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Its a wrap. What a unique opportunity we had here at #ALPOLE #Sion with the @embl.org AML lab! We sampled... a lot. We worked... hard. And we had a lot, a lot, but really alot of fun. >30 ECR trained >500 distinct samples across 2 weeks + too many protists awwwed at. An amazing community growing.

Many eukaryotic life cycles involve a multinucleate <-> uninucleate switch. Here we build on beautiful prior work from Omaya & also @fritzlaylin.bsky.social to strengthen the idea that the cellular machinery (cellularisation = modified cytokinesis) and organisational principles are deeply conserved

On ep 1, @oliverio.bsky.social and @hbrappap.bsky.social discuss the discovery of the ‘fire amoeba’ that can reproduce at the highest temperature ever recorded for a eukaryote! This organism is hot right now 🔥 literally and figuratively #protistsonsky Clip below + full ep here: tinyurl.com/ms3hddpb

Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

🪸 New lab preprint and a first lead-author paper for @joanakrause.bsky.social: a global meta-analysis of the plastid-bearing microeukaryotes of #corals, built from sequences most 16S studies throw away. With @bradweilerdives.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social, at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social.

I’m very excited to share the first big project from my PhD (my first proper-first, yay!) where we use cryoET and a fun new flavour of CLEM to study the re-organisation of photosynthetic machinery of cyanobacteria growing beyond the red limit of light. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Looking to do a PhD in evolutionary cell biology, chromosomes & centromeres? 🧬🔬 The winter call for the UNIGE PhD recruitment is open, and my lab is among those recruiting through the Molecular Biosciences program! 🗓️ Apply by Nov 1st: lifesciencesphd.unige.ch

We are updating our Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM) website with : - Protocols tips to help you get started - Examples of applications across different biological systems. - work in progress - an antibody database 👉 mocel.unige.ch/research-gro...

Happy to share our latest work showing that fungal cell fusion not only requires local cell wall digestion but also inhibition of cell wall repair! PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell-wall repair doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Led by @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social

I'm not going to lie, this review puts the various challenges driving multicellularity very elegantly. For anyone excited about this field, this review is a must read. And damn this video is very very nice ! Congrats Will, Kai and Ozan.

Cool science alert!! A dream come true at #ALPOLE Sion with @embl.org's Advanced Mobile Lab: hiking, sampling and learning from amazing scientists. And bringing back a tooooon of microscopic pets 🔬🧪 Thanks everyone and thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social 🥹#ProtistsOnSky

People!!! This workshop will be ACE - please share, please apply!

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

I am still a bit speechless but my main PhD project is finally out in Science Advances. It was a long process, but I am so happy with the final results! Massive thanks to everyone involved, especially my co-authors and everyone involved in sampling! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

Nothing better than pizza to close...

Last sampling site for us !... We went really wild in sampling type today...

Congrats @radler92.bsky.social ! Looking forward to welcoming you soon for #ExM ;)

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

Application review for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology will start October 15th! Please apply before then if you are keen on coming. www.grc.org/microbial-po...

Going strong today with the sampling team ! Such a Bliss to be outdoors honnestly.

Guess who is the lucky lab hosting @mathilda95.bsky.social now ? Congrats on such an amazing work !

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Talk about a commute to work... First week is about to wrap. Getting ready for week 2!

How "hot" is "hot" for a cell ? Amazing work by @hbrappap.bsky.social & @oliverio.bsky.social & all authors. Makes you think a tad about how a cell can polymerize its cytoskeleton at these temperatures !

I'm super proud of this review written (mostly) by Zoé Ducarne and @myanhtruong.bsky.social about the extraordinary genomic features of the placenta. Such a crazy organ! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

Our description of fire amoeba, 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, is now online at Cell! Thanks @oliverio.bsky.social and amazing team for questioning the limits of eukaryotes! 🔥 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Yamini Ravichandran In this interview, Yamini discusses her work focusing on understanding tissue-scale processes, regeneration and morphogenesis. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 18th 📍Institut Jacques Monod Tomorrow, Prof. Omaya Dudin ( @dudinlab.bsky.social ) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme "Exploring multicellular developmental programs at the root of animals and beyond ➡️ buff.ly/3RGKbbU

Lovely to see several pieces of our ctenophore work featured in this beautiful new story from @quantamagazine.org 🪼 Great piece by @mstarling.bsky.social, also featuring work by @stevehaddock.bsky.social, @arnausebe.bsky.social & @hejnol.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...

The extraordinary diversity, biology and complexity of #protists pose significant challenges to the #genomics community. That’s why a new collaboration will look to address some of the major technical barriers for sequencing protists from bulk cultures and the environment.

Amazing work! Check it out!

Really happy and honoured! Thank you so much!