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Carlos Santana Molina

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Protein evolution, phylogenetics, Tree of Life PostDoc

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Florian Mayer @florianmayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excited to share our preprint on Ignicoccus cell divison: only the inner membrane divides, progeny cells accumulate in cell clusters and pop-out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work with the labs: @buzzbaum.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social
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The life cycle of an archaeon with multiple membranes
Many prokaryotes are diderms. They divide using an FtsZ division ring to simultaneously constrict physically coupled inner and outer membranes to form daughter cells with two membranes. Currently, onl...
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Joshua Hamm @joshnhamm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our paper examining the evolution of halophily in DPANN is out now in MBE! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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Saioa Manzano-Morales @microbiobits.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Interested in Asgard archaea? @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and I wrote a small blog post on our most recent paper about these fascinating group of prokaryotes and their genome dynamics: go.nature.com/4uPLY5W
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How the closest relatives of eukaryotes grew a larger genome
Asgard archaea have emerged as key organisms to understand eukaryogenesis. Among their many fascinating features is their atypically large genomes. Here, we dive deep into Asgard genome evolution to u...
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Carlos Santana Molina @santanamolina.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our preprint on the 'Origins of Eukaryotic Metabolism' is out! Take a look at some of the new findings on the origin of eukaryotic membranes, metabolic integrations between archaeal and bacterial ancestors, and other fascinating prokaryotic interactions during eukaryogenesis. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Wen-Cong Huang @wentsunghwang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#Archaea, #DPANN, #phylogenetic_reconciliation New preprint online! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Phylogenetic reconciliation supports a methanogenic ancestor of the Archaea and a derived origin for host-associated lineages
The phylogeny of the Archaea continues to be revisited and revised as new groups are discovered and phylogenetic methods improve, but key questions about their early evolution remain. It has been sugg...
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Fabai Wu @fabaiwu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Glad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky
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Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.
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Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)
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The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Very nice documentary about the origins of complex life with my PhD advisor Berend Snel @binfutrecht.bsky.social!
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Huang, @tweethinking.bsky.social, Sepang et al. use phylogenetic analyses to reveal that the Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales constitute the new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf201 #evobio #molbio #archaea
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Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia
Abstract. The Asgard archaea are a diverse archaeal phylum important for our understanding of cellular evolution because they include the lineage that gave
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Eelco Tromer @eelcotromer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happy to see our work published and glad to have contributed together with @maxraas.bsky.social ! Looking forward to all the projects that will come out of this work!
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Saioa Manzano-Morales @microbiobits.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
(1/14) ¿Has probado alguna vez a trazar tu árbol genealógico? Es un ejercicio interesante para entender tus raíces, a pesar de que se complica cuantas más generaciones atrás intentas llegar… Imagínate un árbol así, pero a escala de toda la vida en la Tierra. #HiloDivulgación
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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky
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Sam von der Dunk @derdunk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#ESEB2025 Exciting symposium alert: (S50) Unravelling the origin of eukaryotes. 🦑🌴 With speakers Purificación López-García and Mark Field. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... @julianvosseberg.bsky.social
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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We got to tackle three major questions in biology. So if you are interested in... A) The nature of LECA B) The relevance of patchy proteins for cellular models C) The trafficking machinery present in diplonemids have we got a paper for you! authors.elsevier.com/a/1km493QW8S... #protistsonsky
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Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
John Archibald also wrote an accessible summary of the work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mosaic evolution of eukaryotic carbon metabolism - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A comparative genomic investigation of metabolism across the tree of life supports the hypothesis that syntrophy — metabolic exchange between symbiotic partners — had a key role in the evolution of eu...
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Carlos Santana Molina @santanamolina.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Asgardarchaea & Alphaproteobacteria: key players for the assembly eukaryotic central carbon metabolism! Our new study reveals their gene contributions to glycolysis & TCA cycle, supporting synthrophic scenarios of eukaryogenesis. rdcu.be/eb0aK
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Chimeric origins and dynamic evolution of central carbon metabolism in eukaryotes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the eukaryotic gene repertoires mediating central carbon metabolism identifies ancestral contributions from Alphaproteobacteria, Asgardarchaeota and...
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