Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey!

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#protistsonsky

Intrigued how #biomolecularcondensates evolve? Want to work with a condensate system that has a global impact? We’re recruiting a 4-year PDRA to explore the evolution of CO2-fixing pyrenoids: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTE394/r... Please repost. #pyrenoids #photosynthesis

Nice @jcellsci.bsky.social "at a glance" review about the convergently evolved organizing principles of pyrenoids, chloroplast compartments that enable diverse algae to supercharge #CO2 fixation. BONUS: It comes with a poster for your wall 🖼️. Great work @phaips.vd.st & @manondemulder.bsky.social 🌊🌾🧪

If you’ve always been curious about how algae fix carbon, @phaips.vd.st, @cellarchlab.com and I have put together the quickest route into pyrenoids. And if you don’t feel like reading at all, we have an accompanying poster

doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Drawing on existing knowledge and success stories from the community, researchers are looking to tackle major technical barriers in protist sequencing, including extraction, cell lysis, and DNA amplification methods. 🦠🧬

#protists #sequencing

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...

Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎
sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh...

(Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)

Very proud of the team, led by @baukjeje.bsky.social & @fmikus.bsky.social

To all of you doing #Expansion #Microscopy #UExM
Try Concanavalin A.

Its cheap, easy to use & labels the #nuclear #Envelope

@moorefound.bsky.social @embl.org @sciencesunige.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch

Do you want to label the nuclear envelope? Do you work on a non-model species? Try Concanavalin A!
We tested ConA on various species across the eukaryotic tree and find it is a very useful ExM-compatible marker for the NE and ER.
Read all about it in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am excited to share that I will start my group @embl.org in Grenoble in February 2027, where we will investigate host-pathogen interactions using in situ cryo electron microscopy🦠❄️🔬! I am recruiting PhD students through the current open call of the EMBL PhD Program: www.embl.org/about/info/e...

MemBrain v2 is on @natmethods.nature.com now? I never had a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with 164 citations before😅 ...Which is also to say: Thank you to the amazing #TeamTomo community, many of whom not only beta tested, but also contributed diverse training data. This one belongs to all of us! 🤗🔬🧪

Artificial algal blooms could remove atmospheric carbon — but can they be used responsibly? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)!
Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs
🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa