This is absolutely gorgeous work from @helenfoster.bsky.social, @margotriggi.bsky.social, @gaiapigino.bsky.social and colleagues 🤩
#Chlamy cilia never cease to amaze!
Nice #OpenScience contribution by @arcadiascience.com
Demo/proof of concept using #Chlamy colony analysis 👇🏼
Notes:
1️⃣ #Chlamydomonas algae here — not to be confused with #Chlamydia bacterium
2️⃣ #Raman spectroscopy — not to be confused with #ramen cuisine 🍜
A street in the old town of Münster, Germany on a clear day of August 2025.
Myself presenting a talk titled “Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii at the Chlamy Meeting, Münster, Germany, August 2025.
A little personal background: back in August 2025 I attended my first "full" (aka not-only-structural) biology conference: the #Chlamy Meeting in lovely Münster 💚
And there I found an amazing community around this cute little unicellular alga - I was mindblown by how much we can learn from it!
https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.03.692059
Plz check out our preprint in which we investigate the role of KEA1 in #chlamy, a monoplastid algae. KO mutant vs WT comparison across the green linage reveals conserved but also novel insights in part linked to the mono plastid bottleneck. Thx to many terrific collabs 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Thanks @amunts.bsky.social. This was a fun session at the #Chlamy meeting. The next generation of #TeamTomo is taking off! 🚀🧪
We are excited to share 71,700 new #Chlamy mutants from the CLiP2 collection pre-publication! Nearly-saturating genome coverage.
Please note: new background strain, mating type, and antibiotic resistance.
Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Search and order: www.chlamylibrary.org
...and for our younger visitors, we had fun hands-on activities. Finger painting with #Chlamy🖐️🦠 and potting small terrariums in reused jars🫙🌱. Both to take home and watch grow🌞
Let's hop in the time machine⏲️🚀. As PhD students in @WallaceUcsf's lab, @LudingtonWill and I used TIRF microscopy to watch IFT trains race along #cilia.
Since then, my group has wandered all over #Chlamy cells. Now with this study, I feel like we're coming full circle🔁.
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Very grateful and excited to announce that we have been awarded an @HFSP grant with @photosyn_Adam and @DoranBennett to explore the acclimation of #Chlamy thylakoid membranes🌱 to changing light⛅️☀️. NPQ, State Transitions, Photoinhibition, Repair! Really looking forward to this!
Gonium RB gene causes colonial multicellularity in #Chlamy
Launch Party! Pls drop by & say hi. The spanking new http://www.quarmby.ca is live.
#chlamy #banffscience
@philippejones tweet this am with #chlamy did not go through to the QuarmbyLab feed. Hmmm.....
#chlamy science PhD students are the stars - www.nature.com/news/2011/110916/full/ne...
@philippejones The excitement is building as launch of the new Quarmby lab website approaches #chlamy