@ehehenberger.bsky.social
Extremely cool PhD position alert! Plus a great supervisor!
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 2:13 PM
Extremely cool PhD position alert! Plus a great supervisor!
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
#ProtistsOnSky
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
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
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
#ProtistsOnSky
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#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed.
We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx
🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx
🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
Trip 3 and past the 100 species count! Thank you for hosting us in České Budějovice Julius and Galina (and everyone providing samples!), for the prime support, and a fantastic selection of cultures!
#expandthemall @moorefound.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & T. Richards
#expandthemall @moorefound.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & T. Richards
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed.
We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx
🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx
🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social
We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social
We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
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It's shameful that we are so behind with endometriosis, but a landmark $50 million donation offers new hope. vajenda.substack.com/p/decades-be...
Decades Behind: The Shameful Neglect of Endometriosis Research
A Landmark $50 Million Donation Offers New Hope for One of Medicine's Most Overlooked Conditions
vajenda.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's shameful that we are so behind with endometriosis, but a landmark $50 million donation offers new hope. vajenda.substack.com/p/decades-be...
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Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
June 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
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We have a new paper out today in Trends in Microbiology led by @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social, also ft. me, Tims Stephens and McDermott, and Gabby Panayotakis. Based on NASA + JGI-funded work on Cyanidiophyceae and other Yellowstone microbes.
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nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We have a new paper out today in Trends in Microbiology led by @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social, also ft. me, Tims Stephens and McDermott, and Gabby Panayotakis. Based on NASA + JGI-funded work on Cyanidiophyceae and other Yellowstone microbes.
nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/14...
14 Tipps für Medien beim Berichten über die rechtsextreme AfD
Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht.
www.volksverpetzer.de
June 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/14...
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Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
June 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
Omaya Dudin
Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why
unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
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Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends.
We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.
This is your last chance of joining us this summer.
#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy
We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.
This is your last chance of joining us this summer.
#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy
With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends.
We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.
This is your last chance of joining us this summer.
#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy
We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.
This is your last chance of joining us this summer.
#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy
What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.
We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)
📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj
Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada
📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj
Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.
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I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland).
Drop me a line if it sounds cool!
Deadline: 20.06.
Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
Drop me a line if it sounds cool!
Deadline: 20.06.
Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
May 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland).
Drop me a line if it sounds cool!
Deadline: 20.06.
Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
Drop me a line if it sounds cool!
Deadline: 20.06.
Link here:
mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
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A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky
Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky
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😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab!
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky
May 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab!
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky
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The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
europa.eu
May 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
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Algal symbiont diversity and host fitness variation in the amoebozoan photosymbiosis 🦠
by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Algal Symbiont Diversity and Host Fitness Variation in Amoebozoan Photosymbiosis
Photosymbioses, the symbiotic relationships between microalgae and non-photosynthetic eukaryotes, are sporadically found in many eukaryotic lineages. Only a few taxa, such as cnidarians and ciliates ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Algal symbiont diversity and host fitness variation in the amoebozoan photosymbiosis 🦠
by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
by Yamagishi et al.
@jeukmicro.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)!
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!
🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!
🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans
Abstract. Corals (Cnidaria; Anthozoa) play critical roles as habitat-forming species with a wide range, from warm shallow-water tropical coral reefs to col
academic.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)!
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!
🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!
🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals
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🚨🔬💗Whether investigating cell organelles or mapping proteins, together with Victor Puelles's lab we lay a roadmap for selecting optimal #ExM and #SuperResolution #microscopy combinations. Daria Aristova and Dominik Kylies review with amazing co-authors
pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...
pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...
April 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨🔬💗Whether investigating cell organelles or mapping proteins, together with Victor Puelles's lab we lay a roadmap for selecting optimal #ExM and #SuperResolution #microscopy combinations. Daria Aristova and Dominik Kylies review with amazing co-authors
pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...
pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...
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New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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🚨 3-year Postdoc Opportunity! Join me and the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #protist predation, #algae #plankton & flexibility | 💻 Environmental -omics | 🌊 Rivers 📅 Apply by May 15 | 🔗 kennethdumack.de | tinyurl.com/dumack
Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
April 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨 3-year Postdoc Opportunity! Join me and the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #protist predation, #algae #plankton & flexibility | 💻 Environmental -omics | 🌊 Rivers 📅 Apply by May 15 | 🔗 kennethdumack.de | tinyurl.com/dumack
Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky