Anna Ferraioli
@annaferraioli.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Burkhardt Lab @MSarsCentre @Uib
Former PhD student @Clytia_Vlfr / @EvoCELL_ITN
Former PhD student @Clytia_Vlfr / @EvoCELL_ITN
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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!
Chromatin profiling identifies putative dual roles for H3K27me3 in regulating cell type-specific genes and transposable elements in choanoflagellates
Nature Communications - Here, the authors investigate chromatin-based gene regulation in the closest relative of animal, choanoflagellates. They uncover a putative dual role for the histone...
rdcu.be
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
rdcu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
August 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social
New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social
New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Excited to share our new work on the 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ!
We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Excited to share our new work on the 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ!
We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩.
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
June 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩.
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
So glad to see this work on single cell of squid visual system finally published in @natecoevo.nature.com , a long adventure from Okinawa to London !
Congratulations to the amazing Yongkai Tan, Elise Parey, Fabienne Künzli-Ziadi, Yuko Hasegawa, Laura Piovani, Lin Zhang, Chilatoshi Sugimoto, Nick Luscombe, Ferdinand Marlétaz and Dan Rokhsar www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A single-cell atlas of the bobtail squid visual and nervous system highlights molecular principles of convergent evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An analysis of single-cell transcriptomes from the retina and optic lobe of the bobtail squid characterizes the cellular basis of the complex visual system of this cephalopod and provides insights int...
www.nature.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So glad to see this work on single cell of squid visual system finally published in @natecoevo.nature.com , a long adventure from Okinawa to London !
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile.
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile.
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...
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"Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement" Kudos to Julia Ramon-Mateu and Anna Ferraioli @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social, and thanks to our collaborators for their coral larva expertise www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement
Larvae of jellyfish and corals have specialized sensory cells with shared features potentially linked to settlement regulation.
www.science.org
May 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement" Kudos to Julia Ramon-Mateu and Anna Ferraioli @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social, and thanks to our collaborators for their coral larva expertise www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
New entry into the sponge/ctenophore debate.... Have the chromosome fusions separating ctenophores from all other animals been given too much weight? Beautifully clearly written paper covering complex arguments from @rcply.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sponges, ctenophores and the statistical significance of syntenies
Shared fusions between ancestral chromosomal linkage groups have previously been used to support phylogenetic groupings, notably sponges with cnidarians and bilaterians to the exclusion of ctenophores...
www.biorxiv.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New entry into the sponge/ctenophore debate.... Have the chromosome fusions separating ctenophores from all other animals been given too much weight? Beautifully clearly written paper covering complex arguments from @rcply.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
It was an honor to take part in the celebration of 200 years of knowledge at @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social, together with colleagues from across @unibergen.bsky.social departments 🎉🎂 The Burkhardt group showcased comb jellies in the Museum's majestic whale hall ✨ @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It was an honor to take part in the celebration of 200 years of knowledge at @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social, together with colleagues from across @unibergen.bsky.social departments 🎉🎂 The Burkhardt group showcased comb jellies in the Museum's majestic whale hall ✨ @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
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It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
imMERsion-Sciences is online !
A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel !
By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr
With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque
immersion-sciences.org
A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel !
By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr
With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque
immersion-sciences.org
April 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
imMERsion-Sciences is online !
A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel !
By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr
With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque
immersion-sciences.org
A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel !
By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr
With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque
immersion-sciences.org
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Anna Ferraioli @annaferraioli.bsky.social, postdoc in the group of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social, presented her work characterizing the ctenophore aboral organ at #EMBLAIOneHealth @events.embl.org 🤩👏
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Anna Ferraioli @annaferraioli.bsky.social, postdoc in the group of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social, presented her work characterizing the ctenophore aboral organ at #EMBLAIOneHealth @events.embl.org 🤩👏
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We are excited to announce that registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is now open! 🤩 Join us on June 6th at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks 🧪 #MSS2025
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
January 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We are excited to announce that registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is now open! 🤩 Join us on June 6th at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks 🧪 #MSS2025
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
🍾Our small #UExM adventure is only starting! #ProtistsOnSky
We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE
@embl.org
LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi...
1/4
We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE
@embl.org
LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi...
1/4
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
🍾Our small #UExM adventure is only starting! #ProtistsOnSky
We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE
@embl.org
LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi...
1/4
We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE
@embl.org
LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi...
1/4
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Thrilled to share this new work resulting from a great collaboration of my lab with the labs of Ignacio Maeso and Veronica Hinman, started with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta many years ago. Take a look!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regulatory organization for a handful of lineages, particularly flies and vertebrates. These two groups of...
www.biorxiv.org
December 1, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Thrilled to share this new work resulting from a great collaboration of my lab with the labs of Ignacio Maeso and Veronica Hinman, started with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta many years ago. Take a look!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Anna Ferraioli
Our ctenophores say hi to Bluesky 👋🏼
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Our ctenophores say hi to Bluesky 👋🏼