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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New preprint alert! 🦠🔬 We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga. Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Yoshi Ichikawa @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our paper on dynein-2's track recognition mechanism is now published in The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org!! Cryo-ET and MD simulations reveal that dynein-2 is tuned for binding to the A-tubule of the ciliary doublet | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Cryo-ET and MD simulations reveal that dynein-2 is tuned for binding to the A-tubule of the ciliary doublet | The EMBO Journal

imageimageDynein-2 is a motor protein essential for retrograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) on the A-tubule of ciliary doublet microtubules. Here, biochemical and cryo-ET analyses demonstrate that d...

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Excited to share that I've joined EABIAS (East Asia Bioimage Analysts’ Society) following the recent GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025! Happy to be part of this community. よろしくお願いします＆請多指教！ eabias.org/about/

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Safely back in Hokkaido! Had a wonderful time at #GloBIAS2025 in Kobe. The atmosphere of mutual support was fantastic! Huge thanks to everyone who interacted with me! (Our university mascot, Muropyon, enjoyed the beautiful Kobe night view too! 🌃) #GloBIAS

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Going to Kobe for GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025! A bit at a loss what to wear, as we're already using the heater here in Muroran, Hokkaido.🥶 #GloBIAS

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Reposting our microPublication now indexed in PubMed: We analyzed the movement of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas using #DeepLabCut, a deep learning-based tracking tool originally developed for animal behavior studies. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40331205/ Original videos: 🧵 #protistsonsky

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Revealing Rotational Characteristics of the Uniflagellate Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through DeepLabCut-Based Autotracking - PubMed

Tracking eukaryotic flagella and cilia often requires manual clicking, even in the age of digital imaging. We developed an autotracking method using DeepLabCut, a CNN-based, marker-less tracking tool ...

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Spring in northern Japan🌸

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our analysis of the rotational movement of Chlamydomonas uniflagellar mutant using #DeepLabCut has just been published in microPublication Biology! micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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Revealing Rotational Characteristics of the Uniflagellate Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through DeepLabCut-Based Autotracking | microPublication

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our analysis of the rotational movement of Chlamydomonas uniflagellar mutant using #DeepLabCut has just been published in microPublication Biology! micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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Revealing Rotational Characteristics of the Uniflagellate Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through DeepLabCut-Based Autotracking | microPublication

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Swathi @swath1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Oxygen gradients shape E. coli motility patterns as they run away from O2! - 😍

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Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Asked similar question before but I try again. Anyone knows proteins that localize like this? This protein is present in diplonemids/bodonids/euglenids/Naegleria, which have two flagella, but not in trypanosomatids that have just one flagellum. Potentially interesting for flagella/cilia community?

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dynein-2 is tuned for the A-tubule of the ciliary doublet through tubulin tyrosination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It’s interesting that all versions of Alphafold distort large extended proteins to ‘globularise’ them. It’s fine for people that understand those helices are ‘bent’ but for non experts it’s confusing. 🫤 🤔 It happens a lot and isn’t well discussed in the community.

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青山剛@室蘭市長 @aoyama-muroran.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

【青山たけしSNS】いつもSNSをチェックいただきありがとうございます Xでの発信をメインとしてますが Instagramも 2000名近くの方に閲覧いただく（Xとは若干内容が異なります） Threadsに加えて新たに Bluesky bsky.app/profile/aoyama… をはじめました今後も室蘭の情報発信を続けます

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Yoshi Ichikawa @ichikawa-lab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Proud to be part of this paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using high-speed AFM, we have visualized the real-time translocation of substrate polypeptide by the single molecule of SecYEG-SecA!!! Please check this amazing video taken by high-speed AFM!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year from the northside of Japan🌅🎍❄️

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

New Year decorations at our lab🎍

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Did you know #diatoms are motile? These tiny glass cells have no cilia or flagella and a rigid body yet can glide on surfaces using a specialised slit in the cell wall called the raphe! What is the functional morphology of the raphe? All revealed in our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Micah Dunthorn @micahdunthorn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025 #protist #protistsonsky protistologists.org/programs/fun...

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Funding - International Society of Protistologists

Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President. Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel […]

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🍾Our small #UExM adventure is only starting! #ProtistsOnSky We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE @embl.org LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi... 1/4

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

📢 Please re-share! New Preprint Alert -- in collaboration w/ @prannoysuraneni.bsky.social @coralprof.bsky.social and others @univmiami.bsky.social @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social FlumeX: A Modular Flume Design for Laboratory-Based Marine Fluid-Substrate Studies @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

FlumeX: A Modular Flume Design for Laboratory-Based Marine Fluid-Substrate Studies

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turingpattern @turingpattern.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

12月1日から、国立遺伝学研究所の所長として赴任しました近藤滋です。日本の基礎科学を盛り上げるために、精一杯働く所存です。皆さん、ご協力をお願いいたします。所長挨拶： www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/about... 学生へのメッセージ： www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/phd-p... どちらも、楽しく読んでいただけるように書きました。特に、学生へのメッセージの方ができが良いので、まずそちらからお読みいただけますと幸いです。

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所長挨拶 | 国立遺伝学研究所

遺伝学の中核拠点として生命システムの解明を目指す先端研究を進めています。また、生命科学の基盤となる研究事業を展開しています。これらの活動により、共同利用・共同研究を推進しています。総合研究大学院大学生命科学研究科遺伝学専攻を併設し、優秀な研究者を世に送り出しています。

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hey researchers (especially non-native speakers of English), do you use generative AI to write papers? If so, how do you (or how should we) acknowledge it? I haven't, but am thinking how to write next one.

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Better late than never #alphafold3 (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cytoplasmic dynein 1b heavy chain from Phytozome)

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arratiapaulo.bsky.social @arratiapaulo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Bacterial rheotaxis is ENHANCED in non-Newtonian fluids! This work is in collaboration with Arnold Mathijssen and Albane Thery. Read more about our experiments and simulations in our new PNAS manuscript at pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @sorheology.bsky.social @pnas.org

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I made a (quite incomplete) starter pack of Japanese or in-Japan researchers. Self-identify, and I will add you! 日本人/日本にいる研究者のスターターパックを作りました。リプしていただければ追加します！ go.bsky.app/7kMz86x

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I thought I had a picture of Ginkgo in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden of the University of Tokyo, but actually it was "精子発見のソテツ" (cycad from which sperm were discovered). April 2024

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Mitosis in a green alga. The cell grows until it is tetralogy, then divides twice to form 4 new haploid cells. This is one of my study algae, Oophila amblystomatis, a symbiotic green alga. #protistsonsky #protistaday

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sperm packet of the colonial volvocine green alga, Pleodorina starrii Check: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #fluorescenceFriday

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As a new PI (had a lab in this summer), I'm also wondering: in what case to post arXiv/bioRxiv and in what case not to? Probably different between biology/physics and theory/simulation/experiment...🤔

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Was trying to obtain #bioRxiv information and automatically write into Discord using #Python . Want a Raspberry Pi to run regularly. Keyword extraction by Spacy does not always work... #pyladies

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Pattern formation of microalgae (cyanobacteria?) in Onuma Quasi-national Park, Nanae, Hokkaido, Japan. Early November 2024

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What ChatGPT thinks of Chlamydomonas

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Winter is coming in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Awarded a grant from the Ohsumi Frontier Science Foundation✨✨ Photo: Muropyon, the official character of Muroran Institute of Technology & a book entitled "Basic Scientist" by Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi, the 2016 Nobel Laureate and the Foundation President, and Dr. Kazuhiro Nagata

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

クラミドモナスが集まってもボルボックスにはなりません！

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