Ben Jenkins
@realBenJen
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Bluesky 🦋 @benkinsjenkins | Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab | EMBO SEG @guse_lab | 🦠 Paramecium | 🪸 Aiptasia
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2018
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
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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
After some time working on it, I'm very happy and proud to share our study characterising the diversity of origins of the LECA gene families! @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon @gabaldonlab
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Great couple of days with some brilliant people
Great meeting for the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership. Exciting new opportunities ahead! 🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪 @RossWaller3 @MeissnerLab @ElenaJmnezRz @Arctas_fr @siegel_lab @CicutaGroup @Susie__McLaren @Dey_Gautam @oscarbranson @rayner_julian
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RT @RossWaller3: @VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomp…
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RT @DiseaseMatters: Great blog post about our mammoth project to sequence over 100 coral genomes @sangerinstitute @DerbyUni
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RT @CamWallerLab: By using microscopy, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, @varsh_mathur and colleages present us a glimpse of a…
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RT @reefgenomics: new work: "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" -> using a human rights framework to hasten protection o…
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RT @fburki: CGUE-bond. Looking forward to meeting up with many friends and colleagues and presenting our work on plastid origins and evolut…
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RT @Luisjagago: Our study on Diphyllatea (CRuMs) is out! From our lovely trip to the South Pacific, we manage to get 4 new transcriptomes f…
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RT @varsh_mathur: Check out our new paper! Cool bugs isolated from freshwater crater lakes in the South Pacific 🤩
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RT @Venky_MVN: 📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching…
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RT @veupathdb: Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at to be…
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@McfaddenGeoff Thanks Geoff! For sure, it seems glycan processing genes show up more often as HGTs in other systems too
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RT @CamWallerLab: Check out this preprint from @realBenJen et al! Genes acquired through HGT enable Paramecium to control its algal symbio…
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