Evolutionary biologist | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow @univienna | Prev EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, JRF Brasenose College, Oxford | protists/parasites/organelles 🔬🧬
Joined August 2016
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
3 Mar 2025
🚨New paper out! 🚨
The apicoplast is an essential plastid retaining many crucial metabolic pathways 🦠🏭 However, bypassing all of them makes the apicoplast dispensable!
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
19 Feb 2025
Ultrastructure of Olkasia polycarbonata (Euglenozoa, #Euglenida) demonstrates cytoskeletal innovations associated with the feeding and flagellar apparatuses
Maia V. Palka, et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#protists #OpenAccess
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
5 Dec 2024
So proud to see our MATEdb2 paper beautifully led by @Gemmaeling highlighted in the cover of @GenomeBiolEvol! If you're interested in animal phylogenomics, don't miss this handy resource. More details here 👇 @metazomics @IBE_Barcelona
5 Dec 2024
Great to see that our paper on the newest MATEdb2 made the cover of this month's issue in @GenomeBiolEvol !!
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
6 Dec 2024
We sequenced a bunch of understudied flagellates including apusomonads, ancyromonads and one Meteora strain. Here is our version of the eukaryotic tree including them. Our study is finally out in @CurrentBiology 👇
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17 May 2024
After years of protist isolation within the @DEEMteam_Orsay we are proud to share this preprint. Here we present a version of the eukaryotic tree of life enriched for our favorite protists, water beans (Ancyromonadida) and tiny elephants (Apusomonadida): biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
3 Dec 2024
I'm extremely honoured and grateful to have received an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant. So many people have supported this effort, from my wonderful lab and colleges to the reviewers and panel members - thank you everyone! Very excited to start this project! #ERCCoG
3 Dec 2024
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out.
€678 million for 328 researchers.
Who won funding?
What will they investigate?
Where will they conduct their research?
#ERCCoG news 👉 europa.eu/!gWqYfc
🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
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27 Nov 2024
Excited for all the good things to come in the Holt Lab! Congrats @gutmicrobiome 🥂🥳
26 Nov 2024
Very excited to share that, come January, I will be joining the faculty at @UniofBath as a Lecturer/Assistant Prof! We’ll be studying all things microbiomes, harmful & beneficial host-microbe interactions, and protist diversity & evolution theholtlab.com for updates! 😁
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Nature research paper: A multicellular developmental program in a close animal relative
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta @ChandniBhickta @NChiaruttini & in co. with
@burnsajohn is finally out @Nature .
Link⏩: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Preprint⏩: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Happy to share our last publication to evaluate
the diversity and ecology of the (mostly) uncultured MAST clades, an eclectic collection of very small unpigmented protists.
How marine are Marine Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation academic.oup.com/femsec/arti…
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31 Oct 2024
Congrats @UlrichTechnau 🤩
We celebrate Alena Zíková @alena_zikova, Claudia Langenberg, Oded Beja @BejaLab, Zoltán Molnár @ZoltanMolnar64 and Ulrich Technau @UlrichTechnau who join the EMBO Membership. Congratulations and welcome!
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We celebrate Alena Zíková @alena_zikova, Claudia Langenberg, Oded Beja @BejaLab, Zoltán Molnár @ZoltanMolnar64 and Ulrich Technau @UlrichTechnau who join the EMBO Membership. Congratulations and welcome!
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More than 100 @EMBOFellows are meeting in Heidelberg. The postdoctoral fellows present their research, attend a mentoring session, receive training on a variety of topics and more. #EMBOat60
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
24 Oct 2024
Brown algae (one of the 'big 5' lineages of complex MC) display a 'developmental hourglass' of gene expression. Animals, plants and fungi have independently evolved this developmental pattern, suggesting it is a general feature of complex MC.
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26 Oct 2024
So great to be in Heidelberg this weekend for the @EMBO Fellows Meeting 2024! @EMBOFellows
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22 Oct 2024
Loved this interview. So inspirational Virginie, loved your outlook on having a co-PI team, being a woman in science and good mentorship! @CentrioleLab
22 Oct 2024
Check this one if you want to know better the @CentrioleLab ☺️☺️journals.biologists.com/jcs/…
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Our #PlanExM preprint is out! #U-ExM from 200 eukaryotes across the tree of life! Made possible with the amazing @F_Mikus & @Armanduuum @Dey_Gautam @CentrioleLab @dudin_o @embl @unige_en tinyurl.com/PlanExM1
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
10 Oct 2024
@VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomplexans, #dinoflagellates and other myzozoans that have made this group so prolific and successful. (1/3)
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Evolution of Thylakoid Structural Diversity!🌱🦠🌍
Annemarie's deep dive🤿 into the wide wild world of photosynthetic complexes and thylakoid architecture and is now available open access @AnnualReviews.
She also made beautiful figures🎨. Check it out!
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Varsha Mathur retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Transcriptomics of Diphyllatea (CRuMs) from South Pacific crater lakes confirm new cryptic clades | Luis Javier Galindo, Varsha Mathur, Hadleigh Frost, Guifré Torruella, Thomas A. Richards, Nicholas A. T. Irwin
@Luisjagago @varsh_mathur
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4 Oct 2024
Beautiful talk by @vincentflora on an intriguing diatom-ciliate interaction in the ocean! #CGUE @EMBLtrec
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