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EMBL DB unit @embldbunit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

✨ At this week DB unit seminar @embl.org, Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group @floravincent.bsky.social presented his work on phytoplankton symbiosis #diatoms #symbyosis #marinebiology #DevBio

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Exactly 10 yrs after defending my PhD with @taraoceans-science.bsky.social here we are with the lab celebrating 10 yrs of Tara enabled science at home in @embl.org surrounded by some of my scientific heroes and legends in the field. Scientific community is everything🌊 #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 01/09/2026

What a way to start #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries! ⛵️🌊 We’re live from EMBL Heidelberg, where scientific organiser Chris Bowler has opened the first edition of the meeting, followed by a keynote lecture from Éric Karsenti. We’re excited for what’s ahead this week!

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy to welcome Ines Fournon as a member in the lab to continue exploring wild and wonderful phytoplankton interactions together with @dudinlab.bsky.social @inesfournon.bsky.social 🥳

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hard to think the EMBO/EMBL symposium on the cellular mechanics of #symbiosis is already over @embl.org. Some personal scientific heroes in there, and a very unique collegial and open minded vibe (and great dancers💃🏻 ) #EESSymbiosis Wonderful way to reconnect with science after 🐣! #womeninscience

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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

As emerging models gain traction during this uncertain funding landscape, the need for sustainable and scalable approaches is pressing. Our effort to implement accessible genetics in choanoflagellates and share our strategy is now out. We hope the community finds this helpful and invite feedback.

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em-hoc.bsky.social @em-hoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protists #microbiome

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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

People working with #protists and #fungi might be interested to hear that we in this study sequenced 13.4 mio. eukaryotic rRNA operons from 450 representative samples. #ProtistsOnSky #Metabarcoding

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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

seems that protists were way ahead of us with the invention of the circular economy 😊 great to hear of 'holobionts' again 👍 #SymnioSky #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One more week to apply to this PhD position on working out an endosymbiosis relationship in a protist. Please share widely to prospective PhD student #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The cold water tintinnid ciliate Parafavella elegans & some diatoms from the Chukchi Sea last summer- almost the end of the Arctic samples....

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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A couple of days left to submit your abstract for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Symbiosis ! Great line up of speakers :) #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

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Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This work shines because of @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social passion for these cells. She built it all—the cultures, transcriptomes, analyses, modeling and collaborations—from scratch. I can’t begin to express how brilliant and hard-working a scientist she is (and she's 👀 for postdocs!). So proud of her 🥲

Photographs of Zhejing "Maggie" Xu, an extraordinary gifted, hard-working, and brilliant grad student who is as comfortable at the bench or IDE as she is in the field. Truly an amazing individual whose passion for suctorian, protists, and cell biology more generally is in a class all its own

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Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Wow! Remarkably complete story on the logic of phenotypic plasticity in a predatory protist - congrats @cellraiser.bsky.social et al!

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It is a collaboration between my lab (Uppsala U) and the labs of @dudinlab.bsky.social (Geneva U) and @filiphusnik.bsky.social (OIST). More info and how to apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... (The use of AI for writing the motivation letter is discouraged and will be regarded unfavourably) 2/2

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The Department of Organismal Biology teaches and explores the evolution, development and function on the organismal level. For more information see Department of Organismal Biology - Uppsala Universit

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

In French - Virginie on Swiss radio! 🎙️ She talks about our latest collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social #UExM #ProtistsOnSky

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Had a fun two weeks in Heidelberg visiting in the @floravincent.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs! Expanding diatoms and their evil little parasites was peak Halloween vibes 🎃 @embl.org #ExM #diatoms

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EMBL DB unit @embldbunit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Soraya Zwahlen, a PhD student in the Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social group @embl.org, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week. She discussed a cell-ecosystem approach to studying marine microbial interactions under pollutant stress. #MarineMicrobiology #MicrobialInteractions

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

They are architects of the sea, engineers of the air—capturing carbon, atom by atom. While you breathe, they build. While you sleep, they safeguard our climate. #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky Illustrations by Rosie Sheward

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

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The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#ProtistsOnSky the elephant in the (protist)room...

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !

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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

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EMBL @embl.org · 01/09/2025

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! bit.ly/47mmiFF

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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Partnership between #algae & #bacteria reveals secrets of evolution phys.org/news/2025-08... Stepwise genome #evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing symbioses www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social, @mehrshmali.bsky.social, et al.

photo of a string of algal cells and the same string under fluorescence microscopy showing glowing blobs inside each cell

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

#protistsonsky Direct link to the Chaetoceros Quick Guide if you want to learn more :) @sorayazwahlen.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A small piece with PhD student @sorayazwahlen.bsky.social and Wiebe Kooistra on why we think Chaetoceros is an emerging model system for phytoplankton research, ranging from its ecological role, to unique cellular features and - of course - its many symbiotic interactions in the marine microbiome.

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Building the next generation of kick-ass women in marine science, one expedition at a time. #mesocosm @embl.org

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding #protists #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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fischerlab.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Last week, we started to collect samples from high-altitude Alpine lakes for the ERC-funded #CAPSOLUTION project! Throughout July and August, we will study the diversity of #viruses, #bacteria, and #protists in these extreme environments. #HorizonEU @erc.europa.eu @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

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fischerlab.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Our home base for the first week was Lake Gossenköllesee at 2416 m elevation. The research station (Univ. of Innsbruck) sheltered us during an unexpected snowstorm in July. See pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33436089 for viruses from this lake! #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Advanced sampling conditions for @lqueiss.bsky.social @drjmpetersen.bsky.social

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EMBL @embl.org · 27/06/2025

On #OceansDay2025, EMBL’s Science Education and Public Engagement (SEPE) Team joined forces with the German-American Institute (DAI) to bring the underwater world closer to families in Heidelberg. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

Oceans Day participants being led in an activity by Sally Hall, Science Education and Public Engagement Officer at EMBL. Credit: ©Regina Imatdinova

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So good to reconnect with the adrenaline of field work. My guilty pleasure as a PI is to keep this happening to make sure you never go too far from the initial Pasión. Mesocosm experiments simulating impact of marine heat waves on marine microbial interactions in Vigo. @embl.org #UnivVigo

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Such a pleasure to be co-organising the #Latsis Symposium this year with Guillermina ! Thanks to all the speakers & sponsors. And all our teams members who helped make this a reality. It just felt right. #Science #WildCells #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Biophysics #Behaviour

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EMBL @embl.org · 02/07/2025

The Marine Research Centre (CIM) at the University of Vigo, Spain, and EMBL join forces to study how to curb red tides and anticipate the effects of marine heatwaves. The CELLBLOOM project will advance scientific understanding of current global changes in the ocean. www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

Collage showing EMBL and CIM’s collaborative marine research in action. Top left: two researchers on a boat deploying a water sampling net into the sea. Center left: close-up of the net capturing water. Center right: the EMBL mobile laboratory truck parked outside the CIM building. Bottom row: interior of a mobile lab with scientists analyzing samples and conducting experiments in a well-equipped workspace.

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A huge thx to @vibtrainconf.bsky.social for this #MLD8 full of diatom geeks. Such a beautiful community & really phenomenal science. @serenaflori.bsky.social could present her latest preprint & I updated the diatom folks on how we make Chaetoceros a good model for phytoplankton symbiosis research !

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VIB Training & Conferences @vibtrainconf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

#MLD8 is underway in sunny Ghent! Kicked off with exciting breakthroughs in diatom biology and new tools for molecular studies. Great to reconnect and dive into cell biology, ecophysiology, genomics & biotech. Tiny but mighty! 🌊 #DiatomResearch #BlueBiotech Find out more: vibbio.tech/4kRX2L7

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A new day starts at #MLD8 in Ghent 🐑🐑

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