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Yasin Dagdas

@plantophagy.bsky.social
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Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website

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Diz-Muñoz Lab @diz-lab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We built a fully functional LegoAFM for imaging! 🤩... Today presented at #TürenAuf Tag der #SendungMitDerMaus! ... Remember: Always be curious! ⁉️
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two weeks to go! Please share with suitable candidates!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week we held our second-ever “train the trainer” event in Heidelberg at EMBO/EMBL to pass on our teachings on the creative scientific process to 50 instructors. We're on our way to achieving our mission of bringing creativity training to all scientists worldwide!
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Manon Demulder @manondemulder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you’ve always been curious about how algae fix carbon, @phaips.vd.st, @cellarchlab.com and I have put together the quickest route into pyrenoids. And if you don’t feel like reading at all, we have an accompanying poster doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#plantsci Assistant Professor position in Canada🇨🇦 www.academicwork.ca/jobs/tenure-... Heard from a colleague that it is a very supportive department!
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Plant Biology
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Eirik Lågeide @eiriklag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very excited to share the first preprint from my PhD with the community! This is also the first paper from the Plant Immunogenomics group with @galofir.bsky.social, so stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n 🧵
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NO VEIN is an ancestral immunity protein involved in plant-virus interaction
The conservation of immune systems from prokaryotes to eukaryotes can guide discovery of immunity genes across the tree of life. Most studies to date have focused on metazoan systems, while the extent...
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Marc Knight Lab @marcknightcalcium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excited to share that I’m joining IPB from 1st November in Professor Tina Romeis’ department! I’m proud to join this august institution and fantastic scientific community. Huge thanks to Tina and everyone at IPB for the warm welcome. Looking forward to being your colleague! @ipbhalle.bsky.social
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hao Huang, one of the few participants #EMBOUbiquitin from China talking on TRIM28 & RNA decay
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ben Haworth is sharing his PhD work on RNA Pol-II quantity and quality control #EMBOUbiquitin
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Philipp Radler @radler92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first paper of my PostDoc in Christa Schlepers group (@archaea-vienna.bsky.social) on the dynamics of Asgard archaea is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a great team effort and I am looking forward to uncover the complex behavior of these cells further!
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Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea - Nature
Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...
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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sharon Kaisari from Pagano lab is sharing her ongoing work on cell cycle and DUBs with a lot of twists on the way #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@jnpruneda.bsky.social is showing us their latest cool results on ubiquitin signaling & human pathogens-what’s still out there if we think putsife the eukaryotic box?!? #EMBOUbiquitin
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Next, @nidabasturk.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is exploring endosymbiotic gene transfer across photosynthetic eukaryotes, from Archaeplastida and secondary algae to Paulinella. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@rashmiagrata.bsky.social coming all the way from Australia to share her ongoing uber cool work on DUBs #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alex Whiteley is introducing ubiquilins-shuttles to the proteasome #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@maxseidel.bsky.social from @embl.org is showing his really cool postdoc work on the ubiquitin code of translation #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Franklin Zhong is sharing a new story on ribotoxic stress response and inflammation; starts by reminding us that skin is a very large organ and it’s a great model for immune system #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are starting the day with Petra Beli, talking on ubiquitin signaling during translation #EMBOUbiquitin
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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next, @derenbuyuktas.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social lab is sharing her latest insights on Hornwort Abiotic Stress Responses and their Evolutionary Link to Cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have a lab website! cellmig.org Now fully hosted on GitHub. If you check it out, let me know what you think!
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Cell Migration Lab – We study cell migration in health and disease
The Cell Migration Lab in Turku studies cell migration, cancer–vascular interactions and filopodia using microscopy and quantitative image analysis.
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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New preprint from Dodonova lab 🔔! Capturing multiple states by cryo-EM❄️, we show for the first time how archaeal RNA Polymerase engages a nucleosome and forms direct contacts with histones! 🧬 Great work by Gabriele & a fantastic collaboration with Dina Grohmann! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am pleased to receive the AAB President medal !! Thanks to the amazing people that nominated me and to @blackinplantsci.bsky.social for giving me a pathway to give back to the whole Plant Science community by contributing to the important call for diversity and inclusion #happy
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Claudio Joazeiro, one of the co-organisers of #EMBOUbiquitin is sharing their latest findings on Ribosome Associated Quality Control
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Koustav Ray from Winklhofer lab is presenting a new story on linear ubiquitin #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zuzana Hodakova is talking on “orphan” protein subunits, a widespread quality control problem. #EMBOUbiquitin
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Update on: "Unravelling Cell Evolution and the Tree of Life, the Essence of Biodiversity: The Scientific Autobiography of Thomas Cavalier-Smith FRS, FRSC" I added a comprehensive bibliography of the works of Tom Cavalier-Smith as .odt and .bib file, the latter can be used to manage refs […]
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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV
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Bentham Lab — Durham University
Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Debora Trentini cont’ing the ribosome theme, talking on Ribosome-Associated Quality Control & why it’s linked to various diseases #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#UFMylation takes centre stage #EMBOUbiquitin T. Inada presenting a new story with a lot of cool data!!!
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@annebertolotti.bsky.social is now talking on “integrated stress response” from bench to clinic to bench again! We don’t need boundaries between fundamental and translational studies. They are both needed and feed each other!
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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This story in @natcellbio.nature.com by the amazing @mathilda95.bsky.social is the final flourish in a series of papers over the last year during which we reported a solution to the lipid imaging problem in biology. Stay tuned for the next chapters!
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thibault Mayor is now talking on cytosolic proteostasis surveillance #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely loving Mathias Peter’s talk-a giant in the field presenting the science as a progress report, emphasising limitations, alternative explanations #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#EMBOUbiquitin starting with the keynote talk of Mathias Peter summarising an amazing journey of #ubiquitin and friends
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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An exciting milestone for the Bayin lab! Our first PhD thesis submitted! Congratulations @jensbager.bsky.social 🍾🍾 #proudPI 😍 Part of Jens’ PhD work can be found in our latest publication. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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A conserved differentiation programme facilitates inhibitory neuron production in the developing mouse and human cerebellum
Summary: Single cell RNA-sequencing establishes core components of the gene regulatory network that drive Nestin-expressing progenitor to inhibitory neuron differentiation in the developing mouse and ...
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Non-models are the new models! Congrats to the team
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now @dikiclab.bsky.social (in collaboration w/ Bhogaraju lab) talking on cilium quality control #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan Shao is talking on organelle quality control, how membrane proteins are handled in different compartments #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fully caffeinated & ready for @simonapolo.bsky.social talk on ubiquitin signaling in P-bodies #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fadia Boudhgene-Stambouli is presenting her PhD work (her first international meeting!!!) on how pH regulated protein degradation #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itay Koren is bringing organelle-organelle crosstalk to the table, what happens to membrane proteins when they are mislocalized!?! #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
T. Hoppe from @unicologne.bsky.social telling us how metabolism controls ubiquitin dependent protein degradation
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
H. Meyer is starting the afternoon session with lysosomal damage and ubiquitin signalling #EMBOUbiquitin
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@rosabarrio1.bsky.social is now talking on E3 ligases specificity & challenges in finding substrates #EMBOUbiquitin
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Ian Kelsall @iankelsall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@prithadg.bsky.social
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cordula Enenkel is cont’ing the #proteasome theme but talking on how they are stored #EMBOUbiquitin
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