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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · 26d

Jumping on those the next two weeks 😉

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Soon at @spirochrome.com
Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

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Kristina Prokina @kristina-prokina.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper is out! We have studied the cute tiny Discocelia plataet sp. n. to obtain the first molecular data of the order Discocelida and clarify its cell structure. All this for a better understanding of the evolution of Cercozoa.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?

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

Video by Vittorio Boscaro.

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 22

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more?

2 more days to apply!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology

🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠

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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are you interested to give expansion microscopy a try in your favorite organism(s)?
Shoot us a message!
www.dudinlab.com/you-want-to-...

Research

www.dudinlab.com

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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · Aug 22

There was even some time to expand with many labmembers - although some cells were incredibly hard to find! Thanks @nicolecoots.bsky.social for spending hours looking for them and @ambonacolta.bsky.social for providing large samples that could not be missed!
#UExM #expandeverything #protistsonsky

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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Two weeks at @ubcbotany.bsky.social are coming to an end, marking the 2nd trip for our @moorefound.bsky.social project @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & T. Richards.
Thanks for hosting @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, @fburki.bsky.social and most importantly Denis Tikhonenkov & Vittorio!

Nicole, Anthony, and myself looking at expanded fireworm samples - not staged at all

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Aug 7

Join our crazy beautiful project of ExM Atlas !
One more position to fill, this time for a Research Technician at @embl.org in @gautamdey.bsky.social lab.

Come have fun with us !.

Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

With @dudinlab.bsky.social
@embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

With @dudinlab.bsky.social
@embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

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Camilla Autorino @cami-autorino.bsky.social · Jul 31

Happy to share that I defended my PhD this week!
✨✨It has been an amazing adventure full of learning, great science and incredible people here at @embl.org!✨✨
Looking forward to the next steps in my scientific journey
🔬🐟💛
If you haven't yet, check the preprint of my PhD research: bit.ly/45eBxOg

EMBL DB unit @embldbunit.bsky.social · Jul 30

🎓Congratulations to Camilla Autorino, from the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org who has just defended her PhD thesis titled 'A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics in the zebrafish embryo' #DevelopmentalBiology

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Such a pleasure to be co-organising the #Latsis Symposium this year with Guillermina !

Thanks to all the speakers & sponsors.

And all our teams members who helped make this a reality.

It just felt right.

#Science #WildCells #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Biophysics #Behaviour

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Florian Wollweber @florianwollweber.bsky.social · Jun 27

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber
We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis
First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Jenna Elliott @jennaelliott.bsky.social · Jun 18

🧵 🧪 1/ Hi! I’m excited to share our latest work, now on arXiv:

Repulsive particle interactions at cellular interfaces enable selective information processing (arxiv.org/abs/2506.14739)

Where we explore how the physical properties of living systems can help cells process spatial information.

Sketch of membrane-enclosed compartment with particles on its surface, which interact with an adjacent structure

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
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