I'm excited to share that one of the main outcomes of my PhD research was published in @pnas.org this week!! Thank you to everyone involved in this work! @johandecelle.bsky.social More details here: lnkd.in/emwBFun3 Thanks to @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social for covering our work: lnkd.in/ex9GmJNe

It's happening tomorrow! Zoom link via: tinyurl.com/43uckr2w We look forward to seeing you there

Our next DinoSphere seminar will be June 18th at 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CEST hosting Jana Pilátová and @gracezhong.bsky.social 🪱 Grace Zhong: Symbiont mobility in a dinoflagellate–acoel worm symbiosis 🪩 Jana Pilátová: Eyespots as photonic mirrors in Symbiodiniaceae More details on tinyurl.com/43uckr2w!

New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New funding opportunity from the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. We’re inviting teams of two researchers to pursue ambitious, high-risk projects advancing aquatic symbiosis (marine + freshwater). Open globally. Details + how to apply:  moore.org/SymbiosisRFP #RFP #AquaticSymbiosis

Really excited to share our new paper from @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social protist team! 🎉 We dive into protist symbioses and show how these interactions shape ecosystems and have played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotes 🦠

Looking for a course on STED? You still have time to apply by 17 April 🔬⏰ @gerbi-gmb.de @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eulimi.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @danishbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Our preprint list highlighting new tools and techniques in imaging is now up on FocalPlane. Check it out, and let us know if we are missing any research that we should add to the list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/03/m...

Great person, great science, great city, great opportunity 👇 And congratulations @manondemulder.bsky.social ! 🎉🎉🎉

The best stories are the personal ones. So before we get to the new preprint, stay awhile and listen #MobileLabs #TREC

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led [email protected], in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky

I see electron microscopy, so I repost 😁

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

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 #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

🚨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...

We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar! Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting: Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium
 Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids 📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT 
💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere
 Please spread the word! #protistonsky

🌊 Say hello to the second star in our #IconicFishes lineup: the pipefish 🎶 💡 Did you know? There are over 225 species of pipefishes and they belong to the same family as the seahorse! 🎨 Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage 🎭🌟 in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

Partnership between #algae & #bacteria reveals secrets of evolution phys.org/news/2025-08... Stepwise genome #evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing symbioses www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social, @mehrshmali.bsky.social, et al.

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

A small piece with PhD student @sorayazwahlen.bsky.social and Wiebe Kooistra on why we think Chaetoceros is an emerging model system for phytoplankton research, ranging from its ecological role, to unique cellular features and - of course - its many symbiotic interactions in the marine microbiome.

🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬 Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026! -> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬 Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026! -> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

TREC is hiring! @embl.org is looking for a field technician/engineer to coordinate soil sampling: plan activities, apply protocols, lead site scouting, coordinate teams & more. Join an amazing international team exploring a hidden universe beneath our feet. Please spread the word! bit.ly/4eSTPbZ

Such a pleasure to be co-organising the #Latsis Symposium this year with Guillermina ! Thanks to all the speakers & sponsors. And all our teams members who helped make this a reality. It just felt right. #Science #WildCells #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Biophysics #Behaviour

The Marine Research Centre (CIM) at the University of Vigo, Spain, and EMBL join forces to study how to curb red tides and anticipate the effects of marine heatwaves. The CELLBLOOM project will advance scientific understanding of current global changes in the ocean. www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST) 📅 1 July 9AM CEST 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj Spread the word! @protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends. We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June. This is your last chance of joining us this summer. #Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

Very excited for this first of its kind EMBO/EMBL Symposium on the Wild Frontiers of Model Organisms. So far Session 1 is a blast, from aiptasia symbiosis, oyster vibrio phage interactions, !! #EESWildModels @embldbunit.bsky.social @embl.org

One week left to apply! Come join us looking for cool dinoflagellates in cool places :)

Meet Neil Humphreys, Head of the Gene Editing and Virus Facility at EMBL Rome. Neil and his team work closely with scientists to develop new models, tools, and cutting-edge technologies to support discovery and translational research. Read more: www.embl.org/news/people-... @neilhumph.bsky.social

🌊 🦠 🌍 "Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet" is the theme of the 18th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (#SAME18), taking place in Barcelona from Sept 28 to Oct 3, 2025. Dive into cutting-edge research on microbial life in aquatic systems! More details at same18barcelona.com

Only a few days left to register to attend virtually the @embl.org symposium on the "Wild Frontier of Model Systems". Don't miss this opportunity if you are interested in exploring unconventional model organisms for a better understanding of biology, ecology and evolution

EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) has reached Malta, bringing its cutting-edge field equipment to support local scientists. The Mobile Laboratories team will work with the University of Malta for one month, providing advanced technology, expertise, and training. www.embl.org/news/connect...

Time flies - EMBLs Mobile Lab is already one week at the University of Malta! #MobileLab #AML

🔬 PhD Opportunity in Evolutionary Cell Biology! Interested in how cell types evolve? Join us to investigate placozoan cell types using advanced microscopy, single-cell omics, and functional assays! Apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323665 #PhDPosition #EvolutionaryBiology #CellBiology🧪

Postdoc available in Grenoble (France), funded by the ERC SymbiOCEAN, to work on the metabolic connectivity in planktonic photosymbiosis. 👉Passionate by symbiosis & marine protists? skills in bioinfo and molecular biology? Join us! Info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #protistsonsky #SymbioSky

📢 Last chance to register and join us in person for #EESWildModels! 🌏 Let's explore the wild frontiers of model systems together🌿🦈 Attend talks, network, socialise, and experience the atmosphere on the campus! 🧬🤩 👉🏻 s.embl.org/ees25-02 🎫 Register by 25 February!

Introducing the volumeEM Bluesky Starter Pack 🚀 featuring relevant accounts, feeds and resources To be included in the first edition of the volumeEM Bluesky starter pack, please either: Fill out our spreadsheet form (1 min to fill) forms.gle/dTnkUm7G2B2N... or Email us at [email protected]

Hey, Feel like quitting the old place for good? There's some help for even easier migration: www.helloquitx.com And if you feel like burning it all down to the ground on your way out, I can recommend github.com/lucahammer/t... 🔥🎉🔥🎊🔥

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’ll have more to say about this later, but please have a look, and I hope the #TeamTomo community finds good uses for those 1829 Chlamy tomograms 🧪🧶🧬🌾🔬

#PhD #position #alert 2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC #1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a #2 on virus-host stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru) Please share!

We aim to serve as a global hub for microbial imaging—offering #workshops, training, and tools to foster the adoption of expansion microscopy. Though focused on Euks, we’ll also support researchers working on #bacteria & #archaea. So please reach out. Merry Xmass to all 🙂 4/4

🍾Our small #UExM adventure is only starting! #ProtistsOnSky We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE @embl.org LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi... 1/4

EMBL’s Prevedel Group scaled down a microscope to miniature size while scaling up imaging resolution. 🔬 OCM is a portable microscope to image label-free samples, with different magnifications and within fractions of a second. Read more: www.embl.org/news/science... 🧪 @prevedel-lab.bsky.social

Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗ Bottom line: - great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc... - to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n

Thanks for making our lives easier @amanzanom.bsky.social !