@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb... #WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪

Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance doi.org/10.1088/1758... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @villumfonden.bsky.social www.flimagin3d.com

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

Happy to share our last study led by @akrao.bsky.social published in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showing how a planktonic host steals and hijacks chloroplast and mitochondrion of a microalga using 3D subcellular imaging. Funded by @moorefound.bsky.social; @erc.europa.eu #Protistsonsky #SymbioSky

Very happy to have contributed a tiny tiny piece to this beautiful story by Ananya & @johandecelle.bsky.social & co! Highlighting the amazing work by our Lab Manager Extraordinaire Marine! Who made some of the most beautiful #UExM images of #dinoflagellates out there with amazing #Rubisco stainings.

Take a deep dive into the world of cassiosomes and their photosymbionts with @gaelletoullec.bsky.social’s first PhD paper. These autonomous cell structures of rhizostome jellyfish could be exciting model systems to study cnidarian symbioses! 🧫🪸🔬 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @cpogoreutz.bsky.social

Similar to coral bleaching, heat stress disrupts the symbiosis between the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea and its algal endosymbionts. Check out @gaelletoullec.bsky.social‘s latest paper on why bleaching in Cassiopea can be invisible nonetheless. @cpogoreutz.bsky.social 🪸🧫🦠🔬 tinyurl.com/yu55ja25

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS 7th Annual #Cassiopeaworkshop Key Largo, FL May 10-12, 2024. APPLY HERE by Feb 1st: shorturl.at/AFGY7 Thanks to the Moore Foundation 🧪🐙🌎

Our paper on resource competition in the cnidarian-algal symbiosis is finally out. shorturl.at/gklxP we show that host and symbiont use photosynthates to fix ammonium. The resulting resource competition shapes the phenotype and defines ecological niche of the symbiosis. @reefgenomics.bsky.social 🪸🦠🔬