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ESRF @esrf.fr · 8h

The ESRF congratulates the winners of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on metal–organic frameworks!

Among them is Prof. Yaghi, with whom the ESRF proudly collaborated on a study featured as an ESRF Highlight in 2023 on high-porosity #MOF glasses.

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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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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jul 15

🦠 Looking forward to start mesocosm round 2 🎉🤩.. Cellbloom #embl #trec #diatoms #universidaddevigo #ecimat
Pics credit @nikoleisch

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jun 24

Continuing the Conference tour 2025 with #MLD8 #diatoms show with cryo-exm 🦠

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jun 20

Leaving the beautiful Leiden after a great workshop @lorentzcenter.bsky.social
on #Photosynthesis and #Temperatureextremes in a #ChangingWorld 🦠🌱🔥🧊 Inspiring talks and people! The right crowd to share our new preprint on cryo-ExM
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Look at those #DIATOMS

LOOK AT THESE #Microtubules

Congrats to the team

Long-live #UExM #Expansion #Microscopy

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 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Jun 17

Beautiful expansion microscopy of diatoms. Check out those cool #CO2 - fixing pyrenoids! The interesting shapes are likely formed by the #PyShell around the Rubisco. Congrats @serenaflori.bsky.social @floravincent.bsky.social and the whole @embltrec.bsky.social plankton team! 🧪🌾🌍🔬

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 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

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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 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Jun 17

Special kudos to 1rst authors @serenaflori.bsky.social @fmikus.bsky.social @eliottflaum.bsky.social, @embl.org EMCF facilities, @yschwab.bsky.social, @embltrec.bsky.social for the TREC samples & of course unique ExM gourous, collaborators and friends @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social

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EMBLtrec @embltrec.bsky.social · Apr 30

The Arctic is threatened by global heating and pollution: @taraoceans-science.bsky.social polar station will both lock into ice and float on water to support researchers in understanding these threats. TREC's Thomas Haize attended the vessel's inauguration in Lorient and shared these great pics!

Inside the Tara Polar Station cabin looking out over ocean in France

A view of the Tara Polar Station sitting in Lorient harbour

A picture of the Tara Polar Station from the outside as it sits in Lorient harbour

A picture of TREC's Thomas Haize in front of the Tara Polar Station in Lorient harbour

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Apr 25

Surfing the thylakoids...🤩 🌊🤙

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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · Apr 22

POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Apr 14

@embl.org crew at @embo.org workshop on #EMBOClimateResilience
After a day of intense talks, now comes the active brainstorming part to actually come up with concrete steps forward to create more bonds between cell biology and planetary science.

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Apr 1

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🤩

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Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢Excited to share TWO ERC-funded postdoc positions!🧪Are you passionate about molecular mechanisms and marine microbial interactions?🌊🔬Join us in dissecting antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions, by the sea! tiny.cc/xlfe001 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social Please msg to hear more!

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Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Mar 17

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jan 29

EMBL seminar ✔️.. Now back to my happy place 🥼🔬⚗️🧪

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jan 21

Only single cell sequencing could reveal if it was really a nazi salute

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Nov 29

Thanks to all our amazing collaborators in Japan🇯🇵 (Ginga, Yusuke, Aki, Genji), UK🇬🇧 (Onyou, Sabina, @jnb-lab.bsky.social, Luke) & France🇫🇷 (@serenaflori.bsky.social, Giovanni). And huge congrats to Manon Demulder!👩‍🔬💪

Here's a beautiful #NotTheCover of diatoms on a grid by Martin Oeggerli #SciArt🧪🎨 7/🧵

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Nov 29

Weatherwatch: Diatoms, the masters of capturing carbon www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

Weatherwatch: Diatoms, the masters of capturing carbon

Miniscule algae are one of the world’s most powerful resources for removing CO2, according to research paper

www.theguardian.com

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Nov 28

Congratulations🎉🎉🎉

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Nov 13

What a wave🌊.. Uncensured
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · Nov 12

BSCB Women in #CellBiology prize 🧪
Deadline extended (15th Nov)
The deal: UK-based scientist, running lab for < 7 years with 1+ senior author publication.
Do you know someone who should be nominated? Maybe it's you?
Details (a bit out of date): bscb.org/competitions...

Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal | British Society for Cell Biology

bscb.org

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.vibconferences.be/events/molec...

Molecular Life of Diatoms 8

22-26 June 2025, Ghent, Belgium

www.vibconferences.be

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Serena Flori @serenaflori.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What Kamala Harris’s historic bid for the US presidency means for science

The daughter of a scientist and a supporter of diversity in STEM, Harris as a potential candidate has stirred optimism among scientists. The daughter of a scientist and a supporter of diversity in STE...

www.nature.com

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