. 1/
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Big news! Starting my lab as Ramón y Cajal PI at @ibvf-sevilla.bsky.social in Seville 🌞, Spain, bridging microbial ecology, photosynthesis & plant biotech: from metagenomic and AI analyses 💻 to experiments in microbes & plants 🌊🧬🌱 Looking for PhD students & postdocs. DM or share!
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to u...
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Tara Oceans Science @taraoceans-science.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hot off the press, the most comprehensive survey ever performed of diatom distributions, abundances, and diversity in the global ocean. All enabled by the famous schooner@fondationtaraocean.bsky.social and lots of hard work from the Tara Oceans team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Using the Tara Oceans dataset, this study describes global patterns of diatom diversity, abundance and adaptation. The authors identify 25 distinct communities, with the Arctic as a hotspot, and highl...
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity andabundance in the global ocean rdcu.be/ehlG4
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NIH open source graphics bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Juan Pierella Karlusich @jjpk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean
Diatoms constitute one of the most diverse and ecologically important phytoplankton groups, yet their large-scale diversity patterns and drivers of abundance are unclear due to limited observations. H...
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BejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Diatom phytochromes integrate the underwater light spectrum to sense depth www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Diatom phytochromes integrate the underwater light spectrum to sense depth - Nature
This study demonstrates that diatoms with phytochrome photoreceptors can detect and functionally respond to the entire visible light spectrum through these sensors, enabling them to sense depth a...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #jcampubs
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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