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Group leader at @UNIGE Evolutionary cell biology & multicellular developmental diversity of protists. www.dudinlab.com #Ichthyosporea, #Multicellularity, #Evolution, #Embryo, #Development, #Protist, #UExM, #Cytoskeleton, #Actin, #Expansion #Microscopy
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"The projected emissions from 15-months of direct war activities were greater than the annual emissions of 36 individual countries and territories" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... And, as individuals, we are asked to pee under the shower... Stop the killing !

This is already shaping up to be one of the best gatherings I'm co-organising with @michaelraissig.bsky.social - & I think it'll stay that way for a while.

Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud Jan 25-27 2026 biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...

Evidence for #recombination, and maybe #meiosis, in free-living #Rhizaria! I wish the results were clearer. As so often we raised more questions than we could answer :) If you are into #sex and the #meiosis-toolkit, this is an important read! #ProtistsOnSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks @thibautbrunet.bsky.social & the whole Brunet Lab. I promise next time we wont need an #ExM workshop ! as everyone in this #community would be an #expert by that time.

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Really proud to have had a small contribution to this work. Shane Farrell and Doug Rasher led the way showing that climate change can cause feedback effects that may make it difficult to restore ecosystems. In this case kelp is inhibited by red algae that replaces it www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats again @akrao.bsky.social & @johandecelle.bsky.social !!!

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

Delighted to see our work now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social. A great place for Bostrychia to stake its claim as an emerging red algal model system. Check it out here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

🌱 Excited to share that I will start my lab at EPFL, CH this June supported by a @snsf.ch Starting Grant! ramakrishna.ch We are interested in plant mineral nutrition and will deep-dive into the fine-tuned mechanisms employed by plants to adapt to abiotic stresses such as salinity. #newPI #plantsci

Trying something here: Dear (student), Nice to hear from you. Please tell me more about how our ongoing work aligns with your interests and experience! FWIW, I value honesty and clarity over polish, so I’d appreciate hearing what you (and not what ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini) think. Cheers, Will

You did it @syncellbiolab.bsky.social !! Amazing . Congrats to the Team and what gorgeous imaging ... Wow

You just can't get bored of this view... #Grandvaux #Switzerland

Congrats to the team for this critical push. Going on the JC list as of now.

The deadline is getting closer ... ⏳ #Science #ProtistOnSky #Biology

Fun Q&A with Curr Bio in which I discuss mammoths, Don Quijote, and why you should not fall in love with a hypothesis authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2MF3QW8S...

Oh such a pleasure to look at the figures... #Actin #fusion #focus for the win !

New preprint from the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab! 💐 Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.

Very excited to get started! 🔬🕵🏻‍♂️ If you’ve got some cool bugs, shoot us a mail! #UExM

@fmikus.bsky.social, the #UExM powerhouse & new #DudinLab member is already setting his bench and tools in #Geneva. Welcome Felix and looking forward to the next 3y (at least!)

🚨 2.5-year PhD or Postdoc Opportunity! Join me and the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #bioindicators, #protists, #wastewater 🌊 | German language skills are necessary,Apply by May 16 | 🔗 kennethdumack.de | tinyurl.com/dumack2 Please share! #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

Having #fun with the team, testing the new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social Thunder combo with #Crest Optics Spinning disk on our favorite #Ichthyosporeans (here #Creolimax) and other Expanded #Microbial #Eukaryotes #UExM

New insights into neurotransmitter evolution from a GPCR screen in Trichoplax, a neuron-less animal. with Yanez-Guerra et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649542v1 Trichoplax has tryptamine, tyramine, and phenethylamine receptors […] [Original post on biologists.social]

#Cryo-ExM is really the way to go when you can do it & wanna look at membranes 🤩... Beautiful & Congrats.

New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... by Corinna Benz et al. #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

A dream come true: the first expansion microscopy images of C. flexa 🤩 Generated by Mylan & Uzuki who learned from the best (@hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social). We will learn so much from these!

Happy to have played a small part in this. Prometheid is a proposed supergroup that contains previously deep orphan lineages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky

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.

First study from the lab is out! We describe ApuRs, a new family of microbial rhodopsins unique from apusomonads. ApuRs represent the first anion-conducting rhodopsin channels that can be controlled by UV light, offering potential as new optogenetic tools. #protistsonsky doi.org/10.1101/2025... 👇

Absolutely phenomenal week for the #EESWildModels. A pure celebration of biological wonders, and incredibly engaged participants. Thanks to all the co-organizers and @events.embl.org for making this possible ! See you in 2027 ? (please fill the feedback form)

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

Thats the proof, that PI to PI knowledge transfer can still work (for now😂). Yay very happy.

Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very Happy to finally see this story out. I remember the first time @archaeon-alex.bsky.social showed me the videos maybe 3-4y ago on a Zoom call ! Mind blown then and still mind blown today. A must read for all.