🎉 Big congrats to Alessandro Culicchii, a post-doc in my team! Thanks to the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Mobility Fund, he’s heading to Paris to work with @luciebittner.bsky.social on bacteria and protist association networks in Masurian lakes, using #MicroDivEr data. Good luck! #ProtistOnSky

Excited to be at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! Don’t miss Symposium #17: “Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions.” Registration is now open! #protistsonsky

✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10 days till registration closes for the Workshop on Phylogenomics and Genome Evolution! bsky.app/profile/jlst...

🧬 Registration is open for the Phylogenomics Workshop in Český Krumlov! Fantastic training opportunity for anyone working with genomic data and evolutionary questions. Highly recommended - amazing course, great community, and a fantastic setting!

Excited to share our new work on nanopore metabarcoding — showing how it can be used for protists and combined with short reads! Led by my PhD student Małgorzata Chwalińska, with our team at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social and @fabnot.bsky.social & Sarah Romac at @sbroscoff.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky

The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...

A proposal for journal accreditation systems to counter predatory practices. If funding agencies enforced these accreditations, predatory journals would quickly vanish. doi.org/10.1093/fems...

⚠️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

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

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards. www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

Apply now to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, which will take place 11-24 January, in the beautiful town of Český Krumlov, Czechia. Deadline: 20th of October, but applicants will be informed on a rolling basis. Spread the word among colleagues! 🙆🏽‍♀️ evomics.org/apply-worksh... #evomics2026

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

First stop of our @4euplusalliance.bsky.social project: Poland! 🐌🦆 We met with @ankarn.bsky.social (thank you! 🙏🏻) to exchange knowledge on bird schistosomes and swimmer's itch and, mainly, share our experience with water filtration and #eDNA detection. 🧬

The 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference is coming to Warsaw! Join us to share your research and connect with others in the field. Check out a fantastic lineup of invited speakers! 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline extended to May 31! More info & registration 👉 pec2025.biol.uw.edu.pl #PEC2025

📢 Deadline extended to May 5! Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social #ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬 📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025 🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia #ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Warsaw #DOKO event yesterday! It was wonderful to meet so many people keen to learn more about UW, its courses, and our student organisations 🧪🦴🦠🔬

Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! 🦠🔬 More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... #ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Position as an Associate Professor in Zoology at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I have a two year postdoc position in freshwater biodiversity and extreme evens open in my lab. Please share and apply! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025 #protist #protistsonsky protistologists.org/programs/fun...

🎄✨ Warmest Christmas wishes to our dear friends and collaborators! Wesołych Świąt! 🎅🎁✨ Here’s a festive glimpse from our lab's Christmas event - celebrating the season together. Wishing you joy and success in the coming year! 🌟

New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology

Taking advantage of the release of Clémence Boucher's 2nd paper on the toxins of the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum doi.org/10.1016/j.al... to promote also her first article on mixotrophy doi.org/10.1016/j.ha... with a cool video (2x speed) of Prymnesium phagocytosing a cryptophyte. #protistsonsky

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o. More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20... Please apply and/or circulate 😇

Advanced genetic techniques & #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate + methanogen #symbiosis phys.org/news/2024-10... Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host, habitat specific academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #protists by @micrott.bsky.social @symbiosisrox.bsky.social

Finally, some fantastic news for Polish science today! The Prime Minister @donald-tusk.bsky.social and Minister of Finance @andrzej-domanski.bsky.social have announced a 500 million PLN top-up for 🇵🇱 Poland's major research grant agency, @ncngovpl.bsky.social, in 2025!

"Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... In this Consensus View, we put forth the status quo and an agreed path forward to reconstruct LECA’s gene content. 🧪

Drama when a ciliate colony encounters a zoop. #protistaday #protistsonsky #marinelife

This really is an excellent paper. It shows that plastid protein import machinery can be inherited through serial transfer, and that we should not expect additional membranes in tertiary plastids. In other words, serial transfers got easier to explain www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just wrapped up an amazing #protist #metabarcoding course in Prague! Supported by 4EU+ Alliance, co-organized by Charles Uni, Sorbonne & Warsaw Uni. 🇨🇿🇫🇷🇵🇱 Huge thanks to all who made it happen, especially Gosia Chwalińska & Michał Karlicki who led #nanopore bioinformatics & to brilliant students! 🙌

Welcome to the PR2 databases BlueSky account. We will post here important news about the PR2 sequence databases as well as papers using the databases. pr2-database.org

Thrilled to start sharing our lab life and research updates here! Kicking things off with a huge congrats to Michał Karlicki on his successful PhD defence! 🎉 So proud of his journey and grateful for all he’s contributed to our team. Here’s to the next chapter, Michał! 💫 #ProtistOnSky

Just a few days left for abstract submission to attend the 2025 Microbiology Society Annual Conference and our session on genetic recombination in eukaryote microbes! Speakers include @jvhooff.bsky.social , Thomas Richards, Oliver Billker, Iván García-Cunchillos (@ankarn.bsky.social lab). Join us!

3rd protistology Nordics meeting now open for registration #protistsonsky protistologynordics.netlify.app/upcoming/pro...

Difficult to be more #protistsonsky that this. Very cool journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...