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@MelanieKRich ends her talk on the climate stripes, and with a call to action that we as scientists need to get/keep the climate and biodiversity crises at the forefront of societal conversation #EESSymbiosis

RT @JohanD13016359
Very nice and Inspiring #EESSymbiosis conference at @embl. Thanks to the organizers @AncestralState @KiersToby @mcsymbiont. HUGE congrats to the team @DanielPYee and @andreacatgrundy who won the best short talk!!!! Omg 😎 🍾🥳

RT @vincentflora
What a phenomenal meeting, sadly ending today #EESSymbiosis @embl.
Thanks @AncestralState @KiersToby @mcsymbiont for putting together such a crazy line up. Very cool vibe and beautiful science all around. Impatient for the next one !

RT @RoliRoberts
Fantastic #EESSymbiosis - many thanks to @AncestralState @KiersToby @mcsymbiont for the all-star line-up of speakers, @EMBLEvents for the infrastructure, @PLOSBiology for sending me here, and @daanspeth @metalichen for keeping Twitter nice & lively.

Excellent archaea comparative genomics paper alert

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RT @RoliRoberts
Here's the @PLOSBiology paper that @OrphanANME just namechecked at #EESSymbiosis https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001508
https://twitter.com/RoliRoberts/status/1634207895125475330

RT @RoliRoberts
Here's the @PLOSBiology paper that @OrphanANME just namechecked at #EESSymbiosis https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001508

RT @daanspeth
@tobyspribille carbon goes into polyols (sugar alcohols) mediating dessication tolerance. Water content can be as low as 3%. #EESSymbiosis If not used for nutrition, why is lichen classified as nutritional symbiosis?

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Cool work on trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei by @MauryaAnay - the host has a neofunctionalised #dynamin-like protein ETP9 which localises to division site of bacterial #endosymbiont & is needed to maintain correct #symbiont inheritance during sync'd cell division #EESSymbiosis

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Prize for most stunning image at #EESSymbiosis? @NicoleDubilier just won hands-down... amazing #FIB_SEM imaging of S-fixing #symbionts in #mussel gills - the symbionts are "in" the host cells, but topologically extracellular, in a network of channels connected to sea water.

RT @metalichen
Next, @NicoleDubilier talks about bacteria associated with mussels. 3D nanoscale reconstruction shows that the symbionts are mostly extracellular. There is an intranuclear pathogenic bacterium, which protects itself from apoptosis using genes HGT'd from the host #EESSymbiosis

RT @daanspeth
@NicoleDubilier discusses the implications of this. Much gene transfer between symbionts, and very different nutrient environment from intracellular. Working on mechanisms of membrane remodeling in host, and who induces it. #EESSymbiosis

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@NicoleDubilier found Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins in endonucleobacter. Seemingly mollusc origin. HGT from euk to bacteria is rare. Exciting! Also homologs in herpes viruses that could infect mussel host #EESSymbiosis

RT @RoliRoberts
Lucinid clams - #endosymbionts use environmental sulphide for #chemosynthesis. But some #symbiont proteins (sulphide-binding DsrC, metabolism-shunting GAPDH) are found in distant tissues, including haemolymph... how? @jillpeterplan #EESSymbiosis

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Fascinating whistle-stop tour of #Buchnera and its #aphid host by Nancy Moran #EESSymbiosis - their tiny genome, their specific evolutionary dialogue with the host #bacteriocytes (+ve selection on Buchnera OMPs, bacteriocyte-specific genes, strong within-host selection...)

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Carbon fixation by Chlorella, inside vs outside #Paramecium - @andreacatgrundy. In symbiotic form it's larger, has much higher fixation, larger energy-related organelles. Storage initially (1hr) starch, later (24hr) lipid droplets, and then... (TBC) #EESSymbiosis

RT @daanspeth
@SFI_elibby uses genome scale metabolic modelling to assess metabolic compatibility. review on modelling: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00440-4 Combines by making exterior of one cell interior of other, and shows that majority of association is theoretically feasible #EESSymbiosis

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Why are #prokaryote-within-prokaryote #endosymbioses so rare? @SFI_elibby uses genome-scale #MetabolicModels to test viability, fitness & evolvability of 1000s of bacterial pairs. Finds viability non-limiting, but fitness & evolvability severely limiting #EESSymbiosis

RT @EMBLEvents
Have you already spotted the poster you'll nominate for the #EESSymbiosis best poster prize? 🔍 🤔

RT @RoliRoberts
Day 3 at #EESSymbiosis - symbiosis megastar (and @PLOSBiology ed board member) Nancy Moran - a) remembers a time when a conference on symbiosis was unheard of, b) notes ruefully that she's the oldest person in the room...

RT @RoliRoberts
.@JonathanShik - the fascinating life of #LeafcutterAnts, farming #fungi that have swollen hyphal tips (gongylidia) which serve as nutritional reward structures (like apples). He's asking if/how ants tune the food (leaf) supply to the fungal needs... #EESSymbiosis