These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
Please join us tomorrow morning (9 AM CEST) to hear about Rocío Mozo Muñoz's work on the phylogenomics of Symbiodiniaceae (from the lab of @fonamental.bsky.social)
#protistsonsky
I've always been fascinated by #regeneration;
& I have to say, my friend @canaztekin.bsky.social & his team always deliver…
If anything, I feel like he’s on track to find a way to grow two extra hands to pipette while simultanously writing grants.
Congrats
🧬 Last call to join us in Cambridge for #EMBOMBoA26 (July 6th-10th)!
We are just one week away from the registration and abstract submission deadline for the EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea!
I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.
I always think I got used to it. Until I hear that silence again and the variable geometry...
Yes. Thats the used rehtoric... "they are all terrorists, and the kids will grow to become ones"...
There are clear parallels. Obviously
You are just jealous you havent been at the scope in a while.
Already on it.
Do you see the actin network taking shape... its in white... all over...
#Expansion #Microscopy hits again. This time you are seeing the #Ichthyosporean #Sphaeroforma arctica pre #Celluarization. #UExM factor ~x250 billion. Imaged with dark field Microscopy.
Happy Easter
Our preprint list highlighting new tools and techniques in imaging is now up on FocalPlane. Check it out, and let us know if we are missing any research that we should add to the list.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/03/m...
Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte
Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Such a pleasure to spend the day with everyone at @fmiscience.bsky.social today.
Thx for having me.
Today we hosted the inaugural Friedrich Miescher Lecture with Omaya Dudin, recipient of this year’s Friedrich Miescher Prize, which we're proud to sponsor. He delivered a fascinating talk on the evolution of multicellularity, with exciting insights into expansion microscopy 🦠🔬 @dudinlab.bsky.social
Ohhhh Ingrid !!! I supervised her when she was a master student !!!! Amazing.
Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯
Last one a month ago, I woke up 3 times at night cuz I felt I was at 300°C... do it summer, and the whole planets temperature will rise by 10°C
Plot twist ? Keep me posted ? No fondue in summer - stating the obvious
Yeah, i think i'm almost there.
Lets get a drink when I reach you !
May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is the lorica only protein now or what ?
Green is NHS i suppose ?
Mating fission yeast cells expressing Myo52-GFP (green), Cdc42-mCherrySW (Magenta) and mTagBFP2 expressed in P-cells (cyan). The cells fail to fuse, as shown by the cyan fusion marker confined to one of cell compartment. Image credit: Sajjita Saha.
Polarized growth in #Spombe needs Cdc42, but what role does it play in cell fusion? @sajjitasaha.bsky.social @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social &co show that mitotic polarized growth responds linearly to Cdc42 levels, but mating involves a sharp switch-like response @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4bvGIhb
🤩 Another amazing example of U-ExM actin staining with HAK-actin by @dudinlab.bsky.social et. al.
Haha ! Never too late.!
But yeah HAK is there.
