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Francesco Ferraro
@francescoferraro.bsky.social
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Cell biologist - Golgi enthusiast - I follow the Golgi ribbon through deep time.
Working at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Fact are facts, but opinions are my own
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rossellaannunziata.bsky.social
Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms?
Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers!

To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...
May 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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arnonelab.bsky.social
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!
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May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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sheencr.bsky.social
Children and families are dying of starvation if they survive the bombing. Yet still many hesitate to publicly criticise what is happening in Gaza
What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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PhD opportunity at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples ‪@szndohrn.bsky.social‬.
May 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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eraldo.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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kurianlab.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tour de force by Barna Lab
A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level
Millions of ribosomes are packed within mammalian cells, yet we lack tools to visualize them in toto and characterize their subcellular composition. In this study, we present ribosome expansion micros...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
Had a wonderful day at the Stazione Zoologica @szndohrn.bsky.social presenting our latest findings on the "Origins of neurons and nervous systems." Thank you @francescoferraro.bsky.social & Ina Arnone for the invitation. #choanoflagellates #sponges #ctenophores
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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ishier.bsky.social
Great work by Joel Dacks & Cathy Jackson! Arf GTPases, key to eukaryotic organelle dynamics, trace their origins to prokaryotic ArfR GTPases in Asgardarchaeota. Structural and phylogenetic evidence reveals a link to eukaryogenesis and early endomembrane evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Asgard archaeal origins of Arf family GTPases involved in eukaryotic organelle dynamics - Nature Microbiology
Eukaryotic Arf family proteins involved in endomembrane organelle dynamics arose from the Asgard archaeal ArfR GTPases, indicating this capability likely originated in the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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That the Golgi does more than secretion is an emerging theme

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spatiotemporal dynamics of RAD51C between the Golgi and nucleus regulates homologous recombination and genomic stability
Intra-organelle communication is essential for cellular homeostasis, but the coordination between nuclear processes and cytoplasmic compartments remains poorly understood. Here, we uncover a novel spa...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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multicellgenome.bsky.social
#Multicellularity enthusiasts! Mark your calendars! EMBO Workshop on "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life"
📅 October 9-11, 2025, Barcelona

🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102

@csic.es @embopress.org
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EMBO meeting
YouTube video by Multicellgenome Lab
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December 10, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
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
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frezzalab.bsky.social
Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale

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Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale
Organelle proteomics defines the cellular landscape of protein localization and highlights the role of subcellular remodeling in driving responses to perturbations such as viral infections.
www.cell.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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michael-e-ward.bsky.social
What a story!

www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
How Bad Luck & Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize
The discoverer of a gene for a glowing protein 
was driving a van for a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues 
had won science's greatest honor.
www.discovermagazine.com
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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elhamfakhro.bsky.social
Gaza University publishes a call for volunteers to teach remotely.

All of Gazas twelve universities have been destroyed or badly damaged through Israeli air strikes or controlled demolitions

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Redirecting...
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December 26, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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tmkeesey.bsky.social
Season’s Greetings from PhyloPic! www.phylopic.org/collections/...
Silhouette Image Collection - PhyloPic
A collection of silhouette images from PhyloPic.
www.phylopic.org
December 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Spatially barcoding biochemical reactions using DNA nanostructures unveil a major contact mechanism in proximity labeling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.17.628942v1
December 18, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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This one is for the holiday season
December 18, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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claudiobussi.bsky.social
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Direct Intercellular Vesicle Exchange between Adjacent Cells
Intercellular communication plays a central role in the development and integrity of multicellular organisms. Vesicle transfer, especially through extracellular space, has recently been highlighted as...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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locbp.bsky.social
Just out on bioRxiv, Carla Miró reports the first quantitative determination of the redox state of glutathione in the Golgi apparatus. Spoiler alert: it is very oxidized and in relatively low concentrations!
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Characterization of the Glutathione Redox State in the Golgi Apparatus
Redox homeostasis is crucial for cell function, and, in eukaryotic cells, studying it in a compartmentalized way is essential due to the redox variations between different organelles. The redox state ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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helenzsci.bsky.social
***Help needed*** I’m making a list of ongoing webinar series in #cellbio, please help me find others that I’m missing!
So far, I have:
- Membrane trafficking
- Intermediate filaments
- Mito Talks/Chats
- Motors in quarantine
- Fragile nucleosome
- Mito911 Webinar Series
December 6, 2024 at 4:32 PM
francescoferraro.bsky.social
Wow!
November 28, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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andrewjroger.bsky.social
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. This Consensus View lays out guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Com...
journals.plos.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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benneely.com
I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!

#proteomics #bioinformatics
Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
biology.arizona.edu
November 24, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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christlet.bsky.social
When you get lucky in your field of view
November 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM