Very pleased to finally share the main story from my PhD, now published in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🎉 Using a sea anemone we discovered and characterised epithelial cell extrusion as the mechanism underlying starvation-induced cell loss. 🔗 Open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications

Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

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Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

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

Recent work from the lab. Even after hundreds of generations of intense directional selection at relatively small Ne, substantial genetic variation persists, and can be rapidly redeployed when the direction of selection reverses. Results are suggestive of balancing selection. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Beyond Fixation: Persistent Genetic Variation Under Intense Selection

Abstract. Understanding how and why genetic variation is maintained under sustained selection remains a central question in evolutionary genetics. Experime

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⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

Looking forward to presenting at #ICRS2026 tomorrow. I'll be speaking about our work on the functional role of sphingosine kinase in cnidarian–algal symbiosis during the cell and molecular session at 10:30 AM in Room 516.

Coral Microbes, Probiotics & Disease, Oh My! @uncwilmington.bsky.social's The Ushijima Lab is heading to #ICRS2026 in Auckland, NZ! Join their presentations on coral pathogens & probiotics! Or stop by and chat with them about coral microbes!

Postdoc Positions: Coral Cell and Molecular Biology Reach out directly to mg2@stowers.org or follow the link below to read more and apply through the institute portal! Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557 www.stowers.org/careers/post...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557

If you have a collection of outstanding people who ask really interesting questions, like each other and push the envelope, important discoveries will…

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My flight to Auckland got delayed by 24 hours, but I'll make it just in time for my talk at ICRS - Monday at 10:45AM in room 516! This is my first ICRS, very excited! #ICRS2026

🚨 Preprint update! Our approach combining sclerochronology, coraDNA and geochemistry was able to reconstruct historical symbiont shuffling and microbial shifts linked to local anthropogenic disturbances from a coral skeletal core. Read more here: doi.org/10.1101/2024... @momedinamunoz.bsky.social

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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Corals and the algae that they host are touted as one of the greatest partnerships in nature. But this symbiosis probably didn't start out harmoniously. In this edition of #ScienceAdviser: the story of a beautiful friendship that began as a break-in www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧪

A terrific discovery by my GGED colleague Phil Cleves and his team. It isn’t easy to do genetics on these organisms but they are doing it! @pcleves.bsky.social

Phillip Cleves@pcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

Our work on the symbiont-containing organelle that supports coral reefs is published today. Also, new genetic tools to study symbiosis in both corals and Aiptasia. Great work by Shumpei Maruyama, Cat Henderson, and the rest of the fantastic team. #SymbioSky www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Excited to share that my postdoc work is now out @cp-cell.bsky.social! A collaborative work with co-lead author Catherine Henderson and others in the lab of @pcleves.bsky.social A deep look into how algae form symbiosis with corals and anemones. 🧵 (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Co-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefs

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

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In a new state-of-the-art laboratory, MCB's Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social and his team are discovering how the symbiotic relationship between algae and corals evolved. news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/01/s...

Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs - Berkeley News

UC Berkeley biologists uncovered clues to how the symbiosis between algae and corals evolved using a new state-of-the-art lab devoted to year-round genetic experiments on spawning coral.

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Our work on the symbiont-containing organelle that supports coral reefs is published today. Also, new genetic tools to study symbiosis in both corals and Aiptasia. Great work by Shumpei Maruyama, Cat Henderson, and the rest of the fantastic team. #SymbioSky www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Co-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefs

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

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I just wanted to give a shoutout to my boy Dr. Griffin Kowalewski from the Cleves Lab for successfully defending his PhD today. CONGRATS!!! Looking forward to the community reading his excellent work. @griff1nk.bsky.social

First postdoc paper and first Nematostella project! By using the dynamic expression pattern of minicollagens, we describe the transcriptional profile during biogenesis for two major stinging cell types: nematocytes and spirocytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #StunningStella

Minicollagen expression dynamics reveal a transcriptional program for cnidogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

Cnidae are explosive harpoon-like organelles localized within stinging cells, or cnidocytes, of the phylum Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, and corals). These unique Golgi-derived vesicula...

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Minicollagen expression dynamics reveal a transcriptional program for cnidogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.23.733813v1

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

Single cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid

Photosynthetic organelles (plastids), which originated via primary endosymbiosis between an Archaeplastida ancestor and cyanobacteria, have shaped the Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere and spread across ...

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So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

We're hiring a genetics lab manager position at NOAA in Juneau, Alaska! The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day laboratory operations and contribute to the development of new molecular methods. Salary is $75-145k/yr. Email wes.larson@noaa.gov with questions www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD...

Biologist (Omics)

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Vacancies may be available in each listed location. Additional duty lo...

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📣 WE ARE HIRING! 📣 Join @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social with a new Laboratory Technician position in #delCampoLab!🤿🦠 🧬In the #CORALPROS project investigates the protists (unicellular eukaryotes) living within corals. #JoinOurTeam 👉https://shorturl.at/vGg1E

🌊 postdoc opening

Mark Moore@cmarkmoore.bsky.social · last mo.

We are recruiting two postdocs: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Associate - Coral Reef Futures Lab (University of Miami) Application deadline 30th June 2026 Learn more here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1... #coralreefs #coralfutures #universityofmiami #postdoctoralassociate #coralreeffutureslab #careers #coralreefscience #jobs

Deeply upsetting

Pooja A. Anilkumar@poojaavinipully.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Velvet worm under SEM! #onychophora #peripatidae #peripatus

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.