A fully updated preprint is now live on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social :) “Look and see” was a rather important line of thinking regarding freshwater sponge-microbe interactions, centering on the importance of spatial dynamics when evaluating animal microbiomes 🧽🦠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not everyday a friend is able to define a new organelle!!! If you like membrane compartimentalization and are interested in how cells responde to stress in membrane tension, check this out!👇👇 Congrats to Elda and co!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Discovery of an adhesion GPCR regulating mating in choanoflagellates, by Alain Garcia de las Bayonas & Nicole King. Absolutely stunning work - choano cell biology is going next level www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The paper from my postdoc days @mblscience.bsky.social and @zakswartz.bsky.social Lab is available in @natcomms.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... With Beverly Naigles, @carsten-wolff.bsky.social and @danivoronov.bsky.social

Very excited to see our preprint on the monoaminergic signaling system in sponges (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...) featured by @qedscience.bsky.social. This highlights the importance of studying early-branching animals to piece together how the first animal cell types communicated with each other.

An ancient monoaminergic signaling system coordinates contractility in a nerveless sponge

Chemical neurotransmission was a key animal innovation, enabling multicellular coordination of physiology and locomotion. Sponges are early-diverging animals that lack neurons and muscles, yet still c...

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🎉 Meet The 1%. Out of 57,455 bioRxiv life science preprints, QED Science selected 574 exceptional manuscripts through blind evaluation. The 1%: the-one-percent.qedscience.com Good science deserves to be seen. @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social

How do #sponges coordinate their bodies despite lacking neurons and true muscles? We show that sponges use monoamines to control water flow in their canals — reminiscent of how adrenaline regulates blood vessels. My PhD story, now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Evolution