–NEWS–
October 5th, 2024
Congrats Julie – Poster Prize! 🎉
We are proud to announce that Julie won a Poster Prize at the 2024 CGUE Conference on Unicellular Eukaryotes for her work on Breviate Genomics: A Gateway to Obazoan Evolution. Her research provides insights into Obazoan evolution and sheds light on the origins of multicellularity.
June 19th, 2024
Congrats to Allen – Again!
On the 19th of June, Allen Williamson successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Visualization of RNA Transcripts Within Live Eukaryotic Cells.” Allen’s research focused on adapting an innovative molecular beacon technique to visualize RNA transcripts in live protists.
May 3rd, 2024
Congrats to Allen – Best Talk Prize at Protistology Nordics!!
Congrats to Allen who took home the Best Talk Prize at Protistology Nordics this year in Uppsala. Allen told us about their work on live FISH in protists!
April 15th, 2024
Welcome Anastasiia!!
Anastasiia Borodina is visiting our lab from Filip Husnik’s team at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Anastasiia will be working with Allen and Karla to learn more about FISH and anaerobic culturing.
November 29th, 2023
Thank you Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse!!
Courtney was recently awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship to study microorganisms that live in the expanding low-oxygen zones of our planet. What an honour!! Read more about the research programme here and get in touch if you’d like to join our team as part of our BREATHLESS MICROBES project.
November 27th, 2023
Halfway there!
Karla successfully presented her halfway report of her PhD project and her first manuscript. Thank you, committee members and opponent Dr. Catherine Paul for the useful feedback and great discussions. Congrats Karla!!
New paper alert!
Massive intein content in Anaeramoeba reveals aspects of intein mobility in eukaryotes
Lucie Gallot-Lavallee, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Paula Zegarra-Vidarte, Dayana E Salas-Leiva, Courtney W Stairs, Ivan Cepicka, Andrew J. Roger, John M Archibald
Proceedings for the National Academy of Science: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306381120
November 23rd, 2023
New paper alert!
Comparative analysis of mitochondrion-related organelles in anaerobic amoebozoans
Kristína Záhonová, Zoltán Füssy, Courtney W. Stairs, Michelle M. Leger, Jan Tachezy, Ivan Čepička6, Andrew J. Roger, Vladimír Hampl
Microbial Genomics: doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001143
November 16th, 2023
Grants awarded to Julie, Marco, and Sofia
Julie
My research project, which focuses on advancing microbial genomics through the integration of long-read sequencing for improved taxonomic and metagenomic analysis, has recently received funding from the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. Thanks to this grant, we’ll introduce the Oxford Nanopore PromethION 2 Solo long read sequencer to our research arsenal, enhancing our capacity to study microbial eukaryotes and prokaryotes through metabarcoding, metagenomics, and whole genome assembly.
Marco
Recently my research project, aimed at understanding microbial interactions in low-oxygen environments, has received funding from the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. This initiative seeks to understand the dynamics within oxygen-deprived marine microbial communities, focusing on the biology of organisms in anaerobic and microaerophilic conditions and deducing the rules that govern their symbiotic interactions.
Sofia
I was recently awarded a scientific grant from “Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund” to develop transcriptomic methods to unveil the functional implications of a recently identified gene in freshwater sponges. This gene, potentially laterally transferred from eukaryotic microbes, holds a pivotal role in anaerobic metabolism.
Read more about our research here: Our Research
November 15th, 2023
Congratulations to Ada Behncke Serra – Master of Science (and breviates!)
On November 15th, Ada succesfully defended her MSc thesis entitled “Electron Acceptors Influence Protist Growth Dynamics In An Anaerobic Microbial Consortium”. Ada’s studied how microcosms of breviate protists grow in the presence of different electron acceptors as part of our ERC #TangO2Lund project. Congrats Ada!!!!
October 15th , 2023
Welcome Viktor!!
Viktor joins the lab as a bioinformatician as part of our ERC Starting grant #Tango2Lund project.
October 4th, 2023
New paper alert!
Adaptation of the late ISC pathway in the anaerobic mitochondrial organelles of Giardia intestinalis
Alžběta Motyčková, Luboš Voleman, Vladimíra Najdrová, Lenka Arbonová, Martin Benda, Vít Dohnálek, Natalia Janowicz, Ronald Malych, Róbert Šuťák, Thijs JG Ettema, Staffan Svärd, Courtney W Stairs, Pavel Doležal
PLoS Pathogens: doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010773
September 14th, 2023
Vetenskapsdagarna 2023: Lund Cathedral celebrates 900 years, with the Asgards archaea and the evolution of life
Courtney visited the Lund Cathedral to talk about Metagenomics, Asgard archaea, Evolution and why its fun to play in the mud to 350 high school students. Read more about this event here: Outreach.
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