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RossellaAnnunziata @rossellaannunziata.bsky.social · May 23

Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms?
Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers!

To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...

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Arnone Lab @arnonelab.bsky.social · May 21

Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile.
Deadline JUNE 14th!
www.szn.it/index.php/it...

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 23

Don't which world you live in. In mine, everyone acknowledges Oct 7.

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 23

Should leave it to human rights attorneys and historians to define what is going on. Tragedy doesn't cut it. It's an indiscriminate mass slaughter. I am truly sorry for the fate of your family in Europe. Weapons and weaponized starving have and are exterminating plenty of families in Gaza, too.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · May 23

Children and families are dying of starvation if they survive the bombing. Yet still many hesitate to publicly criticise what is happening in Gaza

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

www.theguardian.com

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 23

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

www.theguardian.com

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 22

And, please, share with prospective PhD students interested in learning developmental cell biology, biochemistry, recombinant protein design and production, and bioinformatics

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 22

please, help me circulate to prospective students that may be interested in a a multi-faceted PhD involving developmental cell biology, biochemistry, recombinant protein design/production, and -omics data analysis.

Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 22

How do cellular organelles contribute to cell differentiation and development? Come join us @szndohrn.bsky.social‬. Make affinity reagents and purify sea urchin embryos' Golgi complexes at different stages to determine how its machinery is dynamically remodelled to assist embryogenesis.

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · May 22

PhD opportunity at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples ‪@szndohrn.bsky.social‬.

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Apr 13

it might be an irregular tetrahedron

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · Mar 7

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tour de force by Barna Lab

A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level

Millions of ribosomes are packed within mammalian cells, yet we lack tools to visualize them in toto and characterize their subcellular composition. In this study, we present ribosome expansion micros...

www.science.org

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Mar 1

Had a wonderful day at the Stazione Zoologica @szndohrn.bsky.social presenting our latest findings on the "Origins of neurons and nervous systems." Thank you @francescoferraro.bsky.social & Ina Arnone for the invitation. #choanoflagellates #sponges #ctenophores

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Jan 23

It reminds me the chestburster (Alien). Is it just me?

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · Jan 23

Great work by Joel Dacks & Cathy Jackson! Arf GTPases, key to eukaryotic organelle dynamics, trace their origins to prokaryotic ArfR GTPases in Asgardarchaeota. Structural and phylogenetic evidence reveals a link to eukaryogenesis and early endomembrane evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Asgard archaeal origins of Arf family GTPases involved in eukaryotic organelle dynamics - Nature Microbiology

Eukaryotic Arf family proteins involved in endomembrane organelle dynamics arose from the Asgard archaeal ArfR GTPases, indicating this capability likely originated in the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.

www.nature.com

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Jan 23

here is another recent example

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Age-associated interplay between zinc deficiency and Golgi stress hinders microtubule-dependent cellular signaling and epigenetic control

Brito et al. identify the relationship between Golgi stress and zinc deficiency as a significant factor in cellular aging by promoting Golgi senescence, disruption of Golgi and perinuclear microtubule...

www.cell.com

Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Jan 23

That the Golgi does more than secretion is an emerging theme

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatiotemporal dynamics of RAD51C between the Golgi and nucleus regulates homologous recombination and genomic stability

Intra-organelle communication is essential for cellular homeostasis, but the coordination between nuclear processes and cytoplasmic compartments remains poorly understood. Here, we uncover a novel spa...

www.biorxiv.org

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · Dec 10

#Multicellularity enthusiasts! Mark your calendars! EMBO Workshop on "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life"
📅 October 9-11, 2025, Barcelona

🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102

@csic.es @embopress.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKj...

EMBO meeting

YouTube video by Multicellgenome Lab

www.youtube.com

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Jan 9

Cool work. Congratulations, Pawel.

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · Jan 1

Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale

Organelle proteomics defines the cellular landscape of protein localization and highlights the role of subcellular remodeling in driving responses to perturbations such as viral infections.

www.cell.com

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · Dec 30

Personality is a factor in being able to make it scientifically. Not everyone is comfortable networking

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Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social · Dec 30

What a story!

www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...

How Bad Luck & Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize

The discoverer of a gene for a glowing protein  was driving a van for a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues  had won science's greatest honor.

www.discovermagazine.com

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · Dec 26

Gaza University publishes a call for volunteers to teach remotely.

All of Gazas twelve universities have been destroyed or badly damaged through Israeli air strikes or controlled demolitions

www.facebook.com/share/p/19f8...

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