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Matteo Pivato

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Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow | @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social 🦠🔬 Assistant Features Editor | The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social 🌱📝 #Chlamydomonas #microalgae #signalling #photosynthesis #calcium #microscopy

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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Unlike us, unicellular red algae activate sexual reproduction under stress: a pH drop triggers sexual life cycle, boosting survival odds in harsh conditions. New work in @theplantcell.bsky.social shows this in three Cyanidiophyceae genera, and builds a full genetic toolkit for them. In Brief here🌱👇🏻
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The hidden life of unicellular red algae: discovery of a common sexual cycle unlocks a model lineage for eukaryotic evolution
Matteo Pivato; The hidden life of unicellular red algae: discovery of a common sexual cycle unlocks a model lineage for eukaryotic evolution, The Plant Cel
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A 10 °C shift and you leave the coat at home. Easy. For a green alga, the same shift rewires one-third of all genes, alters motility, mating efficiency, and carbon metabolism. New In Brief with Barbara Bourgade in @theplantcell.bsky.social about the amazing work of Prateek Shetty and colleagues🦠🌡️
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Moderate temperature shifts elicit large-scale changes in the physiology and behavior of a green microalga
Barbara Bourgade, Matteo Pivato; Moderate temperature shifts elicit large-scale changes in the physiology and behavior of a green microalga, The Plant Cell
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Big news for 2026! 🚀 Honored to receive a @humboldt-foundation.de Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. I’ll be joining Prof. Ralph Bock’s team at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam to study the molecular basis of cell-to-cell signaling in Chlamydomonas🦠 Can’t wait to dive into this new project!🔬
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Humboldt Research Fellowship
Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with above-average qualifications from across the globe.
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Out now my first “In Brief” for @theplantcell.bsky.social, highlighting amazing new work from Holzner and colleagues @kunzlab.bsky.social. A long-needed characterization of the chloroplast ionome in model plants, together with new genetic strategies to manipulate it, has finally seen the light! 🌱🔬
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Chloroplast ionome characterization provides new avenues to shape organellar iron homeostasis
Matteo Pivato; Chloroplast ionome characterization provides new avenues to shape organellar iron homeostasis, The Plant Cell, , koag027, https://doi.org/10
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Super excited to share that I’ve joined @theplantcell.bsky.social as an Assistant Feature Editor! I’ll be writing “In Brief” highlights, receiving editor and peer-review training, and helping share amazing plant science with a wider audience, all with a fantastic community of editors and authors 🌱🦠🔬
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The Plant Cell welcomes 2026 Assistant Features Editors
The Plant Cell is pleased to announce our Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) for 2026 (Fig. 1). The Plant Cell AFE program provides AFEs with experience in
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Glen Wheeler @glwheeler2.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Exciting SWBio PhD opportunity to study cell signalling in marine diatoms during heat stress. Deadline 3rd December 2025 @swbiodtp.bsky.social @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Honored to have received the “Franca Rasi Caldogno” Award 2025 from the Italian Society of Plant Biology (SIBV) for the best PhD thesis, today at the XIV SIBV congress in Palermo🇮🇹🌱 Endless thanks to the society for this recognition and to all the people involved in this PhD journey🙏🏻🦠🔬
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Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social
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Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms
Diatoms exert reciprocal, fine-scale control of P acquisition by N availability, depending on the immediate needs of the cell.
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Out now in @pubs.acs.org our latest work on the production of the high valuable molecule geraniol from a genetically engineered green alga strain. Happy to have contributed to this amazing project, a collaboration with the Bielefeld University and KAUST. Have a look at it! 🦠🔬
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Sustainable Production of Bio-Based Geraniol: Heterologous Expression of Early Terpenoid Pathway Enzymes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Geraniol is a monoterpene alcohol with a rose-like aroma, used in food and cosmetics and for its anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and insect-repellent properties. Geraniol is commonly chemically synt...
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Interested to know what happens C. reinhardtii cells upon overexpression of a cyanobacterial dual-function FBP/SBPase? Check out our latest work, out now in Algal Research!! 🦠🔬🇮🇹
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Heterologous expression of the cyanobacterial fructose-1,6−/sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii causes increased cell size and biomass productivity in mixotrophic conditions
The Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle is the metabolic pathway responsible for CO₂ assimilation in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. Two key rate-lim…
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
Large group of diverse scientists and researchers gathered outside a modern building for a New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium.
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
What a great week at the @newphyt.bsky.social Next Generation Scientists meeting #NGS2025 in Birmingham!! 🌱🇬🇧 Honored to have presented a poster on our latest work on abiotic stress-induced calcium dynamics in C. reinhardtii 🦠🔬 Great science, fruitful panel discussions and a lot of new friends!!
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Matteo Pivato @matteopivato.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Wandering what happens to Chlamydomonas chloroplast and cytosolic Ca2+ dynamics in response to different abiotic stresses? Our latest work about that is out now! 🦠🔬 A big thank to all the people involved @labcosta.bsky.social, Glen Wheeler and Matteo Ballottari.
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Abiotic Stress‐Induced Chloroplast and Cytosolic Ca2+ Dynamics in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Ca2+ signalling has a key role in the perception of environmental stimuli and cellular responses to stresses. Here we show that Ca2+ transients in Chlamydomonas are differently triggered by abiotic s...
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