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First attempt at #ExM in my lab was a success, after a training boot camp by king of the method @dudinlab.bsky.social. Lots of details to iron out, but here is a pretty picture of Cryptomonas (testbed species) #protistsonsky (confocal: Anne Walraven)

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🚨New preprint out! We show that Arcella spp., a shell-bearing amoeba, controls the abundance of the filamentous bacterium Ca. Microthrix parvicella, the main culprit behind sludge bulking in wastewater treatment plants. Interested in applicability of protists? Read along! #protistsonsky #microsky 🧵👇

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#ProtistsOnSky

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I'm starting my research group in Koblenz on April 1st (no April Fools' joke!) and will soon advertise two postdoc positions in #protist #ecology and/or #genomics. If you're a (soon-to-be?) postdoc-level #protistologist looking for a job, get in touch! One position on wastewater, the other flexible!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

SHUT UP! Did I just see this? rubs eyes. How amazing are these amoebae??? This is a timelapse and I adore seeing their pseudopodia stretch out as they head towards each other. Was it the food? Was it defence? Was it love? What do you think? 🦑 #plankton #protistsonsky

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Our new review just out @theplantjournal.bsky.social led by Yixuan Li and in collaboration with @karaslab.bsky.social Genetic engineering in diatoms: advances and prospects doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

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PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243 #protistsonsky

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CCAP Algaculture online CPD course - 23rd & 24th April 2025 For more information visit our course webpage and complete the online application form: www.ccap.ac.uk/index.php/al...

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We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Paper came out today that represents a long trip for many members of my lab. It took years to get these methods to work and gather the data so everyone involved should be very proud of the interesting outcome. Thanks to the whole gang for their perseverance on this one!

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Adding planktonic algae to anoxic marine sediments promotes the anaerobic growth of phagotrophic #eukaryotes. The #Neoproterozoic Rise of Algae may have similarly promoted benthic phagotrophs, directing carbon, energy, and nutrients to early animals. #ProtistsOnSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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#ProtistsOnSky

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the third chapter of my PhD is now published! 🚨 We describe the protist symbiont diversity of the termite species Reticulitermes tibialis. This project was performed in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) which was super fun 😊 #protistsonsky authors.elsevier.com/a/1kaMa56A9x...

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#ProtistsOnSky

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#ProtistsOnSky

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#protistsonsky

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Asked similar question before but I try again. Anyone knows proteins that localize like this? This protein is present in diplonemids/bodonids/euglenids/Naegleria, which have two flagella, but not in trypanosomatids that have just one flagellum. Potentially interesting for flagella/cilia community?

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

A perfect little thing, crafted by a cunning amoeboid. This shell was collected in a calcareous fen near Winnipeg, Canada. It's the handiwork (pseudopodiwork?) of the cercozoan amoeba Scutiglypha scutigera (=Euglypha scutigera). #ProtistsOnSky #TestateAmoebae #peatland

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Interested in protist parasites? Want to learn some fun bioinformatics? Think this apicomplexan looks cool? Great! Come and do some protist genomics at @uniofbath.bsky.social! We're advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship open to UK & International applicants! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

I know everything is on fire, literally and existentially, but I'm really proud of this paper out today, led by my lab manager, Kristina Terpis, with some amazing collaborators. We expanded sampling in photosynthetic stramenopiles and show total plastid loss twice! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Heterotrophic Paulinella culture! The cells are growing happily in the lab #protistsonsky #ERC research project PlastidOrigin @fburki.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Two weeks left to apply to this position

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Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

The rhizarian testate amoeba Euglypha rotunda eats its co-cultured bacteria, but it will also chow down on GFP E. coli. One day I'll use these vids to measure digestion rates. @thealgaeman.bsky.social another answer to what they eat! #protistaday #protistsonsky

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Sometimes you need to take your little shelled amoebas out for a walk. Rhizarian testate amoeba euglypha rotunda #protistsonsky #protistaday

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

Interested in #polar #algae and their #predators? In this small paper we describe a novel genus of amoebae preying on #diatoms! Interestingly, the 18S sequence of #arctic and #antarctic isolates is completely identical. Meet Katarium polorum! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

A gorgeous planktonic foram from the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. With @blancobercial.bsky.social. Your #protistaday! #protistsonsky #marinelife

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nature.com/articles/s41... #protistsonsky

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Thought I'd reshare our Paulinella staining here! We did this together with @beaplab.bsky.social - huge thanks to BEAP lab for teaching me this amazing staining! Can’t wait to apply it to novel Paulinella species ;) #protistsonsky #ERC research project PlastidOrigin @fburki.bsky.social

submitted 140 days ago • 5 comments

JOB ALERT! A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts. The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics). #PhDposition www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Currently sampling in Curaçao, #protists of the Caribbean

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