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.

Will Ratcliff@wcratcliff.bsky.social · 6d ago

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

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!

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 3w ago

Applications are now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution, organised by Snezhana Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social & Cunqi Ye. Find out more and apply www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

📣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

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.

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/...

Stability in flexibility: Shifting alliances stabilize the symbioses of marine animals over 150 million years

Many animals benefit from microbial symbionts that aid digestion, supply essential nutrients, or provide defense. When this dependence becomes obligate, as in gutless marine oligochaetes that have los...

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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.

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

PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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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 ;)

Philipp Radler@radler92.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first paper of my PostDoc in Christa Schlepers group (@archaea-vienna.bsky.social) on the dynamics of Asgard archaea is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a great team effort and I am looking forward to uncover the complex behavior of these cells further!

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 !

Mathilda Lennartz@mathilda95.bsky.social · 2w ago

UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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!

Niko Leisch@nikobiota.bsky.social · 3w ago

We hiked, we microscoped, we sorted—and we’re excited for more! 🏔️🔬 Week 1 of exploring alpine microbial life with @sciencesunige.bsky.social , EPFL ALPOLE and EMBL's Mobile Labs, is about to wrap up. First time fieldwork for some of us, sampling & on-site analysis for all.

#Classic #Science #Rant Today our #ProjectGrant for the @snsf.ch was rejected. Not going to lie, I’m disappointed. Thx to the reviewers, I think there are things we can improve for the next round. But I struggle to reconcile “high-risk” research with the amount of preliminary data being asked for.

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 !

Gautam Dey@gautamdey.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proud to contribute the World’s Hottest Mitotic Spindle™️ to this incredible study @fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky

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/...

The curious case of the placental genome

Summary: The placenta is the only mammalian organ that harbors a cancer-like genome while remaining functional and healthy. This Review highlights its high mutational load, structural variants, aneupl...

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#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...

A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes

The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies for survival in extreme heat.

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Busy week for #ProtistsOnSky After some planning with Tom Battin & @nikobiota.bsky.social The #Alpine #Microbial Workshop is finally here in #Sion! We're grateful to all funders @sciencesunige.bsky.social #EPFL @embl.org & many supportive foundations & all our collaborators who made this possible.

Must admit, ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of seeing microscopy images of #protists in @lemonde.fr Today, protists are everywhere, and several images were taken by the team. And seeing #ichthyosporeans there too?! 🥹 One step closer to showcasing the beauty of the invisible microbial world. 🔬✨

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 3w ago

Plongée dans le monde fascinant de micro-organismes unicellulaires doués d’intelligence

Commuting in the opposite direction this morning. An awesome 2-week adventure with the whole lab, friends & colleagues coming from all over is just about to start in the #swiss #alps Stay tuned !

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