Ancient Biology
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Astrobiology, Origins & Early Life Laboratory at the @UWMadison @UWBact. Account managed by grad students and postdocs. 🧬💻🧪🦠🌊⛰️📄☕🏳️🌈☮️🌎🪐🌟🔭
Madison, WI
Joined June 2020
📢 Latest preprint alert ➡️ Ancient proteins 🤝 Alphafold We combined phylogenetics, ancestral sequence reconstruction, crystallography and deep learning based structural prediction and resurrected three billion years of an enzyme's structural history👇
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🚀 We’ve just given our lab website a fresh new look! We plan to update it frequently. Come take a look! 🔬👇
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We welcome applicants through this program! Interested in origins and early evolution of life? Apply!
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RT @pndblog: W.M. Keck Foundation awards @UWMadison $1.3 million for multidisciplinary molecular paleontology investigation into origins of…
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RT @UWMadison: A team of #UWMadison scientists led by @UWBact professor @betulland will explore the paleoenvironments and ancient history o…
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RT @Hypothesisfund: 🍾Huge congrats to HF awardee @betulland for her recent Keck Foundation grant! 🥳 We're thrilled for her to continue to b…
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RT @betulland: Thrilled to share that our project to rebuild ancient proteins has been awarded the W. M. Keck Foundation award! We will e…
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Excited for today’s lab photoshoot! Capturing the heart of science in action—microbes with a touch of glam. Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes highlights! 💡🔬✨
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New year, new beginnings—just like RuBisCO’s small subunit! 🌱🧬 Kicking off 2025 with our first paper of the year: Evolutionary dynamics of RuBisCO: Emergence of the small subunit and its impact through time: @Kaustubh_2797 @BrZuviria @UWMadBiophysics
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Out today! 🚨 We explore how planetary oxidation ~2.5 billion years ago shaped the puzzling history of metal use in nitrogenase, key to nitrogen fixation! 🌍🔬 work led by @MorganMicro, @hollyr_rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. @UWBact
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RT @MorganMicro: I’m thrilled to be opening my lab at @txst in the @Txstbiology dept. this January!! We will be studying early microbial ec…
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RT @TimDonohue1283: RISE at the University of Wisconsin!! Many openings for faculty at any level across the campus
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RT @astrobiology: Reconstructing Early Microbial Life #astrobiology #microbiology #genomics #evolution
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