Phillip Cleves
@pcleves.bsky.social
Symbiosis, cell and developmental biology, and corals.
Principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution - Department of Embryology & Johns Hopkins University
Principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution - Department of Embryology & Johns Hopkins University
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New #GENETICS report from @pcleves.bsky.social et al. shows the use of a simple electroporation protocol to introduce various genetic constructs into Aiptasia zygotes, a small sea anemone and an emerging model to study coral biology. buff.ly/5aQpQ1S
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New #GENETICS report from @pcleves.bsky.social et al. shows the use of a simple electroporation protocol to introduce various genetic constructs into Aiptasia zygotes, a small sea anemone and an emerging model to study coral biology. buff.ly/5aQpQ1S
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The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.)
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
December 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.)
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Beautiful work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone
Epithelia likely predate the last common animal ancestor, yet the evolutionary origin and environmental regulation of epithelial remodelling remain poorly understood. Here, we show that extensive, sta...
www.biorxiv.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Beautiful work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper from the lab. Molecular characterization of the symbiont-containing organelle with proteomics and reverse genetics in Aiptasia and coral.
We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New paper from the lab. Molecular characterization of the symbiont-containing organelle with proteomics and reverse genetics in Aiptasia and coral.
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Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
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Before today, I would have never known it was possible to run DNA extractions and PCR without a lab. Who knew that a molecular bio bento box could facilitate bringing the lab into the field? I’m very excited to see how our hornwort Cyanobacteria community sequencing turns out later this week.
August 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Before today, I would have never known it was possible to run DNA extractions and PCR without a lab. Who knew that a molecular bio bento box could facilitate bringing the lab into the field? I’m very excited to see how our hornwort Cyanobacteria community sequencing turns out later this week.
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We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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A paper in Nature reports the discovery of fossilized claw prints thought to belong to an amniote on a slab of rock from Australia dated to about 356 million years ago, suggesting that the origin of amniotes is earlier than expected. go.nature.com/4jm5XTP #Paleosky 🧪
May 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A paper in Nature reports the discovery of fossilized claw prints thought to belong to an amniote on a slab of rock from Australia dated to about 356 million years ago, suggesting that the origin of amniotes is earlier than expected. go.nature.com/4jm5XTP #Paleosky 🧪
It is happening again! Consider taking our course on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis at
@MBLScience. We extended the deadline for
applications to Apr 14, 2025. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
@MBLScience. We extended the deadline for
applications to Apr 14, 2025. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis | Marine Biological Laboratory
This is an immersive research-based course designed to teach basic concepts, open research questions, and facilitate state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research.
www.mbl.edu
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It is happening again! Consider taking our course on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis at
@MBLScience. We extended the deadline for
applications to Apr 14, 2025. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
@MBLScience. We extended the deadline for
applications to Apr 14, 2025. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
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It’s live! Check out the Cleves Lab website and learn how the lab uses ecologically relevant cnidarian models to gain key insights into how microbial symbiosis and its breakdown impact animal biology and health, driving new coral conservation efforts. 🪸🎉
@pcleves.bsky.social
www.cleveslab.org
@pcleves.bsky.social
www.cleveslab.org
The Cleves Lab
The Cleves Lab researches the molecular, cellular, and developmental basis of how intracellular beneficial microbes invade and persist in animal cells to form symbiosis. They use ecologically critical...
www.cleveslab.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s live! Check out the Cleves Lab website and learn how the lab uses ecologically relevant cnidarian models to gain key insights into how microbial symbiosis and its breakdown impact animal biology and health, driving new coral conservation efforts. 🪸🎉
@pcleves.bsky.social
www.cleveslab.org
@pcleves.bsky.social
www.cleveslab.org
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Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
February 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
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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...
We're advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship open to UK & International applicants!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Neural crest of Xenopus embryos labelled with nuclear GFP
December 11, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Neural crest of Xenopus embryos labelled with nuclear GFP
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Lets put this back in the feed and see if there is anyone else who who'd like to be added.
We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe.
go.bsky.app/RnHK313
We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe.
go.bsky.app/RnHK313
December 6, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Lets put this back in the feed and see if there is anyone else who who'd like to be added.
We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe.
go.bsky.app/RnHK313
We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe.
go.bsky.app/RnHK313
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A video we made at @mbarinews.bsky.social explaining some functions of #fluorescence in the ocean, and how #bioluminescence is different… but related.
🦑🧪🌊
m.youtube.com/watch?v=whbe...
🦑🧪🌊
m.youtube.com/watch?v=whbe...
The allure of fluorescence in the ocean
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 PM
A video we made at @mbarinews.bsky.social explaining some functions of #fluorescence in the ocean, and how #bioluminescence is different… but related.
🦑🧪🌊
m.youtube.com/watch?v=whbe...
🦑🧪🌊
m.youtube.com/watch?v=whbe...
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I'm pumped to finally share our lab's first publication!
Microbiology and cancer are deeply intertwined, and this is our first foray into the cancer field. We asked: how do bacteria activate innate immunity in tumors to elicit anti-cancer responses?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microbiology and cancer are deeply intertwined, and this is our first foray into the cancer field. We asked: how do bacteria activate innate immunity in tumors to elicit anti-cancer responses?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cytosolic bacterial pathogens activate TLR pathways in tumors that synergistically enhance STING agonist cancer therapies
Intracellular bacterial pathogens are distinctive tools for fighting cancer, as they can proliferate in tumors and deliver therapeutic payloads to the…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:31 PM
I'm pumped to finally share our lab's first publication!
Microbiology and cancer are deeply intertwined, and this is our first foray into the cancer field. We asked: how do bacteria activate innate immunity in tumors to elicit anti-cancer responses?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microbiology and cancer are deeply intertwined, and this is our first foray into the cancer field. We asked: how do bacteria activate innate immunity in tumors to elicit anti-cancer responses?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵
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Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait...
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait...
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
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🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:48 PM
🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Phillip Cleves
Reposted by Phillip Cleves
I still love this figure. Submitting revisions this week. SNPs in transcription factor binding sites (green) explain the majority of additive genetic variation for >70% of ~150 phenotypes (rows) in maize. See Alt for detailed figure legend. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more!
November 12, 2024 at 5:42 AM
I still love this figure. Submitting revisions this week. SNPs in transcription factor binding sites (green) explain the majority of additive genetic variation for >70% of ~150 phenotypes (rows) in maize. See Alt for detailed figure legend. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more!
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Excited to announce that our 2025 Advanced Research Training Course schedule is up and applications are open! 🎉🎉🎉
See you in Woods Hole! mbl.edu/courses
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See you in Woods Hole! mbl.edu/courses
🧪🐙🦑🧠🐟
November 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM