MibiNet

@mibinet.bsky.social

MibiNet aims to understand microbial networking in its full complexity to explain how organelles evolve and how the microbiome functions. https://www.sfb1535.hhu.de/

👋 Meet new #HFScout and quantitative cell biologist Amy Gladfelter, who uses microscopy, biophysical & genetic approaches to study syncytial cells (multinucleated cells) and how these large cells spatially organize the cytoplasm and sense their shape.

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Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

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