Courtney Stairs

For my science friends still around on X: The program for Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes is live! Secure your spot at the meeting by registering before May 4th! comparativegenomics2026.com/program/

@Mentimeter Hiya! I'm having trouble connecting to mentimeter, is the service down right now?

The day is finally here!! On behalf of all the co-organizers the Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes website is open. comparativegenomics2026.com Invited speakers will be added to the website in the coming weeks. Watch this (well, that^) space!

Does anyone in Europe have an axenic or monoxenic culture of Stentor, Blepharisma or Spirostomum they would be willing to share? Please DM me :)

Check out the thread below about Anaeramoeba - the case of an internal epibiont! Congrats all!!!

This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors @theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at @BrownUniversity. Olivia is a physics PhD student at @BrandeisU, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

Through AI and bioinformatics, Marie Dacke is exploring the remarkable internal compass of dung #beetles, enhancing our understanding of #navigation systems across species and inspiring new #technologies. 👉 bit.ly/3BOIuKw #AI #FrontierResearch @lunduniversity

Are you interested to use molecular and microbiological approaches to study DPANN-host interactions? Check out this postdoc position in our team at NIOZ: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-posi…

Postdoc position available to work with me, in collaboration with Chris Lane @LaneLabURI, on Nephromyces, the closest non-parasitic, extracellular symbiont relatives of the blood parasites (Plasmodium et al). How did the business of blood parasitism start? jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48203/

Our new study led by brilliant PhD student Kelsey Williamson (along with many wonderful collaborators), resolves the root of the Eukaryote Tree of Life 🌍🧬 with unmatched precision! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@environmicrobio @archaeal Here's the link journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb……

@Luisjagago @CanalUGR Woohoo!!!!!!

After 9 years abroad I am thrilled to announce I am returning to Spain to start my own line of research as a Ramón y Cajal fellow. You can find me at the ecology department of the University of Granada @CanalUGR working on heterotrophic flagellates and light sensing. More soon!

Happy to announce our paper about the GTRpmix model and exchangeability matrices designed for use with profile mixture models for eukaryote and eukaryote+archaea data sets is published: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

@McfaddenGeoff Thanks Geoff!

@cstairs We had these guys make isopentenyl diphosphate for us. Worked out well. nuchemsciences.com/about/

I'm looking for advice on synthesizing a small molecule(<200 Da) organic molecule that is not commercially available. Any advice on companies we could use to synthesize this for us? There are published protocols, but we are not chemists and other extraction methods seem tedious.

@DocDellaire Seems like such a boring project for a student (the synthesis has been published before), but i get what you mean. For our purpose needing an MS standard, I think its better to save someone the boredom and see if we can commission its synthesis. :) thanks for your thoughts!

@cstairs Write a grant - get funding to do that including a chemist. It is the manpower involved that is the sticking point for academic chemists synthesizing things. It basically has to be someone grad project. In the end, probably easier to pay for a commercial source.

📢 A fully funded 4y PhD contract at the @mncn @DPE_CSIC Madrid under my supervision, starting in early 2025. DM/Email if interested. Pls retweet 🙏

📢🎆We are hiring a postdoc to come work with mycorrhizal fungi in microfluidic soil chips to study fungal decision making at the micro-scale. Sounds intriguing? Come join us at @lunduniversity! Apply through the link below ⬇️#fungi #microfluidics #postdoc lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…

Great 🧵 by @andrewjroger summarising the PhD work of @retortacarp characterising another (probably) amitochondriate lineage. The paper has everything! great genomes, the best FeS cluster system, and beautiful images by @PsiWavefunction (check out the bonus preprint at the end).

It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. @BSPparasitology @AS_Para @ASTMH @TrendsParasitol @AmSocParasit @parasitesrule @PiParasitology