Liz Cooney

Fully funded #PhD Studentship available in collaboration with the PI Christos Velanis (OU, UK). The Polycomb Gatekeeper: PRC2-Mediated Genome Defence and Allele-Specific Expression in the #diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus. @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

PhD position in arctic protists at the Natural History Museum in Oslo #arctic #marine #protists #diversity #ecology #metabarcoding

Applications for Microbial Diversity are now open! A once-in-a-lifetime experience is an application away! www.mbl.edu/education/ad... @mblscience.bsky.social #MicrobialDiversity

We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🔬Postdoc position available! Interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying host-endosymbiont interactions? Join our group and help us explore these fascinating biological partnerships! Deadline: 29. Oct Details & application: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please spread the word!

Now that we have moved coasts, I am thrilled to share that the ChromEvo (Raman) lab is officially open at UMass Boston 🎉 We ask how CHROMatin EVOlution leads to functional innovation and we are hiring at multiple levels. Read on and share with folks who maybe interested chromevoramanlab.github.io

Heads-up! I’ll be starting my research group at MedUni Vienna in January 2027, with postdoc and PhD positions available soon. Looking for people interested in bacteria–phage interactions, bacterial defense systems, and phage anti-defense strategies. Please send your CV: anna.lopatina@univie.ac.at

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 recruiting! Excited by ribosomes, translation, cryoEM and maybe malaria parasites? Then we have a fully funded, 3-year PhD position at the Institut Pasteur in Paris waiting for you. All info here: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/phd-p... ⏰ Deadline: November 6, 2026

Are you interested in learning how genomes of weird fungi and protists evolve and are you looking for an exciting PhD opportunity? Jolien van Hooff and I are looking for an enthusiasic PhD candidate at Wageningen University: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #TEworldwide #Fungi #Protists #Genome

Postdoc opportunity! Join PERKFresh project and explore Perkinsea diversity, ecology & host–parasite interactions in freshwaters 📍 University of Warsaw ⏰ Deadline: 6 Nov 2026 🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/466845 #protistonsky #postdoc

Spread the word! I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to grow the Paulinella project. Some details can be found here: www.vanettenlab.org/join

Only one week left to apply ! Check below for more details but the course will be great. Please spread the word 🙏

Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora www.cell.com/current-biol...

Discovery of an Undocumented Symbiosis Between Arcellinida and a Flagellate Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics - Ani et al. (2026) Free link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QBTIVR... #ProtistsOnSky

The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia! The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-) Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky protistologists.org/call-for-app...

Marine heatwaves reorganize phytoplankton bloom phenology in the Gulf of Alaska aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

What's that? You wish we had more data on those bizarre dinoflagellates WITH EYES? Have no fear! With @protistwtmostest.bsky.social, Gordon Lax, and @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, who also have eyes.

Symbiotic capacity in a changing ocean: emerging questions around phytoplankton interactions- Zwahlen & Vincent 2026 - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

A novel jakobid genus from the soil of an indoor plant #microbiology #protists #eukaryotes #ProtistsOnSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Labyrinthula merlionensis sp. nov.: A Novel Labyrinthulid Infecting Marine Diatoms - Sim - 2026 - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ProtistsOnSky

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

Integration and regulation of stolen organelles in a marine protist academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF

We are recruiting a postdoc to explore how corals evolved coloniality, novel cell types, and photosymbiosis using single-cell and genomic approaches. Based at Academia Sinica, Taipei. More: sgel.biodiv.tw

I am starting my lab at the University of Geneva next January! Incredibly excited to soon be joining the MOCEL department as an Asst. Professor. The lab will use evolutionary cell biology to study chromosomes, centromeres & speciation 🧬🔬🌱 Intrigued, want to join or collaborate? 🔗 helsenlab.org

Apparently the "boring billion" was actually exciting! We provide molecular evidence of complex Mesoproterozoic eukaryotic communities. So happy to see this out 🥳 Thanks to @phoebefossil.bsky.social , Hélène Morlon & @fburki.bsky.social for a lovely collab! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Plastid endosymbiosis without gene transfer - dinoflagellates can do it #ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Our new work @natecoevo.nature.com shows Karenia cristata produces brevetoxins and is the dominant player in the prolonged bloom & mass mortality event in Southern Australia. Glad to be part of this work with Shauna Murray & the whole team! rdcu.be/fse9r The Conversation: tinyurl.com/3rnyxrnj

New preprint: We studied the population dynamics of Arctic #phytoplankton and #mycoplankton and found evidence for chytrid-mediated diatom bloom termination. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Congrats @paulinethome.bsky.social #protists #protistsonsky #algae #diatoms #chytrids

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We're seeking technicians and postdocs interested in working on decrypting plant-fungal communication as part of a "Fungalphabet" MURI team! (see RFP language below) Official job ads to follow, but please get in touch with me if this sounds like you or someone you know!

Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists! Join us 3–4 Sept 2026 at the Natural History Museum, London - exploring 'LOPIT' methods for mapping proteins to organelles, complexes & symbionts. Register by 10 Aug | Abstracts and Early Bird due 31 July 🔗 protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeting-2026 #protist

Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out! We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202... @zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social #protistsonsky

New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Bacteria

Sweet and fatty symbionts: Photosynthetic productivity and carbon storage boosted in microalgae within a host | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protistsonsky

Meet Holdonia, a new member of the chrompodellid clade. Found clinging to a polychaete, this little guy reveals that similar patterns in plastid reduction have occurred independently across chrompodellid and related lineages. @rhizalyssa.bsky.social @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2t25xb6z

The CNRS has opened a Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) call in Parasitology, and the Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité (MFP, Bordeaux) laboratory is among the potential host institutions. More information: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... #Parasitology #Protozoology #ResearchJobs #CNRS

It's happening tomorrow! Zoom link via: tinyurl.com/43uckr2w We look forward to seeing you there

My last pic of the organizers closing out the inaugural session of the #MicroSEA course, dedicated to hands on single cell methods with micro-eukaryotes. It was an honor and a pleasure to share. Bravo @johandecelle.bsky.social @mjamy.bsky.social @protistwtmostest.bsky.social and other organizers!

Me and my friend Cymbomonas, the mixotrophic green alga with 4 flagella. #MicroSEA course clay modeling activity 2026. #protistsonsky

Fantastic week of seaside "protisting" at the Microsea summer school in Roscoff. Very keen and inspiring participants. Thanks to the organizers for an amazing first edition. Only downside is that I lost (hopefully only temporarily) my computer to a coffee spill. #protistsonsky

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on diatom phylogenomics. Reach out by email with questions. Please share and repost! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fa...

The first paper from #theLifeOfRetaria is out! doi.org/10.1002/bies... This was a very fun and enriching process, as it has been the last 2 years of our Seminar Series 🤩 #protistsonsky

it has been a real pleasure to co-run the Life of Retaria with such a lovely group of organizers 💕Happy two years of the Life of Retaria Seminar Series!!!! 🎉 it feels right that our paper should come out around the anniversary!