PhD student with Mara Lawniczak and Mark Blaxter | Tree of Life | Wellcome Sanger Institute | University of Cambridge | Palestinian & Italian
i'm SO lucky to be friends with @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social!!!! ❤️ What a beautiful card and celebration! Thank you to my supervisors and all my friends at the Tree of Life for an amazing four years!
Petra Korlevićcongrats to the DOCTOR @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social for his amazing viva yesterday! (and yes, the cursed mr mime was for his card lol)
Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ
Forty new genomes shed light on sexual reproduction and the origin of tetraploidy in MicrosporidiaMicrosporidia are single-celled, intracellular parasites of growing public health, agricultural, and economic importance. This study presents 40 new microsporidian genomes derived collaterally from Da...plos.ioPLOS Biology#Microsporidia are #parasites of growing importance. @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social @mblaxter.bsky.social @marakat.bsky.social &co present 40 new genomes from #DarwinTreeofLife sequencing of their arthropod hosts, revealing insights into #tetraploidy & #reproduction @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48HsAQJ
it's really an honour to be interviewed by the wonderful @carmcdhume.bsky.social -- a huge thank you! ❤️🫂
Carmen Denman HumeMeet @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social. Amjad is a great science communicator. I've listened to him present his research. I've interviewed him twice. I've read his papers. Head to the blog, so you too can get swept up by his enthusiasm and #microsporidian studies ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/29/s...
it was so so lovely to do this together! 🇭🇷❤️🇵🇸
Petra Korlevićhad such a fantastic International Community Day last week, and so many wonderful people stopped by our little Palestinian/Croatian shared table with @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social 🇵🇸🇭🇷 and hey, after all I'm Istrian, so my national animal is the GOAT 🐐
New preprint! We generate 40 new high-quality microsporidian genomes from infected arthropod hosts that were sequenced to create reference genomes by the Darwin Tree of Life project. 8 of our genomes are chromosome-level, and we’re able to generate Hi-C data for 7! 🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Forty New Genomes Shed Light on Sexual Reproduction and the Origin of Tetraploidy in MicrosporidiaMicrosporidia are single-celled, obligately intracellular parasites with growing public health, agricultural, and economic importance. Despite this, Microsporidia remain relatively enigmatic, with man...www.biorxiv.org