Amel Latifi
@latifilab.bsky.social
We explore the growth, differentiation, and time perception of cyanobacteria, and we are passionate about capturing their processes.
https://lcb.cnrs.fr/team/latifi/
@Aix-Marseille university @LCB_CNRS
https://lcb.cnrs.fr/team/latifi/
@Aix-Marseille university @LCB_CNRS
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If you're interested in AI, where it's heading, and the people behind the wheel, perhaps you'll give our new feature a look www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
The future of AI
Artificial intelligence is flying high. Nature asked leading innovators what they think will happen next.
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you're interested in AI, where it's heading, and the people behind the wheel, perhaps you'll give our new feature a look www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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[ #VeilleESR #LRU ] « On va dans le mur » : des présidents d’université dénoncent un sous-financement chronique
par @cberthelemy.bsky.social
Très intéressant : CY Université est dans la même panade, malgré des indicateurs hors normes, montrant un grand respect des injonctions politiques.
par @cberthelemy.bsky.social
Très intéressant : CY Université est dans la même panade, malgré des indicateurs hors normes, montrant un grand respect des injonctions politiques.
« On va dans le mur » : des présidents d’université dénoncent un sous-financement chronique
Conditions d’études dégradées, risque de fermeture de formation, manque de titulaires pour coordonner les parcours... Les universités manque
www.leparisien.fr
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
[ #VeilleESR #LRU ] « On va dans le mur » : des présidents d’université dénoncent un sous-financement chronique
par @cberthelemy.bsky.social
Très intéressant : CY Université est dans la même panade, malgré des indicateurs hors normes, montrant un grand respect des injonctions politiques.
par @cberthelemy.bsky.social
Très intéressant : CY Université est dans la même panade, malgré des indicateurs hors normes, montrant un grand respect des injonctions politiques.
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📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
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They missed an opportunity, instead of calling it simply the “Scholar h-index (Sh-index)”, they could have called it the Scholar h Information Technology index, which would then be abbreviated as the ShIT-index…
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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AI is being used more at universities, and, to some, it provides an opportunity to improve education and prepare students. But many education specialists are concerned it could impede learning. Nature reports on these worries. #Academicsky 🧪
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.
go.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
AI is being used more at universities, and, to some, it provides an opportunity to improve education and prepare students. But many education specialists are concerned it could impede learning. Nature reports on these worries. #Academicsky 🧪
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Proud of our new study out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
Using E. coli lacking all 8 endopeptidases, we provide direct evidence that peptidoglycan expansion during elongation requires ED-mediated insertion of one glycan strand at a time. This can be performed by MepS, MepM, MepH and PBP7 #microsky
Using E. coli lacking all 8 endopeptidases, we provide direct evidence that peptidoglycan expansion during elongation requires ED-mediated insertion of one glycan strand at a time. This can be performed by MepS, MepM, MepH and PBP7 #microsky
Role of endopeptidases in lateral cell wall expansion in Escherichia coli
Peptidoglycan, the major constituent of bacterial cell walls, is a giant macromolecule made of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides, which pr…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Proud of our new study out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
Using E. coli lacking all 8 endopeptidases, we provide direct evidence that peptidoglycan expansion during elongation requires ED-mediated insertion of one glycan strand at a time. This can be performed by MepS, MepM, MepH and PBP7 #microsky
Using E. coli lacking all 8 endopeptidases, we provide direct evidence that peptidoglycan expansion during elongation requires ED-mediated insertion of one glycan strand at a time. This can be performed by MepS, MepM, MepH and PBP7 #microsky
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Carbon metabolism shapes FtsZ levels and cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs
Carbon metabolism shapes FtsZ levels and cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 - Communications Biology
This study provides evidence on how carbon metabolism regulates cell division among cyanobacteria. Manipulation of the TCA pathway directly impacts the FtsZ-dependent cell division by regulating its expression via the transcriptional factor NtcA.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Carbon metabolism shapes FtsZ levels and cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs
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Inside a thylakoid membrane
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Inside a thylakoid membrane
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
buff.ly/U9TzrOh
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Pass it along.
Pubmed was the only reliable source for scientific articles. Guess we can adapt to this database . So much winning!!!🤨
Pubmed was the only reliable source for scientific articles. Guess we can adapt to this database . So much winning!!!🤨
🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Pass it along.
Pubmed was the only reliable source for scientific articles. Guess we can adapt to this database . So much winning!!!🤨
Pubmed was the only reliable source for scientific articles. Guess we can adapt to this database . So much winning!!!🤨
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Open position !!
Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social.
To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social.
To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
September 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Open position !!
Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social.
To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social.
To apply at the E level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
To apply at the post-doc level:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Reposted by Amel Latifi
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that
facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.
www.cell.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
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Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
Thanks to all interviewees🎤
Thanks to all interviewees🎤
Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.
www.quantamagazine.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
Thanks to all interviewees🎤
Thanks to all interviewees🎤
Lucky ISPP participants, anyone wants to share some of the science you are living?
three raccoons standing on top of a white box with the words " please please please we want some "
ALT: three raccoons standing on top of a white box with the words " please please please we want some "
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Lucky ISPP participants, anyone wants to share some of the science you are living?
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The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin
go.nature.com/45X3Imr
go.nature.com/45X3Imr
AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.
go.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin
go.nature.com/45X3Imr
go.nature.com/45X3Imr
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky a novel Bradyrhizobium species from a diatome can cross boundaries and induce nodules in a legume! Exciting!
#microsky a novel Bradyrhizobium species from a diatome can cross boundaries and induce nodules in a legume! Exciting!
A Bradyrhizobium isolate from a marine diatom induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in a terrestrial legume - Nature Microbiology
A non-cyanobacterial diazotroph previously isolated from a marine eukaryotic phytoplankton triggers formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules when inoculated onto a terrestrial legume.
www.nature.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky a novel Bradyrhizobium species from a diatome can cross boundaries and induce nodules in a legume! Exciting!
#microsky a novel Bradyrhizobium species from a diatome can cross boundaries and induce nodules in a legume! Exciting!
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How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
Good luck Mathilde & co
Check out the first preprint from our lab describing a direct molecular cross-talk between (p)ppGpp and c-di-GMP nucleotide messengers! Great work from first-author Corentin Jaboulay who was a postdoc in our lab, and great collaborations! @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Cross-regulation of (p)ppGpp and c-di-GMP pathways controls a cell-cycle transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671821v1
August 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Good luck Mathilde & co
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Welcome to Thalassoporum mexicanum 🇲🇽 and Tumidithrix helvetica 🇨🇭, two Cyanobacteriota species 🦠 successfully characterized by @aniketsaraf.bsky.social et al.
#phylogenetics #genomics #taxonomy
@pasteur.fr @microbiologysociety.org
research.pasteur.fr/en/b/18sC
dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006869
#phylogenetics #genomics #taxonomy
@pasteur.fr @microbiologysociety.org
research.pasteur.fr/en/b/18sC
dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006869
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Welcome to Thalassoporum mexicanum 🇲🇽 and Tumidithrix helvetica 🇨🇭, two Cyanobacteriota species 🦠 successfully characterized by @aniketsaraf.bsky.social et al.
#phylogenetics #genomics #taxonomy
@pasteur.fr @microbiologysociety.org
research.pasteur.fr/en/b/18sC
dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006869
#phylogenetics #genomics #taxonomy
@pasteur.fr @microbiologysociety.org
research.pasteur.fr/en/b/18sC
dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006869
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Reposted by Amel Latifi
Cette année encore, les étudiants ont subi une augmentation de leurs dépenses, notamment des loyers ou des frais d’inscription. Le tout sans augmentation des bourses, contrairement aux promesses du gouvernement, dénonce l’Unef dans une étude publiée le 14 août.
Par @faizazer.bsky.social
Par @faizazer.bsky.social
Coût de la vie étudiante : « Tous les signaux sont au rouge », alerte l’UNEF
Cette année encore, les étudiants ont subi une augmentation de leurs dépenses, notamment des loyers ou des frais d’inscription. Le tout sans augmentation des bourses, contrairement aux promesses du gouvernement, dénonce l’Unef dans une étude publiée le 14 août.
l.mediapart.fr
August 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Cette année encore, les étudiants ont subi une augmentation de leurs dépenses, notamment des loyers ou des frais d’inscription. Le tout sans augmentation des bourses, contrairement aux promesses du gouvernement, dénonce l’Unef dans une étude publiée le 14 août.
Par @faizazer.bsky.social
Par @faizazer.bsky.social
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How do cyanobacteria glide in sync? 🌀
New research on Fluctiforma draycotensis shows that filament movement relies on tightly coordinated cellular forces, and when that coordination breaks down, the filaments twist and buckle.
buff.ly/Q4l6w5y
New research on Fluctiforma draycotensis shows that filament movement relies on tightly coordinated cellular forces, and when that coordination breaks down, the filaments twist and buckle.
buff.ly/Q4l6w5y
August 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
How do cyanobacteria glide in sync? 🌀
New research on Fluctiforma draycotensis shows that filament movement relies on tightly coordinated cellular forces, and when that coordination breaks down, the filaments twist and buckle.
buff.ly/Q4l6w5y
New research on Fluctiforma draycotensis shows that filament movement relies on tightly coordinated cellular forces, and when that coordination breaks down, the filaments twist and buckle.
buff.ly/Q4l6w5y
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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
Ça sonne le glas de la réaction. Cette école est merveilleuse, et il va falloir la défendre.
Ça fait toujours bizarre quand les dirigeants écrivent enfin ce qu'ils pensent vraiment depuis le début.
✍️ «L’université, cette grande école de la classe moyenne» : le lapsus révélateur du parti Renaissance
Pour le philosophe et chercheur Philippe Huneman, cette phrase, présente dans le projet du parti présidentiel, entérine sans scrupules la reproduction sociale.
Tribune 👇
Pour le philosophe et chercheur Philippe Huneman, cette phrase, présente dans le projet du parti présidentiel, entérine sans scrupules la reproduction sociale.
Tribune 👇
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ça sonne le glas de la réaction. Cette école est merveilleuse, et il va falloir la défendre.