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annaschreck.bsky.social
This past Thursday I successfully defended my dissertation! Thank you @symbiosisrox.bsky.social and the rest of the lab for making it a super fun celebration! I dressed up my son as a #ciliate for the occasion and we jumped into Narragansett Bay at @urigso.bsky.social beach afterwards #ProtistsOnSky
The Beinart lab plus friends pose in front of chilly Narragansett Bay after their inaugural post defense polar plunge Dr. Anna and her adorable son dressed as a ciliate wave goodbye to the zoom participants of her defense talk
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
burnsajohn.bsky.social
This is a beautiful thread on mechanisms of a property of [some? only giant?] unicellular #protistsonsky that I wouldn't even believe is possible if it wasn't demonstrated so clearly: the ability of a single cell to heal cuts! 🤯🤯🤯
wallaceucsf.bsky.social Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 2d
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
mjamy.bsky.social
Soooooo coooooolllll!!!!

#protistsonsky
wallaceucsf.bsky.social Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 2d
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
delcampolab.bsky.social
.@rociomozo.bsky.social is officially a PhD student in our lab! Her thesis project will explore the evolutionary history of Suessiales and the origin of symbiosis in the group🦠 Welcome!!🥳 #protists #corals #symbiosis #protistsonsky
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
fburki.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#protistsonsky
Deep‐branching eukaryotes and early events in protist evolution
The first eukaryotes evolved from their archaean ancestors in the early Proterozoic, likely ca. 2000–1800 million years ago (Mya). Their macroscopic multicellular descendants, such as plants, heterok...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
burnsajohn.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky (not always sure which # would be best)
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 3d
A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists(Amoebozoa and Rhizaria)
#protists #eukaryotes #amoeba
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
elizabethbeston.bsky.social
Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks!
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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
annaschreck.bsky.social
This is a long shot but does anyone know how to pronounce Epalxellidae?? 😂 #ProtistsOnSky
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
godi.bsky.social
🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!

Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
dumack.bsky.social
In case anyone’s wondering how things are going in my new position at the University of Koblenz - I think this picture makes it pretty clear we’re in great spirits! 😄 Julia and I are out sampling #cyanobacteria and #protistsonsky on local lakes :)
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
centriolelab.bsky.social
In French - Virginie on Swiss radio! 🎙️ She talks about our latest collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social #UExM #ProtistsOnSky
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
fredchaux.bsky.social
Who is this cutie?!
(Šibenik estuary, Croatia, magnif 40x)
@institutrb.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
burnsajohn.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
pastoxygen.bsky.social PO2 - Past Ocean Oxygen Working Group @pastoxygen.bsky.social · 11d
Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
#ProtistsOnSky
rorycraig.bsky.social Rory Craig @rorycraig.bsky.social · 14d
Excited to introduce Auxenochlorella as a new algal reference organism for fundamental plant science and bioengineering. A paper in two parts: a genetic toolkit for site-specific genomic manipulation, paired with the most unusual genome I’ve ever worked on

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Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella
Auxenochlorella, green algae shaped by evolutionary forces acting on vegetative diploids, are amenable to discovery research and bioengineering via efficie
academic.oup.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
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tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
dudinlab.bsky.social
Our new #ExÂME effort with the @moorefound.bsky.social, is scaling up with T. Richards & @gautamdey.bsky.social : antibody screens, optimized protocols, open-access imaging, and community training--> all toward a shared atlas.

👉 Join us: www.dudinlab.com
#ProtistsOnSky #CellBiology #Evolution
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
dudinlab.bsky.social
🚨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...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
godi.bsky.social
This week we were sampling #coccolithophores #protistsonsky
on a beautiful Adriatic coast, again.
#CoccoChannel
Here presenting miss Helicosphaera 🌊🦠🧫🔬
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
fburki.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky
Sexual life cycle establishes the unicellular red algae Cyanidiophyceae as a genetically tractable model lineage for eukaryotic evolution
The thermo-acidophilic unicellular algal class Cyanidiophyceae is the earliest-branching lineage in red algae, which diverged from Viridiplantae lineage (green algae and land plants) soon after chloro...
www.biorxiv.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
fburki.bsky.social
Phylogenomic analysis of deep-branching telonemid #protistsonsky
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Phylogenomic analysis of deep-branching telonemid
Abstract. The evolutionary history of eukaryotic supergroups has been investigated primarily by large-scale phylogenomics, but one major hindrance to conti
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October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM