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Research Scientist Baker Lab @archaeal @UTMSI / @texas_IB / microbial informatician/ Mexican/ 1st Gen/Views are my own Incoming faculty @UF at @UF_MCS

Austin TX

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Valerie De Anda

2 months

Thrilled to announce that I'll be an Asst Professor at @UF_MCS starting this fall🥳 As 1st gen, female, and Mexican, the odds were against me, & at times, I thought it would be impossible. Thanks to the support of family, friends, colleagues, & mentors we changed the odds! 🥹🙌🫶

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

4 years ago one of my PhD committee members told me that I suck at science. 3 years later my first-authored publication was internationally awarded. Now as a first-year postdoc, I've received 2 early-career scientist awards representing #womanSTEM #LatinAmerica #Microbiologist

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Sarafina El-Badry Nance, PhD

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5 years

4 years ago I got a 0 on a quantum physics exam. i met with my professor fearing i needed to change my major & quit physics. today, i’m in a top tier astrophysics Ph.D program & published 2 papers. STEM is hard for everyone—grades don’t mean you’re not good enough to do it.

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Valerie De Anda

3 months

This little Mexican girl was obsessed with geological time, microbes, and the Mr. DNA molecule. 🧬 She didn’t know she could be a scientist, and despite the odds she became one.

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Against the odds of being #URM ( #mexican #woman #firstgen ), having autonomic dysfunction and working through a pandemic, one of my dreams came true: my 1st-author high impact journal paper is now out in @NatureComms . 🥳🙌 1/4

Brockarchaeota, a novel archaeal phylum with unique and versatile carbon cycling pathways

Nature Communications - Geothermal environments are hotspots for carbon cycling. Here, De Anda et al. reconstruct archaeal genomes from terrestrial and deep-sea geothermal sediments, and propose...

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Super excited to see this monumental work out today in @Nature ! We traced the roots of eukaryotes back to a common Asgard ancestor (Hod) and shed light on the metabolic journey to complex life! @Ettema_lab @eme_laura @DanielTamarit @dh5alfa @archaea

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Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

Nature - Analyses of multiple phylogenetic marker datasets of Asgard archaea provide insight into the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, specifically placing eukaryotes within Asgard...

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

You guys! My H1B visa got approved! 🇺🇸✅ and will receive it in 1-2 weeks 🥹 After a year-long process, the paperwork is finally over!!!!!💪🏼 Grateful for all the support @archaeal and UT 🤩

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Hello #metagenomics world! MEBS now has a new module: genomic completeness 🧬 With that I’m excited to announce the 1st open MEBS workshop! Join me next week to learn how to use the program MEBS to understand the metabolic potential of large omics datasets

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Excited to share the newest Baker lab preprint. We recovered 5 novel overlooked, globally distributed bacterial lineages that have considerably novel protein composition & reminds us there is much to be learned about microbial diversity in marine sediments!

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Brett Baker

2 years

New preprint from my lab indicates we have a lot to learn about marine diversity "New globally distributed bacteria with high proportions of novel protein families involved in sulfur and nitrogen cycling" @val_deanda @jhcepas @MAGgie_Langwig @alvarordr

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Check out our newest research from the Baker lab @archaeal @UTMSI in @NatureComms ! 🎉 We describe novel bacteria phyla named after amazing female deep sea explorers! @SeepExplorer @OrphanANME Ruth Blake and Raquel Negrete-Aranda. Great collab w/ @jhcepas @alvarordr @cgmlaboratory

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Brett Baker

2 years

New global sediment bacteria phyla with unusual large proportion of novel protein families. named Orphanbacterota @OrphanANME , Joyebacterota @SeepExplorer , Arandabacterota - Raquel Negrete-Aranda, and Blakebacterota - Ruth Blake

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Now that I have my DS-2019 form, I'm SO excited to officially announce that I'm becoming a Research Associate in the Baker Lab starting in September. 🥳🥂👩‍🔬🧬 Thank you @archaeal for this great opportunity! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #WomenInScience #LatinxInSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Our newest research @Rambomics , @MAGgie_Langwig @Leao_pel @archaeal describingfor the first time the Asgard archeal virome is out in @NatureMicrobiol !🎉 A 🧵

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Brett Baker

2 years

Introducing viruses that infect Asgard archaea, named after mythological creators SKOL Nidhogg Ratoskr Fenrir. These relatively large viral genomes have characteristics of euk viruses, as mystery as their hosts!

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Thrilled to share the preprint of my 1st-author paper during my postdoc at the Baker lab🙌. Thanks to @archaeal for the wonderful opportunity and the amazing coauthors @n_dombrowski @CHENLIN @BanfieldLab to make this possible! Hopefully, we receive some good news soon🤞🤞🤞

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Brett Baker

4 years

Brockarchaeota, a novel archaeal lineage capable of methylotrophy preprint with @val_deanda @BanfieldLab @n_dombrowski @ChenLinxing

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Valerie De Anda

8 days

Two Asgard papers out today! Exciting discoveries about Asgard archaea are now in @NatureComms ! A 🧵👇

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Excited for my upcoming talk at the Metagenomic Forum discussing ongoing/recent studies in the Baker lab expanding our understanding of novel #bacteria and #archaea from marine sediments @archaeal #metagenomics #microbialecology #womenInSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Extremly proud of @didibojanova - her 1st PhD thesis chapter is out in @ISME !🎉 🙌 Do you want to know if there’s biological CH4 in the deep subsurface ? - Our multidisciplinary study at Guaymas Basin reveals microbial methane's hidden role. Plz RT! 👇🏼

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Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin

The ISME Journal - Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Yesterday my update to "PI status" was approved by the Uni @UTAustin 🥳 It all happened really fast that I didn't get the chance to make it official on Twitter and say hello to the PI world! Excited about our future grant proposals @archaeal ! #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

2 months

Excited to share our latest work in @MicrobialBiote1 @archaeal Opinion article: "Beyond methane, new frontiers in anaerobic microbial hydrocarbon utilizing pathways", Led by @Asgard_Archaea @EmilyRaeHyde Proud of you girls! 🙌🥳🫶 Open access 👇

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

The Baker Lab ( @archaeal ) is ready for the #WorldMicrobeForum !💪🏼 If you want to know more about: @Rambomics - #asgard #viruses @katy_appler - asgard #archaea diversity @Leao_pel - #scicomm @IntMicroDay @MirnaVRL - hydrocarbon bacteria Join us!! @FEMSmicro @ASMicrobiology

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Valerie De Anda

9 months

Our latest #Asgard preprint is out!🙌 Closed genomes of Freyarchaeia & the previously uncharacterized Atabeyarchaeia indicate key roles in wetland soil carbon cycling. Led by @luisarchaeota & @katy_appler @BanfieldLab @archaeal See 🧵by @luisarchaeota

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Valerie De Anda

6 years

Happy to present a new archaeal Phylum #Brockarchaeota at the TX ASM

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Valerie De Anda

4 months

Grateful to be part of this expedition on board @WHOl vessel @RV_Atlantis led by @SeepExplorer . We've already set up the lab, did emergency training, watch the eclipse and we're ready to do some science! @KarthikGeomicro , @environmicrobio @archaeal @MAGgie_Langwig #GulfofCali2024

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Valerie De Anda

4 months

My first dive to Guaymas is tomorrow!!🥹😭❤️🌊 Brett @archaeal and I will be diving 2km below the surface to collect sediment samples and sequence them onboard the @RV_Atlantis #GulfofCali2024 Don’t miss out the live stream! Plz RT! ‼️

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UTMSI

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Join our LIVE stream via UTMSI Facebook or Zoom on April 17, 9:45 am CT, led by @MAGgie_Langwig . Watch Drs. Brett Baker @archaea and @val_deanda aboard @RV_Atlantis . Meeting ID: 815 0122 1114 Passcode: 334982 #AlvinSub #GulfofCali2024 #TexasScience

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

My mom called me to say: Finally I’m going to be able to get my visa to visit you ❤️❤️ I couldn't help crying!!! I’m so happy!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Yesterday I was incredibly nervous to give this talk in my native language Spanish after 2 years of presenting in English. Today I received several emails from Latin American students sharing that my talk inspired and motivated them to pursue STEM degrees. I couldn't be happier!

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Solaria Biodata

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4 years

¡Agradecemos enormemente a @val_deanda por su magnífico seminario! 👏👏👏 ¡Para ver la retransmisión, puedes seguir esta liga y seguirnos por Youtube! #Webinar #Microbiology #Bioinformatics #Science

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Thrilled to share our most recent work. The most up-to-date archaea tree of life. @archaeal @UTMSI @n_dombrowski @KileyWSeitz

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Brett Baker

4 years

A new review I wrote with the help of 5 fantastic female archaeologists, "Diversity, ecology, and evolution of archaea" @n_dombrowski @SantoroLab @archaearama @val_deanda @KileyWSeitz

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

We made it! The Baker lab is officially in Austin! @archaeal @Rambomics @Leao_pel @itsJDCarlton

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Beyond thrilled to be heading out on a research cruise with the amazing @jcamthrash lab! & I get to share this adventure w/ the wonderful @katy_appler and @em_aguilarpine ❤️ Stay tuned for all the fun and exciting updates from the Baker lab @archaeal 🚢🌊🐬 🧬 #adventureawaits

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Valerie De Anda

6 years

3° chapter of my PhD thesis is out in Springer. Here we summarize the astonishing diversity of prokaryotes responsible for driving the sulfur cycle and recapitulate the history of early life on Earth

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Valerie De Anda

8 months

I am so happy to se the amazing work of my dear friends and colleagues @alvarordr @jhcepas @cpcantalapiedra out in @Nature ! Congratulations !!!!! 🥳 Don't miss the 🧵by led author 👇

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Jaime Huerta-Cepas

8 months

Our study on the biological relevance of novel microbial gene families is out today. Peer review & comments really improved our 2022 preprint: better func. predictions, experimental validations, structural models & impact on microbiome association studies.

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Valerie De Anda

11 months

Our newest research from the Baker Lab @archaeal in collab w/ Gutierrez Lab @HeriotWattUni is out today in @mbiojournal ! Interested in #ocean #hydrocarbon degradation & SIP- #metagenomics ? Don't miss out. RT @MirnaVRL @UTAustin @texas_IB @UTMSI #oceans

Exploring novel alkane-degradation pathways in uncultured bacteria from the North Atlantic Ocean |...

Petroleum pollution in the ocean has increased because of rapid population growth and modernization, requiring urgent remediation. Our understanding of the metabolic response of native microbial...

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

I’m overjoyed to share our first insights into the viruses that infect asgard archaea! They have so many unique features! I’m so happy to be part of this amazing group of scientists! @Rambomics @MAGgie_Langwig @archaeal #asgard #archaea #viruses @UTMSI @UTAustin

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Brett Baker

3 years

Excited to share our first look at Asgard viruses that infect a variety of lineages from the deep sea. They are just as fascinating as their hosts!! Great work by @Rambomics @val_deanda @MAGgie_Langwig

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Thrilled to share this ms led by our amazing undergraduate-turned-master @itsJDCarlton ! We describe two new globally distributed and abundant classes in Armatimonadota and expand its metabolic and ecological roles @MAGgie_Langwig @em_aguilarpine @KileyWSeitz @archaeal

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Brett Baker

1 year

Our new publication about new bacteria predominant in marine sediments. Named after the Mayan god Zipacna. They are globally distributed and abundant @itsJDCarlton @val_deanda @em_aguilarpine @MAGgie_Langwig @KileyWSeitz

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Valerie De Anda

4 months

First Alvin dive! @SeepExplorer and Carmen Millan-Motolinia went down 3700m below the surface to collect these beautiful cores that Silvia from @environmicrobio lab @archaeal and I were able to characterize! Now we are ready to sequence them onboard @RV_Atlantis #GulfofCali2024

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Thomas Brocks’ pioneer work on life in extreme environments inspired me and scientists around the world. We were inspired by your dedication to understanding the world around us and the extreme limits of life. This manuscript is dedicated to your legacy #ThomasBrock .

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Brett Baker

3 years

With some sadness, I announce the publication of new Archaea recovered from hot springs around the world. Named Brockarchaeota in honor of microbio pioneer Thomas Brock. Tom recently passed away, but told me he was honored

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Catching up with friends/collaborators via zoom for 2 years is not the same than catching up in person 🥹☕️ @DanielTamarit Looking forward to meet up again in a few weeks in Switzerland🇨🇭 with the rest of the the Baker ( @archaeal ) and Ettema lab’s ( @Ettema_lab ) at #ISME18 🙌

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

No se pierdan el Congreso Latinoamericano del Microbioma del 28-30 de Julio Organizada por Esperanza Martínez-Romero ganadora del premio L’Oreal-UNESCO 2020 y Luis Servín Garcidueñas. joven embajador de @ASMicrobiology @ccg_unam @UNAM_MX

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Congreso Latinoamericano del Microbioma, 28-30 de julio 2021.

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Grant rejected 🥺 My first NSF grant as PI w/an incredible group of scientists @SeepExplorer @edward_marcotte @archaeal got declined today I knew it was unlikely to get it on 1st try, but still … 😢💔 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

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Valerie De Anda

2 months

We find you @markowenmartin ! Thank you for our amazing souvenirs🤩❤️ @MicrobialCentrism , #ASMicrobe @ASMicrobiology #TardiDoc @carolina_micro

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Baker lab ladies made it to Lausanne! @katy_appler @RobinRohwer #ISME18 @archaeal

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Valerie De Anda

6 years

Starting to process the recently collected deep sea samples by @archaeal . Now all I want for X-mas is good quality DNA.

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Today I had the amazing opportunity to talk about the work that we do in the #BakerLab @archaeal 👩‍💻🧬🔬🧪 at @LamontEarth . #ColumbiaUniversity . Despite being friday afternoon I got so many good questions! Thanks to the #geochemistry department for the invitation #postdoclife

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Do you want to know more about Mexican Women in Computational Biology and #Bioinformatics ? Join this 2nd Symposium of Computational Biology organized by @IFC_UNAM June 8-10 Join here #ComputationalBiology #MexicanPower #WomenInScience #WomenWhoCode

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Soccer players like Ronaldo make $64million/year compared to a scientist in Spain $30K/year, or a postdoc in the USA $50/year. In times like this, I hope people realize how important and necessary #research and #scientist are in this world. #COVID19 #coronavirus

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Beyond thrilled to see @Ettema_lab Keynote lecture at #ISME18 talking about the amazing collaboration I’ve been lucky enough to be part of. Excited to see the ancestral reconstruction of the metabolism of Asgards 🥰❤️ @eme_laura @DanielTamarit @cstairs @archaeal

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Here we describe a new Archaea group recovered from geothermal environments around the world: #Brockarchaeota named in honor of the pioneer microbiologist #ThomasBrock , who recently passed away (April 4).

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Today I gave my first In-person seminar at the @UA_Universidad after two years of online talks 💻 I really missed the close interaction with people 🥲 Thank you @frovalera and @ManuelMart_79 for the invitation and everybody who attended the talk🥰 #AcademicChatter #WomenSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

We did a thing! Our 1st expedition, 1st station & 1st sediment core collection in the Gulf 🌊 @em_aguilarpine @katy_appler . So excited and grateful for this amazing experience @jcamthrash @jordantcoelho @zackhenning4 @ShelbyJBarnes1 @archaeal #thrashlab #micrO2respir #bakerlab

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Cameron Thrash

1 year

First station today. Baker lab all muddy, action shots of lab work. @ShelbyJBarnes1 @zackhenning4 @jordantcoelho @val_deanda @katy_appler @em_aguilarpine

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

The 6th International Symposium on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism #ISMSM is finally happening in Antwerp 🇧🇪 Excited to be here with @MAGgie_Langwig & @KatieKlierMicro from @AnantharamanLab 🧬 So grateful for the invitation & @FEMSmicro for the Early Career Scientist support! 🤩

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Thank you very much @FEMSTweets @ASMicrobiology ! I am deeply honored to have been selected for this award. Special thanks to @archaeal and @UTMSI for your tremendous support.

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FEMS

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Congratulations to Dr Valerie de Anda @val_deanda Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, for winning the FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award 2019 for Early Career Scientists. #FEMS2019 @ASMicrobiology

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Newest Baker lab preprint! 📢 We provide the 1st insights into the #microbial taxa and #metabolisms of San Francisco Bay, the largest estuary on the western coast of 🇺🇸 Our study can be a crucial baseline for understanding microbial responses to #climatechange in #estuaries !

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Brett Baker

1 year

New research from my group detailing microbial communities across San Francisco Bay "Metabolic capacity is maintained despite shifts in microbial diversity in estuary sediments" @MAGgie_Langwig @val_deanda @sunny_sneed @KarthikGeomicro @caf_stanford

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Environmental #microbiologist and #bioinformaticians from Eslovenia, Rusia, USA, México and Taiwan at #FEMS2019 . If you are a #womaninscience doing #bioinformatics at #Fems2019 Let me know!I don't want to be the only one in the picture. #womanSTEM #femstweets

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Are you attending the #WorldMicrobeForum ? We want to create a fun environment to consolidate ideas about all the open questions that arise when we start to mine the microbial world Join @kcwrighton and I in this live session! @FEMSmicro @ASMicrobiology

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Congratulations to the new Dr. @Rambomics . I’m so proud of you! ❤️

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Interested in pangenomes? Check out the latest version of #get_homologues ! Developed by @BrunoContrerasM and @pvinmex at @EEAD_CSIC and @ccg_unam , it's a must-have tool for pan-genomic analysis. Don't miss out! #genomics #bioinformatics #pangenomes #github

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Released #get_homologues v3.6.1 shipping with faster, smaller ncbi-blast-2.14.0+ binaries, fetch it from Or clone the repo and run $ make install Please let us know if you find problems @pvinmex

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Valerie De Anda

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Day 2. The Thrash @jcamthrash & Baker lab @archaeal made it to @LUMCONscience , and we're all geared up to do some science at sea! The boat is loaded, the lab is set up, and we're ready to dive in 🌊🔬 #science #microbiologist #oceanexploration @em_aguilarpine @katy_appler

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

No se vale solo apoyar a la ciencia cuando se necesita desarrollar una vacuna. La ciencia básica es fundamental para el desarrollo de cualquier país y ahora el mundo está sufriendo por que la ciencia no ha sido prioridad y ESO DEBE DE CAMBIAR! #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo 🧪 🧬 🔬

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Valerie De Anda

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She dreamed big, and believed she could study extreme environments. But she never thought she would have the opportunity to one day explore the deep ocean in the Alvin submersible #womenInScience #deepseaexploration #WomenEmpowerment

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Thrilled to see our research making waves worldwide 🌎 ❤️ Specially when featuring the Asgard artwork brought to life by the talented, beautiful and badass illustrator, my def cousin @Peika10 🎨✨ in collab w/ the amazing team at UT @TexasScience 👇🏼

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Dr. Trang TH Nguyen (she/her)

1 year

“We are all Asgardians (as in the Norse gods)!”, Dr. @daniel_vaulot walked us through of the origin of eukaryotes 😁 Microbial ecologists on this side of the globe are gathering at ASIAME3 in Quy Nhon, Vietnam! Stay tuned!

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Valerie De Anda

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It's official! I am super happy to know that @MirnaVRL will be the new postdoc of the Bakers Lab @archaeal ! This totally deserves a toast!

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Valerie De Anda

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If you're interested in network motifs, network analisis rare biosphere and inferring complex metabolic machineries, come to see my Poster426A #ISME17

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

My brother got a big tumor detected (2kg), he had internal bleeding, surgeons removed a piece of intestine, stomach & appendix. Good news is not cancer! He is weak but he is recovering. Thank you all for your good wishes and support during this difficult time. ❤️

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

The baker lab @archaeal held a microbial ecology workshop for undergrads. We extracted DNA and RNA from sediment cores and analyze sequence data. The workshop was run entirely by women! Happy #womanscienceday #WomenInSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Baker lab moving updates: ✅ Getting the uhaul ✅ Pack half of the office/lab ✅ Pack my apt and say goodbye to my amazing friends 😢💔 ✅ Start the road trip to Austin @Rambomics @archaeal

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Do you want to know more about the ancestor that gave rise to complex life? 👀🍄🌻🙋 Don't miss out this epic quest to locate Eukaryotes in the Tree of life. We provide exciting pieces of the eukaryogenesis puzzle! @Ettema_lab @eme_laura @DanielTamarit @dh5alfa @archaeal

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Brett Baker

1 year

Our latest offering in the Asgard saga. We are beginning to see the transitions from archaea to eukaryotes in metabolism, genome structure, and cell biology! Led by @Ettema_lab @eme_laura @val_deanda @DanielTamarit @cstairs

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

In honor of International #WomenInScienceDay on February 11th, I will be highlighting some posts of my beautiful, strong, smart and dedicated early-career scientist friends and colleagues from around the world starting now. Stay tuned! #NoMoreMatildas #WomenSTEM #WomenInScience

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Couldn’t be happier for all the recent achievements of the grad students in the Baker lab @Rambomics successfully defended his PhD thesis and submitted his dissertation 👨‍🎓 @katy_appler passed her candidacy with ease 🧬 And @itsJDCarlton just got a very prestigious fellowship 🎉

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Last week the Baker lab @archaeal presented at #WorldMicrobeForum . Although it was online, we still had the conference vibes to celebrate @katy_appler outstanding student poster award. Congratulations Katy!🥳🙌🎖️ @Rambomics @MirnaVRL @Leao_pel @FEMSmicro @ASMicrobiology

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

Muchas gracias por darme la oportunidad de participar en el primer workshop virtual de @RLadiesXalapa ! 👩‍💻y sobretodo gracias las participantes de #RLadies !! Todo el contenido del workshop está publicamente disponible 👇

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R-Ladies Xalapa

4 years

Agradecemos a la Dra. @val_deanda por compartir sus conocimientos con la comunidad de #RLadies , en este maravilloso workshop sobre «Visualización de redes con visNetwork». 💜💜💜 Y a todas las participantes de #RLadies , como siempre, muchas gracias por estar ✨✨✨

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Why is it important to recognize the contributions of #WomenInSTEM ? Check out this post about our recently described FCB bacteria named after brilliant scientists: Mandy Joye @SeepExplorer , Victoria Orphan @OrphanANME , Ruth Blake and Raquel Negrete Aranda #RepresentationMatters

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Prominent female #deepsea scientists get novel phyla named in their honor #TexasScience #UTMSI

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

I'm happy to announce that the 1st online #MEBS workshop is available on my YouTube channel 👇 The content of the workshop is divided into 5 videos listed in the MEBS readme. Spread the word and have fun analyzing your microbes!

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

So lucky to receive my first #COVID19 #vaccine dose the same day I got back to Texas. #vaccinated #PfizerVaccine #FirstDose #Covid #VaccinesSaveLives Can’t wait for in person lab meetings after a year of zoom @archaeal @Rambomics @Leao_pel @MirnaVRL

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Excited to be part of the session "The expanding Archaeal Tree of Life" ASM Microbe in Chicago this year

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Brett Baker

5 years

ASM Microbe in Chicago is going to be exciting! Check out this session entitled, “The Expanding Archaeal Tree of Life” with @Ettema_lab @val_deanda @hiro_imachi where we will be hearing about all sort of new archaea include Asgards and Brockarchaeota.

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Congratulations @kristie_tanner for such an amazing #PhD defense! 5 MSS and #Cumlaude @UV_EG . Congrats to your amazing advisors @ManuelPorcar1 @JuliPereto and @CVilanova1 . Thanks for giving me the opportunity to be a tiny part of it ❤️ @DarwinBioprosp Enhorabuena! 🥳🙌

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Valerie De Anda

11 months

📢 New preprint from the Baker Lab lead by @Leao_pel ! Life on Earth battled viral infections using defense systems (DS). But what about DS in the archaea that gave rise to complex life? 🤔 We provide some insights into eukaryotic immunity 🛡️ Check this must-read 🧵by @archaeal

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Brett Baker

11 months

Excited to share preprint looking at viral defense systems in Asgard archaea! It reveals their roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes. Led by @Leao_pel w/ @katy_appler @val_deanda @em_aguilarpine @KathrynPCurrie1 a thread...

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

I didn’t have the opportunity to hug my family or friends to celebrate my birthday today, but at least I made my own tacos al pastor. That made me so happy! #quarantinebirthday

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Omg! This is amazing! Congratulations to my dearest friend @nonresidentdesi for receiving the Tom Brock award at #ISME18 🎉🥳🎊🙌 You are amazing Glen! Very well deserved 🎊

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Christian Kost

2 years

Congratulations Glen for receiving the Tom Brock award for one of the best presentations presented by a postdoctoral researcher at #isme18 @nonresidentdesi This is very well-deserved 🥂🥳👍

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Our brilliant high school student at the Baker lab @archaeal , Akhil is giving a hands-on python workshop for beginners. 5 classes, 90 min each. Monday 16-20 of May from 4-5:30pm CST Registration link and description👇 Please RT! #Python #programming

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

My cousin @Peika10 lost her job during this pandemic and now she is illustrating for a living. She is an incredibly talented young artist. Here, she pictured the Baker lab @archaeal @MirnaVRL @Rambomics in the Alvin submersible heading to a deep sea hydrothermal vent!

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Yes! Come to the Extreme environments workshop at #FEMS2019 I'm going to be talking about a globally distributed archaeal phylum that has been overlooked in metagenomic and 16S diversity studies #Brockarchaeota July 8 14:30 – 17:00 Clyde Auditorium

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Brett Baker

5 years

Come and learn about a new global archaeal phylum, Brockarchaeota by @val_deanda in Extreme environments Tuesday 8 July 2019 14:30 – 17:00 Clyde Auditorium #FEMS2019

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Happy to be back at the Ecology Institute #UNAM and received my PhD diploma #SummaCumLaude

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Me: Great! an Underrepresented Minority Fellowship, I'm sure I tick all the boxes! Minority Fellowship description: -Currently working at a U.S. institution✅ -Hispanic or Latino, American Indian other minorities✅ -U.S. Citizen or permanent resident with a Green Card

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

Thank you so much @FEMSmicro for adding Spanish subtitles to my interview in #Fems2019 . Now I can share a little bit of what I'm passionate about with my mom and non-English speaking fam. This means a lot to me! Thank you!

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Dr Valerie De Anda: 99% Of All The Microorganisms Are Not Known...

FEMS2019 - Building Communities - The 8th Congress of European MicrobiologistsCo-Hosted with the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM): https://sfam.org.uk...

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Wrapped up day 2 on the Pelican @LUMCONscience . The #Bakerlab , collected more sediment cores, did lab prep, and caught a stunning sunset 🌅 But the highlight? Baby dolphins!! ❤️😍🐬 #thrashlab #micr0respir @jcamthrash @archaeal @em_aguilarpine , @katy_appler #sciencing

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Cameron Thrash

1 year

Views from the second day of cruising. All’s well. #micrO2respir #NSFfunded

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Thank you @ScienceNews @CarolynGramling for this interview, and @GCACTAATTGAGAAC for your encouraging and positive comments 🥰 “It’s twofold interesting — it’s a new phylum and a new metabolism,” says Luke McKay, a microbial ecologist of extreme environments at @montanastate

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Science News

3 years

“Every time you sequence more DNA, you realize that there’s more that you weren’t able to see the first time.”

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Excited for this paper after Sinje's talk at the sulfur symposium! #ISMSM . It highlights a potential archaeal origin of DsrABCMK(N). A must-read for sulfur enthusiasts! 📚 Congrats Sinje @InsCardosoPere1 and Filipa! 🎉

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Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction

The ISME Journal - Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

I'm so excited to be part of the 6th International #Symposium on #Microbial #Sulfur #Metabolism ( #ISMSM ) in Antwerp 10-13 April 2022. See the program and full list of speakers here👇 Don't forget to submit your abstract by Dec 15 2021. See you in Belgium🇧🇪

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3 years

From Vienna 2018 to Antwerp 2022 Very excited about the announcement of the 6th International Symposium on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism 🤩 A key event for every sulfur microbe scientist #ISMSM #ISMSM6 #SulfurCycle 👇 Please RT

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Valerie De Anda

6 years

s finally out! We provide evidence that suggests that a large taxonomic diversity with low modularity, the presence of permanent of low-abundant taxa, and an increase in competition can be potential buffers against environmental disturbance

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Frontiers | Understanding the Mechanisms Behind the Response to Environmental Perturbation in...

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Valerie De Anda

5 years

I could not be more proud and happy for my #PhDadvisor from #Mexico @valeriasouzaccb who was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences @americanacad alongside with #Darwin #Oppenheimer and #ThomasJefferson ! #womanSTEM #MexicanScientist

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UNAM

5 years

#Bolet ínUNAM Valeria Souza Saldívar, #ExpertaUNAM que trabaja con jóvenes en Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, y vincula la ciencia con la sociedad, ingresa a la Academia Americana de Ciencias y Artes ( @americanacad ). #OrgulloUNAM ¡ #GOYA ! >

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Amazing work describing how microbial genes are distribute at a global scale in @Nature ! @alvarordr @cpcantalapiedra @jhcepas

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Comparative Genomics and Metagenomics Lab

3 years

glad to share our latest lab paper on the ecological distribution & evolutionary value of 300M genes from 13,000 samples and 14 habitats. w/ @alvarordr @cpcantalapiedra @Ginerorama @BorkLab @luispedrocoelho & more @CBGP_Madrid @INIA_es @CSIC @La_UPM

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

#Samplingsuccess on Day 3 on board of the Pelican @LUMCONscience @jcamthrash ’s a GoPro captured epic footage, the #bakerlab collected more cores w/ amazing help from @ShelbyJBarnes1 The highlight of the day? cattle egret #micr0respir #sciencing @em_aguilarpine @katy_appler

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Excited to be back at @EEAD_CSIC 🎉 where I did half of my PhD, I learned bioinformatics, meet amazing friends, colleagues and mentors @BrunoContrerasM @NajlaKsouri @ernestoigartua @alvarordr Now I'll be presenting my work at @UTMSI w/ @archaeal Details👇

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2 years

No te pierdas el viernes 8 de julio a las 12:00h la charla "Desentrañando los misterios microbianos en el fondo submarino" de @val_deanda Acércate al campus @EEAD_CSIC @IPE_CSIC @CITAAragon o conéctate para participar, todos los detalles en

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

I couldn’t ask for more! I hugged my mom, my dad, my grandma and my cat on my birthday. We are healthy, happy and together (at least for one day) I even got a #NASA shirt as birthday present! I’m very grateful for this lovely #birthday day ❤️🌺🎉

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Let's normalize talking about #mentalhealth in academia📢 As 🇲🇽female scientist 1st gen, I've faced & witnessed the mental-health crisis. High rates of anxiety and depression plague researchers worldwide. What's biggest struggle in Academia? let's create a safe &supp community!

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

I’m so grateful that I can get to spend this day hugging my mom and my grandma. They got their second vaccine dose and soon I will be able to get it. Thank you science for letting me hug my moms ❤️ #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #HappyMothersDay #MothersDay2021

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Valerie De Anda

1 year

Day 1. The amazing @katy_appler and @em_aguilarpine drove 10 hr, hit some traffic but made it safely to New Orleans. Met up w/ @jcamthrash lab and explored the #FrenchQuarter & despite sleeping 9 h in the past 48 h Emily finished finals season and is now a @UTAustin senior!

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Valerie De Anda

2 months

Making it official on X makes it feel more real .. More details soon! #NewPI #WomenInSTEM #AcademicTwitter #DiversityAndInclusion #LatinxInSTEM #BreakingBarriers #DiversityInSTEM

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Valerie De Anda

4 years

@GCACTAATTGAGAAC @GCACTAATTGAGAAC I wish more reviewers share this philosophy!! unfortunately that’s not the case. As a ESL PhD student it took me 2 years to publish my first paper cause reviewers were more concerned about my grammar rather than my scientific findings🙄

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

Yesterday we had a Girls trip from the Baker @archaeal and Lazar lab’s to Montreux We visited the studio where Freddy Mercury recorded his last song, visited the Caux Palace w/ breathtaking views of Lake Geneva & had picnic by the lake ❤️ #WomanInSTEM #ISME18

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Valerie De Anda

2 years

In honor of International @WomenScienceDay , today I will be highlighting some quotes from my beautiful, strong, smart and dedicated early-career scientist friends and colleagues from around the world #NoMoreMatildas #WomenSTEM #WomenInScience #INTERNATIONALDAYOFWOMENINSCIENCE

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Valerie De Anda

3 years

Great talk by @jhcepas Functional and ecological patterns of novel organisms and gene functions. I'm so looking forward to use all your Lab's computational resources for comparative metagenomics (some written by my very dear friends) So proud of you @cpcantalapiedra @alvarordr

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