Ben Jenkins

Bluesky 🦋 @benkinsjenkins | Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab | EMBO SEG @guse_lab | 🦠 Paramecium | 🪸 Aiptasia

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

Excited and proud to share our preprint!

A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!

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https://t.co/6RWrXZ7xkH

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

@Prokaryota @benkinsjenkins

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

The genetic repertoire of early eukaryotes was shaped by horizontal gene-transfer from broader microbial interactions, including viruses! Fascinating stuff @moigilbernabeu @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon

[Moisès Bernabeu @moigilbernabeu]

After some time working on it, I'm very happy and proud to share our study characterising the diversity of origins of the LECA gene families! @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon @gabaldonlab

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

Great couple of days with some brilliant people

[WallerLab @CamWallerLab]

Great meeting for the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership. Exciting new opportunities ahead! 🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪
@RossWaller3 @MeissnerLab @ElenaJmnezRz @Arctas_fr @siegel_lab @CicutaGroup @Susie__McLaren @Dey_Gautam @oscarbranson @rayner_julian

[Ross Waller @RossWaller3]

@VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomplexans, #dinoflagellates and other myzozoans that have made this group so prolific and successful. (1/3)
https://t.co/RvIRPK1vDA

[Prof. Michael Sweet @DiseaseMatters]

Great blog post about our mammoth project to sequence over 100 coral genomes @sangerinstitute @DerbyUni https://t.co/jVpkKr8Q14 @ICRSCoralReefs @CoralSpawning

[WallerLab @CamWallerLab]

By using microscopy, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, @varsh_mathur and colleages present us a glimpse of a very understudied group of organisms like diatoms and their parasites.
#CGUE

[Christian R Voolstra @reefgenomics]

new work: "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" -> using a human rights framework to hasten protection of coral reefs & highlighting the strong ties to human well-being https://t.co/0upRDW35sa .. Kudos to @emmafcamp & co-authors! @UniKonstanz

[Fabien Burki @fburki]

CGUE-bond. Looking forward to meeting up with many friends and colleagues and presenting our work on plastid origins and evolution @ERC_Research

[Luis Javier Galindo @Luisjagago]

Our study on Diphyllatea (CRuMs) is out! From our lovely trip to the South Pacific, we manage to get 4 new transcriptomes from cells found in freshwater crater lakes.
https://t.co/UooyacKa5i

[Varsha Mathur @varsh_mathur]

Check out our new paper! Cool bugs isolated from freshwater crater lakes in the South Pacific 🤩

[Vengamanaidu M @Venky_MVN]

📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc
Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 @thembauk
⏳Deadline 25th October 2024
ℹ️ Details: https://t.co/zWUsYlMJkd
Please RT!

[Luis Javier Galindo @Luisjagago]

Cool piece about our findings on fungal zoospore motility!

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

@HenryLabSymbio Thanks so much, I appreciate it!

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

@micro_megs Thanks Meghan! I'm super proud of how this all came together

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

Excited and proud to share our preprint!

A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!

1/10

https://t.co/6RWrXZ7xkH

[VEuPathDB @veupathdb]

Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at https://t.co/Q8mRxg03v2 to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future
🔗https://t.co/mtCOVYSVMZ

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

@McfaddenGeoff Thanks Geoff! For sure, it seems glycan processing genes show up more often as HGTs in other systems too

[Ben Jenkins @realBenJen]

@Kaven_Martin Thank you!

[Yasin Dagdas @PlantoPhagy]

Awesome 🤩 story! Kudos @realBenJen & everyone involved!!!

[WallerLab @CamWallerLab]

Check out this preprint from @realBenJen et al! Genes acquired through HGT enable Paramecium to control its algal symbionts through a complex network of glycan sensing 🦠 Congratulations to all authors on this exciting discovery 🎉

[Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ @dudin_o]

Beautiful @realBenJen , happy to see it out.