Yash Pardasani
LightNews LightNews
thealgaeman.bsky.social
Yash Pardasani
@thealgaeman.bsky.social
310 followers 370 following 56 posts
PhD student Uppsala University | Burki lab | Stalking #Paulinella amoebas to understand plastid origin (primary endosymbiosis) 🧬🔬|
@ERC_Research project PlastidOrigin

https://www.burki-lab.net/yash-phd-student.html
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
thealgaeman.bsky.social
Yash Pardasani @thealgaeman.bsky.social · Aug 18
The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia 🇨🇦

Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social

#protistsonsky
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
filiphusnik.bsky.social
Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
fburki.bsky.social
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
brucedstaylor.bsky.social
The amoeba Difflugia bacillifera builds its shell from things that contain silica, and it is not particular about the source. These ones have incorporated whole shells from another testate amoeba (Euglypha), along with diatoms, algal cysts and chunks of rock. #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #peatlands
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
thealgaeman.bsky.social
Super cool!! Every protist needs ExM! 🤩
Congratulations to everyone involved
dudinlab.bsky.social Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 15d
🚨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...
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
evanowack.bsky.social
✨X-ray crystallography reveals surprising twist in how proteins enter the unique photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella. The chromatophore targeting peptide (crTP) folds into a 3D structure, hinting that folded proteins cross peptidoglycan and inner membrane. (1/2)
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
crTP X-ray structure
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
floravincent.bsky.social
Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
piwoszomonas.bsky.social
Our new paper on what heterotrophic nanoflagellates do in nature doi.org/10.1111/1462... or www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... Data available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #ProtistsOnSky
High‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Food Web Dynamics and Structure During Phytoplankton Blooms in the Baltic Sea
Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are typically considered to be bacterial grazers, but some are actually omnivores and predators, both eating also other eukaryotes. Thanks to a high-frequency sampling c...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
ehehenberger.bsky.social
Please join us next week for the second iteration of the DinoSphere Seminars! This time our two speakers will talk about host-associated dinoflagellates and any challenges they might have encountered when working with them. All current and future friends of dinoflagellates welcome!
#ProtistsOnSky
manondemulder.bsky.social Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · 18d
We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar!

Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:

Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium

Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids

📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT

💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere


Please spread the word!
#protistonsky
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
mariezelena.bsky.social
Our collaboration with @mbonhivers.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! 🎉Using U-ExM, we mapped the formation of the flagellar pocket collar in T. brucei. Huge thanks to everyone involved — one step closer to #PhDone!

#ExM #oneringtorulethemall #Bilbo1 #trypanosoma #protistsonsky
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Oct 10
The flagellar pocket collar (FPC) is a cytoskeletal structure essential for nutrient uptake & immune evasion in #Trypanosome. @mbonhivers.bsky.social &co use U-ExM to provide novel insights into FPC biogenesis, and reveal 2 unknown cytoskeletal structures @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3bWi6
A Trypanosoma brucei cell visualized by confocal microscopy after ultrastructure expansion. The cell was immunolabelled for the BILBO1 protein (yellow) and stained with fluorescent NHS-ester (grey). The flagellar pocket is highlighted in pink. Credit: Marie Zelená
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
sallywarring.bsky.social
A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates.

We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky
Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts
Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Members of genus Bodo are considered the closest free-living relatives to the parasitic ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
godi.bsky.social
⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky
Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications
A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.
www.nature.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
burnsajohn.bsky.social
I've seen this several times: when Acantharians get big enough they like to eat tintinnids. And they always orient with the lorica opening pointed in: like they are slurping up a little jello shot. That glass house can't protect you from these weird predators little ciliate! 🦑 #protistsonsky
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
floravincent.bsky.social
Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
www.embl.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
heikezimm.bsky.social
Are you interested in how climate change is reshaping #Arctic #marine ecosystems and if the risks associated with harmful algal blooms and marine #phycotoxins is increasing? 🧬❄️🌊

Come, join us in beautiful and vibrant Copenhagen -
2 weeks left to apply!

#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #HAB
September 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
protistsforthewin.bsky.social
Now completely published :)
Really proud of this paper led with Karla at @cstairs.bsky.social lab.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Anaerobic breviate protist survival in microcosms depends on microbiome metabolic function
Abstract. Anoxic and hypoxic environments serve as habitats for diverse microorganisms, including unicellular eukaryotes (protists) and prokaryotes. To thr
doi.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
micromotility.bsky.social
Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms
September 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
computingcaitie.bsky.social
I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪
September 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
burnsajohn.bsky.social
Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
thealgaeman.bsky.social
Excited to share our third heterotrophic #Paulinella culture from Haida Gwaii, Canada! :)

#ProtistsOnSky
September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
godi.bsky.social
New preprint 🌊🫶
"A diverse community constitutes global coccolithophore calcium carbonate stocks"
Three large coccolithophores together hold about half of the global CaCO₃ stock!
G. huxleyi <10%
➡️ climate models need to include this broader diversity!
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#protistsonsky
The morphology of notable coccolithophore species. The Scanning Electron Microscopy images are coloured by the ratio between the cellular organic and inorganic carbon (CIC:COC) contents.
September 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
hannajohannesson.bsky.social
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
su.varbi.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
nicolecoots.bsky.social
found this lil guy in a sand sample recently 😍🦑
#protistsonsky
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
thibautbrunet.bsky.social
New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵
Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates
Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...
www.cell.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by Yash Pardasani
geologyjohnson.bsky.social
#FossilFriday an SEM image of a 1.4 billion year old #acritarch. The first image shows you the surface topography. The other images are pseudo x-rays showing the internal structures. I figured out how to do these tiny x rays on Weds, it's going to be really useful in future. #geology #paleontology
Grey scale microscope photo of a tiny fossil that looks like a round wrinkly Pastry. The fossil is about 0.07 mm across. Grey scale microscope photo of a tiny fossil that looks like a round wrinkly Pastry. This image uses x rays to show the internal structure. The fossil is about 0.07 mm across. Grey scale microscope photo of a tiny fossil that looks like a round wrinkly Pastry. This image uses x rays to show the internal structure. This version has lower contrast than the previous x rays image. The fossil is about 0.07 mm across.
September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
thealgaeman.bsky.social
Our 2nd heterotrophic #Paulinella culture!
Really proud of this one. After days at the microscope picking cells, I finally got it growing happily :)

#protistsonsky
September 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM