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Jacob Pawley 🧽 🦠 🦕 @pawley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A fully updated preprint is now live on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social :) “Look and see” was a rather important line of thinking regarding freshwater sponge-microbe interactions, centering on the importance of spatial dynamics when evaluating animal microbiomes 🧽🦠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Graphical abstract depicting a proposed model of microbial colonization of the skeletal matrix of the freshwater sponge, E. muelleri, during periods of dormancy. This graphic highlights that an epithelium physically separates the host mesohyl from the microbial communities residing within this host-derived external matrix.

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Armando Rubio Ramos @bioarm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not everyday a friend is able to define a new organelle!!! If you like membrane compartimentalization and are interested in how cells responde to stress in membrane tension, check this out!👇👇 Congrats to Elda and co!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Discovery of an adhesion GPCR regulating mating in choanoflagellates, by Alain Garcia de las Bayonas & Nicole King. Absolutely stunning work - choano cell biology is going next level www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Periklis Paganos @perievodevo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The paper from my postdoc days @mblscience.bsky.social and @zakswartz.bsky.social Lab is available in @natcomms.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... With Beverly Naigles, @carsten-wolff.bsky.social and @danivoronov.bsky.social

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Roy Zang @cellulo-evo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Very excited to see our preprint on the monoaminergic signaling system in sponges (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...) featured by @qedscience.bsky.social. This highlights the importance of studying early-branching animals to piece together how the first animal cell types communicated with each other.

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An ancient monoaminergic signaling system coordinates contractility in a nerveless sponge

Chemical neurotransmission was a key animal innovation, enabling multicellular coordination of physiology and locomotion. Sponges are early-diverging animals that lack neurons and muscles, yet still c...

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Roy Zang @cellulo-evo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

How do #sponges coordinate their bodies despite lacking neurons and true muscles? We show that sponges use monoamines to control water flow in their canals — reminiscent of how adrenaline regulates blood vessels. My PhD story, now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Evolution

Evolution of monoamine reception and its role in cellular contractility.

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