It’s time to announce William Lewis as the newest member of Ettema-lab! Will recently completed his PhD in Martin Embley’s lab (Newcastle University, UK) where he studied the evolution of hydrogenosomes (anaerobic mitochondria that make hydrogen) from several species of ciliates. Starting his first postdoc here in Ettema-lab his work will involve the exploration of poorly described archaeal lineages and
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Anja Spang, Laura Eme, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Eva F. Caceres, Jimmy Saw, Jonathan Lombard, Lionel Guy and Thijs J. G. Ettema In a recent contribution to PLoS Genetics entitled “Lokiarchaeota are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes”, Da Cunha et al. claim to present evidence against the findings reported in
Congratulations to our PhD student Jennah, who won the Best Poster Award (and 5000 SEK travel grant) at the SciLifeLab PhD Student Day with her Poster ‘Novel, diverse and abundant chlamydia discovered in Loki’s Castle deep marine sediments‘. Well done Jennah! /MS
Now available in the Early Edition of PNAS: Tom Williams (University of Bristol, UK) in collaboration with, among others, the Ettema-lab reports on using integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution to root the archaeal tree of life and to resolve the metabolism of the earliest archaeal cells. This study sheds new light onto archaeal genome evolution,
Tom Martin is joining the Ettema-lab as Lab Manager. He will run the practical side of the lab, manage the LIMS system and work with many different projects in the Ettema group. Tom gained his PhD from SLU in Uppsala under Christina Dixelius working with plant defence against pathogens. He then did two post-docs at
How are microbial communities assembled in the >5,000-y-old subsurface of marine sediment, and do they undergo adaptive evolution or accumulate mutations due to impaired DNA repair under such energy-limited conditions? This can be found out in the recent PNAS paper published by the Ettema-lab in collaboration with Aarhus University and MIT. To read the paper
Jonathan is joining the Ettema-lab as a postdoc to study the enigmatic evolution of cell membranes at the prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic transition. His work focuses on the evolution of metabolism in the three domains of life, with particular emphasis on lipid biosynthesis and membrane-related functions. Jonathan obtained his PhD from the University Paris-Sud (France) under the supervision
Ilja started her 2-year master Molecular Life Sciences with a specialization in bioinformatics in 2015 at the Radboud University (The Netherlands). Her first research internship was at the Comparative Genomics group of the Radboud University where she, under supervision of Martijn Huynen, made a computational tool that prioritizes genes based on human phenotypes. Ilja will do
In an international collaboration, the Ettema-lab has published a new paper in Nature about a group of archaea that gives unique insight into the evolution of cellular complexity, the Asgard archaea. Named after Nordic gods, several relatives of the previously discovered Lokiarchaeum are described in this week’s issue of Nature (paper can be found here)! If
With the start of the new year Ettema-lab welcomes a new member into their mids: Laura Eme joined us as postdoc. Laura did her PhD at Aix-Marseille University (France), under the supervision of Celine Brochier-Armanet, and a first post-doc with Andrew Roger at Dalhousie University (Canada). She will be working in Ettema-lab on the origin and early
