Will Lewis

Postdoc at @RossWaller3 Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge

Microbial evolution and ecology

[WallerLab @CamWallerLab]

The latest paper from our lab is online now at Current Biology! https://t.co/wxPI5LBKJA

#dinoflagellates #plastids #endosymbiosis

[Ross Waller @RossWaller3]

Thinking of getting a new plastid, but worried that it will be too hard to figure out how to target proteins to it? Fear not, Kareniaceae dinoflagellates show that you can just use the preexisting translocons from the donor alga, haptophytes in this case. https://t.co/r4YHL1ioxH

[Courtney Stairs @cstairs]

Archaea can also use FeFe Hydrogenases too! Check out the thread by @greeninglab and associated link.

[WallerLab @CamWallerLab]

U-ExM of Karlodinium veneficum 🦠🔬🤩 In which direction is it spinning ?? 😵‍💫
@WillLew12 @Nicolas3474
#FluorescenceFriday #UExM #Protists

[Ross Waller @RossWaller3]

Out now here: https://t.co/qxFCU5k3ae

[Ross Waller @RossWaller3]

Like knights of old, Toxoplasma wears a suit of armoured plates. But both share a problem, how to release internal payloads when it’s time? Toxo secretes dense granules as post-invasion weapons that control their hosts. But how do they get out?
(1/6)
https://t.co/vs5tiDptqi

[Will Lewis @WillLew12]

@Ettema_lab Congratulations Thijs!

[Will Lewis @WillLew12]

@cstairs @ERC_Research @Lundsuni @Biology_LU Congrats Courtney, well done!

[Will Lewis @WillLew12]

https://t.co/TZCVKTKfuH

Nice expansion of the available molecular data for anaerobic ciliates

[Will Lewis @WillLew12]

@RossWaller3 and I wrote an article about symbioses in anaerobic ciliates that is out now in the latest issue of Microbiology Today, along with several interesting articles authored by other members of @ProtistologyUK.

https://t.co/qvzUqjybAx

[Guillaume Tahon @GuillaumeTahon]

(1/3) Our new review is out in @AnnualReviews of Microbiology! Together with @PatriciaGeesink and @Ettema_lab we first describe how the archaeal branch of the tree of life expanded over the years, starting from the first Archaeon being described in 1880.
https://t.co/6oF2Whtccu

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

Some new work from us that may be of interest if you are into early bacterial evolution. An even-handed collaboration with @sllsi @PhilHugenholtz @anjspa1 @garethandrewco1 Adrian Davin @TAMahendrarajah @drenal_eu! https://t.co/EayG9i3NNb

[Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @Ettema_lab]

Great work by Graf and co-workers: discovery of an intriguing symbiosis between a nitrate respiring proteobacterium and an anaerobic ciliate! Also see our N&V here: https://t.co/2FIv8wKQyd
@WillLew12 @MIB_WUR @NatureNV @nature

[Biogeo MPI Bremen @BiogeoMPIBremen]

Fresh, fresh, denitrifying! Very excited to share our paper on a bacterial #endosymbiont that breathes #nitrate for its #ciliate host. Just out in @Nature. Together with @sinaschorn @KathiKitzinger @SoerenAhm @MarineMicrobio @EawagResearch @mpipz_cologne
https://t.co/Co8ddRWHj0

[Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @Ettema_lab]

Or views about new strategies that could be used to culture new (yet-uncultured) microbial lineages. Great work from Will Lewis, @GuillaumeTahon, @PatriciaGeesink and @SousaDZ!

[Will Lewis @WillLew12]

@PatriciaGeesink This echoes my sentiments https://t.co/tfIxk23HKQ