Brendan Paul Burns

This study characterizes bacterial endosymbionts in Australian ticks using shotgun metagenomics, identifying their nutritional roles and genomic features.

The paper identifies viruses and proviruses associated with Asgard archaea and reveals virus-mediated interactions with bacteria, expanding understanding of microbial symbiosis in eukaryogenesis.

The paper describes a novel Asgard archaeon and its syntrophic interaction with a sulfate-reducing bacterium, suggesting insights into early eukaryotic symbiosis.

The paper identifies tubulins in Asgard archaea and shows they form mini-microtubules with eukaryotic-like properties, suggesting an archaeal origin for microtubules.

This paper identifies an Asgard archaeon with an endomembrane system that changes with cell state, challenging previous views on eukaryogenesis.