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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 8d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · 13d

Check out the work our lab’s photosynthesis brain
@wojwie.bsky.social
and @lorenzlamm.bsky.social who created the AI pipeline that made this possible

Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 13d

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on!

#TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 13d

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on!

#TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 15d

I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 18d

A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

eLife @elife.bsky.social · 18d

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
buff.ly/j3TSIkn

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 18d

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
buff.ly/j3TSIkn

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Vasil Gaisin @vasilgaisin.bsky.social · Aug 12

We found a new #ecological factor in #microbial mats: the #bacterial contractile injection system. Using #cryoET, #metagenomics, & quantitative #immunoTEM, we studied this feature directly in natural populations of bacterial #cells.

Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out 🧐 our new preprint 📜:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota

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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out 🧐 our new preprint 📜:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Aug 5

#protistsonsky
Direct link to the Chaetoceros Quick Guide if you want to learn more :)
@sorayazwahlen.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our first DinoSphere seminar is this Tuesday, 1 July at 9 AM CEST! A good way to start the day if you're in Europe ☕

We will hear from Yong Heng Phua (OIST) and Karel Mocaer (Heidelberg)
🔗 Zoom link on our website: tinyurl.com/4duvwtvp

DinoSphere - Online talks

Video credits: Liz Cooney

tinyurl.com

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 26

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Jun 19

Woo! Very excited to share our collaborative work on the centriole's Luminal Distal Ring ⭕. This project started 13 years ago with @hugovdhoek.bsky.social & @stearnslab.bsky.social, and then beautifully came together with @computingcaitie.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social.
#TeamTomo #UExM 🧪🧶🧬🔬

Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 New preprint!
Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social · Jun 18

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org

careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

careers.peopleclick.com

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Jürgen Strassert @strassert.bsky.social · Jun 13

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Felix Mikus @fmikus.bsky.social · Jun 12

First stop of our @moorefound.bsky.social endeavour - @bic-wur.bsky.social. Sjoerd is keeping me busy with a bunch of species and we are busy fixing and plunge freezing them for the best possible #UExM results
#makeitbigger #50shadesofgreen
@dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
@Tom Richards

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

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

Omaya Dudin

Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

www.cell.com

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Jun 4

What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.

Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 4

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)

📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj

Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 4

#ProtistsOnSky

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 4

We’re building a collaborative space for early-career researchers working at the intersection of dinoflagellate taxonomy& molecular biology.
🔗 Learn more: sites.google.com/view/dinosph... 💬 Got questions or input? Please reach out and let us know.
Hope to see you there!

DinoSphere

Welcome

sites.google.com

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · Jun 4

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)

📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj

Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends.

We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June.

This is your last chance of joining us this summer.

#Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Mar 28

With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.

LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · May 30

Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · May 22

Really proud to have had a small contribution to this work. Shane Farrell and Doug Rasher led the way showing that climate change can cause feedback effects that may make it difficult to restore ecosystems. In this case kelp is inhibited by red algae that replaces it

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

Cover of science magazine illustrating a kelp forest in the Gulf of Maine with a fish looking out from within the kelp. The cover is associated with a study on effects of climate change on kelp forests.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt6788

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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · May 7

On their journey to fix tomography @phaips.vd.st and @florentwaltz.bsky.social made a great website👨‍🔧👨‍🔧!

If you want to check out our lab’s tomo-pipeline please have a look and share!

Philippe Van der Stappen @phaips.vd.st · May 6

Hey #TeamTomo,
Ever been in need of a tutorial about the fundamentals of cryo-electron tomography? From preprocessing raw frames to high-res subtomogram averaging?
That's why @florentwaltz.bsky.social and I made this website!

tomoguide.github.io

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#CryoET #CryoEM 🔬🧪

Welcome to TomoGuide

A step-by-step Cryo-ET guide

tomoguide.github.io

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Lorenz Lamm @lorenzlamm.bsky.social · Apr 25

🦠🧠 MemBrain update! 🧠🦠
We’ve updated our preprint! It now covers the full MemBrain v2 pipeline for end-to-end membrane analysis in #CryoET: segmentation, particle picking, and spatial statistics.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
🔗 Code: github.com/CellArchLab/...
🧵(1/6) #TeamTomo

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