Flora Vincent

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

Thrilled to kickstart the @embo.org practical course on metabolite & microbial communities, in @embl.org & Bangalore. After 2 years working on Kefir, we now explore marine microbial interactions 🤩 with support from the @roscoff-collection.bsky.social; 1rst lecture by Marine Vallet #EMBOMicroCom

@floravincent.bsky.social on symbiosis in marine unicellular eukaryotes - online presentation at #MibiNet first on diatom cell structure, see their @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

✨ At this week DB unit seminar @embl.org, Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group @floravincent.bsky.social presented his work on phytoplankton symbiosis #diatoms #symbyosis #marinebiology #DevBio

#ProtistsOnSky

Exactly 10 yrs after defending my PhD with @taraoceans-science.bsky.social here we are with the lab celebrating 10 yrs of Tara enabled science at home in @embl.org surrounded by some of my scientific heroes and legends in the field. Scientific community is everything🌊 #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries

What a way to start #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries! ⛵️🌊 We’re live from EMBL Heidelberg, where scientific organiser Chris Bowler has opened the first edition of the meeting, followed by a keynote lecture from Éric Karsenti. We’re excited for what’s ahead this week!

Happy to welcome Ines Fournon as a member in the lab to continue exploring wild and wonderful phytoplankton interactions together with @dudinlab.bsky.social @inesfournon.bsky.social 🥳

Hard to think the EMBO/EMBL symposium on the cellular mechanics of #symbiosis is already over @embl.org. Some personal scientific heroes in there, and a very unique collegial and open minded vibe (and great dancers💃🏻 ) #EESSymbiosis Wonderful way to reconnect with science after 🐣! #womeninscience

As emerging models gain traction during this uncertain funding landscape, the need for sustainable and scalable approaches is pressing. Our effort to implement accessible genetics in choanoflagellates and share our strategy is now out. We hope the community finds this helpful and invite feedback.

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky

The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protists #microbiome

People working with #protists and #fungi might be interested to hear that we in this study sequenced 13.4 mio. eukaryotic rRNA operons from 450 representative samples. #ProtistsOnSky #Metabarcoding

seems that protists were way ahead of us with the invention of the circular economy 😊 great to hear of 'holobionts' again 👍 #SymnioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

One more week to apply to this PhD position on working out an endosymbiosis relationship in a protist. Please share widely to prospective PhD student #protistsonsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #protistsonsky

The cold water tintinnid ciliate Parafavella elegans & some diatoms from the Chukchi Sea last summer- almost the end of the Arctic samples....

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

A couple of days left to submit your abstract for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Symbiosis ! Great line up of speakers :) #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

This work shines because of @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social passion for these cells. She built it all—the cultures, transcriptomes, analyses, modeling and collaborations—from scratch. I can’t begin to express how brilliant and hard-working a scientist she is (and she's 👀 for postdocs!). So proud of her 🥲

How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926

Wow! Remarkably complete story on the logic of phenotypic plasticity in a predatory protist - congrats @cellraiser.bsky.social et al!

It is a collaboration between my lab (Uppsala U) and the labs of @dudinlab.bsky.social (Geneva U) and @filiphusnik.bsky.social (OIST). More info and how to apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... (The use of AI for writing the motivation letter is discouraged and will be regarded unfavourably) 2/2

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

In French - Virginie on Swiss radio! 🎙️ She talks about our latest collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social #UExM #ProtistsOnSky

Had a fun two weeks in Heidelberg visiting in the @floravincent.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs! Expanding diatoms and their evil little parasites was peak Halloween vibes 🎃 @embl.org #ExM #diatoms

Soraya Zwahlen, a PhD student in the Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social group @embl.org, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week. She discussed a cell-ecosystem approach to studying marine microbial interactions under pollutant stress. #MarineMicrobiology #MicrobialInteractions

They are architects of the sea, engineers of the air—capturing carbon, atom by atom. While you breathe, they build. While you sleep, they safeguard our climate. #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky Illustrations by Rosie Sheward

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

#ProtistsOnSky the elephant in the (protist)room...

One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !

Wowww!!! Amazing news @messorensen.bsky.social 🤩 Huge congrats & so excited for your lab at @cemess.bsky.social! #protistsonsky www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! bit.ly/47mmiFF

Partnership between #algae & #bacteria reveals secrets of evolution phys.org/news/2025-08... Stepwise genome #evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing symbioses www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social, @mehrshmali.bsky.social, et al.

#protistsonsky Direct link to the Chaetoceros Quick Guide if you want to learn more :) @sorayazwahlen.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...

Building the next generation of kick-ass women in marine science, one expedition at a time. #mesocosm @embl.org

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding #protists #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last week, we started to collect samples from high-altitude Alpine lakes for the ERC-funded #CAPSOLUTION project! Throughout July and August, we will study the diversity of #viruses, #bacteria, and #protists in these extreme environments. #HorizonEU @erc.europa.eu @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Our home base for the first week was Lake Gossenköllesee at 2416 m elevation. The research station (Univ. of Innsbruck) sheltered us during an unexpected snowstorm in July. See pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33436089 for viruses from this lake! #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu