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Kaiyu Qiu

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Graduate student at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen working on protein fold evolution

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Lars Eicholt @lacholt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Check out our new review in Nature Reviews Genetics on de novo emerged genes and proteins. How they emerge, are lost and persist - and how de novo emerged proteins relate to randomized proteins! @bornberglab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Emergence and evolution of protein-coding de novo genes - Nature Reviews Genetics

De novo gene evolution entails the birth of new genes from previously non-coding DNA. In this Review, Bornberg-Bauer and Eicholt overview how protein-coding de novo genes are identified, the mechanist...

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Vikram Alva @vikramalva.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy to share that our work on HLp, a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii, is now published in Nature Communications 🎉 In this study, we show that HLp forms stable tetramers that wrap ~60 bp of DNA, revealing a distinct histone–DNA organization in bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cauã Westmann @cauawest.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

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Vikram Alva @vikramalva.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excited to share our new preprint on HLp—a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii that forms stable tetramers and wraps ~60 bp of DNA: "DNA Wrapping by a Tetrameric Bacterial Histone" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

A snapshot of the HLp tetramer (purple) wrapping ~60 bp of DNA (green).

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