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Francesco Ferraro

@francescoferraro.bsky.social
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Cell biologist - Golgi enthusiast - I follow the Golgi ribbon through deep time. Working at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Fact are facts, but opinions are my own

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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
That time of the year again. The @szndohrn.bsky.social 2026 call for the Open University-SZN PhD program is open. 5 projects available (one of which is in my lab). Application deadline is the May 21st. Link to the call: www.szn.it/index.php/it... and the flyer of the project in my lab
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi first described what we now call the Golgi apparatus - a structure so striking and unusual that it took more than 50 years for scientists to accept it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Celebrate the cell’s most iconic and best organelle.
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RossellaAnnunziata @rossellaannunziata.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms? Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers! To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...
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Arnone Lab @arnonelab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile. Deadline JUNE 14th! www.szn.it/index.php/it...
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Children and families are dying of starvation if they survive the bombing. Yet still many hesitate to publicly criticise what is happening in Gaza
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
PhD opportunity at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples ‪@szndohrn.bsky.social‬.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Tour de force by Barna Lab
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A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level
Millions of ribosomes are packed within mammalian cells, yet we lack tools to visualize them in toto and characterize their subcellular composition. In this study, we present ribosome expansion micros...
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Had a wonderful day at the Stazione Zoologica @szndohrn.bsky.social presenting our latest findings on the "Origins of neurons and nervous systems." Thank you @francescoferraro.bsky.social & Ina Arnone for the invitation. #choanoflagellates #sponges #ctenophores
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Great work by Joel Dacks & Cathy Jackson! Arf GTPases, key to eukaryotic organelle dynamics, trace their origins to prokaryotic ArfR GTPases in Asgardarchaeota. Structural and phylogenetic evidence reveals a link to eukaryogenesis and early endomembrane evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Asgard archaeal origins of Arf family GTPases involved in eukaryotic organelle dynamics - Nature Microbiology
Eukaryotic Arf family proteins involved in endomembrane organelle dynamics arose from the Asgard archaeal ArfR GTPases, indicating this capability likely originated in the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
That the Golgi does more than secretion is an emerging theme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of RAD51C between the Golgi and nucleus regulates homologous recombination and genomic stability
Intra-organelle communication is essential for cellular homeostasis, but the coordination between nuclear processes and cytoplasmic compartments remains poorly understood. Here, we uncover a novel spa...
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#Multicellularity enthusiasts! Mark your calendars! EMBO Workshop on "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life" 📅 October 9-11, 2025, Barcelona 🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102 @csic.es @embopress.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKj...
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EMBO meeting
YouTube video by Multicellgenome Lab
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Global organelle profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale
Organelle proteomics defines the cellular landscape of protein localization and highlights the role of subcellular remodeling in driving responses to perturbations such as viral infections.
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Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What a story! www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...
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How Bad Luck & Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize
The discoverer of a gene for a glowing protein 
was driving a van for a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues 
had won science's greatest honor.
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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Gaza University publishes a call for volunteers to teach remotely. All of Gazas twelve universities have been destroyed or badly damaged through Israeli air strikes or controlled demolitions www.facebook.com/share/p/19f8...
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Redirecting...
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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Season’s Greetings from PhyloPic! www.phylopic.org/collections/...
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Silhouette Image Collection - PhyloPic
A collection of silhouette images from PhyloPic.
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Spatially barcoding biochemical reactions using DNA nanostructures unveil a major contact mechanism in proximity labeling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This one is for the holiday season
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Claudio Bussi @claudiobussi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Direct Intercellular Vesicle Exchange between Adjacent Cells
Intercellular communication plays a central role in the development and integrity of multicellular organisms. Vesicle transfer, especially through extracellular space, has recently been highlighted as...
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Laboratory of Chemical and Biological Probes @locbp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just out on bioRxiv, Carla Miró reports the first quantitative determination of the redox state of glutathione in the Golgi apparatus. Spoiler alert: it is very oxidized and in relatively low concentrations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Characterization of the Glutathione Redox State in the Golgi Apparatus
Redox homeostasis is crucial for cell function, and, in eukaryotic cells, studying it in a compartmentalized way is essential due to the redox variations between different organelles. The redox state ...
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Helen Zenner @helenzsci.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
***Help needed*** I’m making a list of ongoing webinar series in #cellbio, please help me find others that I’m missing! So far, I have: - Membrane trafficking - Intermediate filaments - Mito Talks/Chats - Motors in quarantine - Fragile nucleosome - Mito911 Webinar Series
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wow!
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. This Consensus View lays out guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Com...
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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 24/11/2024
I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible! #proteomics #bioinformatics
biology.arizona.edu
Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
When you get lucky in your field of view
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 22/11/2024
A few more letters... and we can finally write amino acid sequence with protein structure encoded by amino acid sequence? 🧬🤔😀 @chrisfrank662.bsky.social , Dominik Schiwietz, Lara Fuss, Hendrik Dietz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My first post on BS is for #FluorescenceFriday 🔬 Here is a 3D reconstruction of a sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) blastopore gastrula expressing two Golgi reporters (medial-Golgi green; trans-Golgi magenta). 0-90 degree rotation
GalT_mCherry (magenta) 
mEGFP_Giantin-C-terminus
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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Scalable cell-free production of active T7 RNA polymerase by the Jewett lab doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Scalable cell-free production of active T7 RNA polymerase
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for biomanufacturing paradigms that are robust and fast. Here, we demonstrate the rapid process development and scalable cell-free production of T7 ...
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Yunha Hwang @microyunha.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello 🦋 #protein / #microbio / #BioML community! We are excited to release Gaia🌎, a context-aware protein search tool, extending protein search and discovery capabilities beyond sequence and structure, to include *genomic context*. Search your favorite protein sequences with on gaia.tatta.bio
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...
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Plant Biology Exploratory Research Microgrant | Experiment
For Science!
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Jacob Smith @jacobsmithsci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🧪 hopefully now this enters the science feed 😊
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I added a lot of new people, so it's worth having a second (or nth) look ⬇️ If you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓
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Francesco Ferraro @francescoferraro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
go.bsky.app/MtgJE4w
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Fena Ochs @fenaochs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hi Bluesky! I made a 3D chromatin starter pack. Let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/6tTQdqQ
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
#NOTtheCover #ProtistsOnSky Unfortunately, we didn't make the cover @natureportfolio.bsky.social . I still think our proposition deserves sharing. Enjoy the read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Abstracts are due in one month for Biologists @ 100, a unique conference to celebrate our 100-year anniversary and bring together our different communities. We hope you can join us. Abstract deadline is 13 December. Submit yours at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/abstracts/ #biologists100
Conference announcement
Join us in Liverpool to celebrate our 100th anniversary
Biologists @ 100
24 - 27 March 2025, ACC Liverpool, UK 
biologists.com/100-years/conference 
Register now Abstract deadline: 13 December 2024
#biologists100
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