Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺

@Ettema_lab

Head of @MIB_WUR at @WUR | Intrigued by the small & under-appreciated | Microbial evolution | Transitions in the Tree of Life | follow me at @ettema.bsky.social

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Joined December 2011

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Dec 4

It was great here, but I have now jumped 🚢 to the other side. Follow me at @ettema.bsky.social Hope to see you there!

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Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social)@andrewjroger · Nov 21

My mentor, colleague, friend and all-round clever guy Ford Doolittle has just published a book "Darwinizing Gaia". I've read pieces of it an it's very thought-provoking...go out and get it! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549523/…

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gabaldonlab@gabaldonlab · Nov 12

Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized quantamagazine.org/meet-the-eukar… via @QuantaMagazine with quotes from @toni_gabaldon and @Ettema_lab Itai Budin

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Oct 10

Three weeks left to apply for this exciting PhD position focusing on eukaryotic genome evolution! Come work with us at @MIB_WUR! Please RT #PhDposition #evolution @WUR 🦠🧬🧐

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Stephan Köstlbacher@koestlste · Oct 9

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Our latest work on Escherichia coli and the regulation of DNA replication initiation via DnaA titration on the chromosome, led by Lorenzo Olivi. Here’s a thread summarizing our findings. 🧵👇 @WUR @Ettema_lab @HohlbeinLab et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Oct 9

Great work by Lorenzo Olivi, @koestlste and other colleagues from @MIB_WUR, reporting experimental and computational evidence for titration-based replication control in E. coli!

LLaboratory of Microbiology at WUR@MIB_WUR · Oct 9

Now online the latest work of Lorenzo Olivi, @koestlste @NicoC_MicSynBio @Ettema_lab @HohlbeinLab et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Mike Jetten🟥@msmjetten · Sep 12

To be repeated "ad nauseam" 🟥STOP THE BUDGET CUTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION in NL🟥 and no political dog and pony show to confuse the general public erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2024/09/04/… nos.nl/artikel/253664… .@WOinactie .@AObtweets .@FNV .@studentenbond .@tweetsunl .@LucStultiens .@jpaternotte

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Sep 10

Thrilled, honored, and grateful to receive this award from @ASMicrobiology. A huge 🙏 to my current & past team @MarineMicrobio and everyone who supported me along the way.

MMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology@MarineMicrobio · Sep 10

Congratulations to @NicoleDubilier, awardee of the 2025 ASM D.C. White Award for Interdisciplinary Research @ASMicrobiology.. 🥳👏👏🏆 .. recognizing distinguished accomplishments in interdisciplinary research & mentoring. Bravo! mpi-bremen.de/nicole-dubilie…

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Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social)@andrewjroger · Sep 10

The great David Penny's obituary: nature.com/articles/s4155…

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Julian Vosseberg@JulianVosseberg · Sep 11

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in @Nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Michael Wagner@MichiWagner4 · Aug 14

A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine So glad to see this out in @Nature today – great collaborative effort from our @FWF Cluster of Excellence, @univienna, team @aalborg_uni, and @UFZ_de nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Bettina Siebers@BettinaSiebers · Jul 9, 2024

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest manuscript tackles the longstanding debate about fatty acid synthesis in Archaea and identifies a fatty acid synthesis complex. 🧬🦠 📜 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… #Research #Archaea #FattyAcidMetabolism #BioRxiv #Science #Microbiology

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Jul 9, 2024

Glad to have been part of this tremendous effort by @koestlste @JvHooff @Ettema_lab & others! Read Stephan's thread to find out how he used protein structural predictions to discover 'isomorphic' eukaryotic signature proteins beyond what sequence similarity searches can find! 👇

SStephan Köstlbacher@koestlste · Jul 9, 2024

🚀 Identifying new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea has been a fun, exciting, at times overwhelming (so many protein structures) but fulfilling ride so far with @Ettema_lab at @MIB_WUR

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Jul 9, 2024

TThijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@Ettema_lab · Jul 5, 2024

Our latest: Using de novo protein structure prediction and sensitive sequence searches we found many new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea, suggesting the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes was more complex than previously assumed. @koestlste biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Fabai Wu Lab@fabaiwu · Jul 5, 2024

Our Viperin evolution paper is now on @NatureEcoEvo - This inspirational collaboration with the fabulous @HelenaShomar & @MDMlab_Paris explored how a structurally conserved immune gene diversify in function across the archaea-eukaryote tree of life. nature.com/articles/s4155…

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