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Maite Freire
@maitefreired.bsky.social
PhD candidate @institutpasteur | Piplettes_mag✍🏻
Lift Out just feel otherworldly🌚
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Paper accepted!!
July 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The End! Thanks all for joining us🙌🏻🙌🏻 Hope everyone enjoy this amazing week💚💚
#ChoanoCon2025
May 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
And best poster for Núria & Max Coyle!!!
May 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Best talk Prize was Margarita Skamnelou!
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
And the last day:

🔷Keynote lecture : @floravincent.bsky.social– Marine microbial interactions across scales
🔷Nicole King (UC Berkeley/HHMI, USA) – The secret lives of choanoflagellates

#ChoanoCon2025
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🔷 Jacob L. Steenwyk (UC Berkeley): Rooting the animal tree
🔷 Alex de Mendoza (Queen Mary University): The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells
#ChoanoCon2025
May 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Session 5: Structure, Phylogeny & Gene Regulation
🔷 Margarita Skamnelou (IBE, Spain): Diversity and Conservation in Choanoflagellate Behavior and Extracellular Structures
🔷 Deepak Krishnamurthy (UC Berkeley) Biophysics of microscale adhesion and assembly in Loricate choanoflagellates
May 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🔷: @frutag33.bsky.social Choanoflagellate stress response signaling
🔷 Marina Carmona Rivas (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spain): Looking for the light in the sea darkness: in-situ identification of a new unicellular relative of animals in marine environmental samples
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Session 3:
🔷 Koryu Kin (Juntendo University, Japan): Pushing the boundary of premetazoan multicellularity
🔷 @multicellgenome.bsky.social (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spain): Models to study the origin of animal development
#ChoanoCon2025
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🔷 Alain García de las Bayonas(UC Berkeley): Cupidon GPCR regulates mating in animal relatives
🔷 Dinah Davison (Kansas State): Rapid evolution of differentiation in volvocine algae
#ChoanoCon2025
May 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Session 3: Evolution & Differentiation
🔷 @jgahan.bsky.social (University of Galway): Chromatin & cell differentiation in choanoflagellates
🔷 Barry Leadbeater (Birmingham): A complex loricate choanoflagellate gets a new name
May 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
@hiralshah.bsky.social: Diversity and evolution of microtubule organisation in Ichthyosporea
🔷Martin Carr (University of Huddersfield): Evolution of codon bias in choanoflagellates and Obazoa
#ChoanoCon2025
May 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Session 2: Cytoskeletons & Genomic Evolution
🔷Hélène de Maleprade (Sorbonne Universités): Active and passive control of micro-algal collective motion
🔷 @dudinlab.bsky.social: Cytoskeletal architecture of ichthyosporean development
May 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Meanwhile…
📍Bordeaux
May 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🔷Mimi Koehl (UC Berkeley): How multicellularity and colony form affect choanoflagellate performance
🔷 @evapillai.bsky.social
Membrane to cortex attachment proteins in choanoflagellate multicellularity: Membrane–cortex attachments
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Session 1: Cell biology & multicellularity
🔷David Booth (UCSF):Ecological perspectives on choanoflagellate cell differentiation
🔷 @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social t: Choanoflagellates & the origin of neurons Neuronal origins
🔷 @agathechaigne.bsky.social : Cytoplasmic bridges in S. rosetta
#ChoanoCon2025
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Choanoflagellates & Friends conference is starting!!!!
Hope you're looking forward to a week of exciting science

If you have any problems, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Núria or Thibaut
#ChoanoCon
May 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The day began with lab introductions!!
May 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The Choanoflagellates & Friends preconference starts today! 🧫🌊 🇫🇷🗼
#ChoanoCon
May 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
📣⏳ Less than 3 days to go!!

"2025 Choanoflagellate & Friends Workshop" over May 20-22 – hosted by the Evolutionary Cell Biology & Morphogenesis Lab (Thibaut Brunet)

📍 Paris (Institut Pasteur)
🔗 2025choanocon.wordpress.com
📧 choanocon@gmail.com

@thibautbrunet.bsky.social

#ChoanoCon2025
May 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Dev Retreat!
April 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
February 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Thecate vs Eva
December 17, 2024 at 8:02 PM
First 🧇 lamella!!!!
December 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM