Ben Jenkins

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 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

@Prokaryota @benkinsjenkins

Will be spending more time in the 🦋~Blue Place~🦋 the next weeks. If i'm not yet following you over there, post your 🦋 handle below!

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

Great couple of days with some brilliant people

@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) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mm…

Great blog post about our mammoth project to sequence over 100 coral genomes @sangerinstitute @DerbyUni sangerinstitute.blog/2024/10/02/cor… @ICRSCoralReefs @CoralSpawning

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

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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… .. Kudos to @emmafcamp & co-authors! @UniKonstanz

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

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. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

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

📢 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: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/pos… Please RT!

Cool piece about our findings on fungal zoospore motility!

@HenryLabSymbio Thanks so much, I appreciate it!

Great work by @realBenJen, Tom Richard’s and crew on host control of symbionts.

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

@realBenJen Congrats! Looking forward to reading this one 😺

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 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at VEuPathDB.org to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future 🔗veupathdb.org

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

@realBenJen Sounds like a cool story Ben. Always intriguing that glycans are at the centre of recognition

@Kaven_Martin Thank you!

@realBenJen congrats Ben

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

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 🎉

Beautiful @realBenJen , happy to see it out.