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Valentine Thomas

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Passionnate about microscopy and sharing science @PintofScience.ch

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb... #WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 03/12/2025
New work by @valthomas.bsky.social et al. in @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social provides a live, 8-nm precision map of the actin fusion focus for cell-cell fusion in S. #pombe. This reveals #actin aster formation by #myosin Myo52-driven transport of the formin Fus1 nucleator rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Boris Sieber @borissieber.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction! Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Schematic of MAPK signalling in fission yeast, budding yeast and Metazoa. No MAPK scaffold was known for ERK-like MAPK in fission yeast, as opposed to budding yeast Ste5 and metazoan KSR1/2.
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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Depicting the drifting world for some now #UNOC #protistsonsky
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends. We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June. This is your last chance of joining us this summer. #Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy
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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology! RNA biology Epigenetic regulation Cell cycle regulation Cancer, immunology Virology Application and information ⬇️ application.igmm.cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
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Association of Postdoc at University of Geneva @apdu-unige.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Show us your creativity and the beauty of Science 😙🥰 Send us your scientific image for the Image contest that we will do in the Postdoc Day :) There will be amazing prizes! #FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday #ScientificArt #SciArt
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 23/05/2025
😎Thank you for joining Pint of Science Switzerland 2025! We'd love to hear your feedback so we can make future events even better. This form only takes 4 minutes to complete. 🎁 If you’d like to enter the national prize draw for some festival goodies, leave your email at the end! ➡️ bit.ly/pint25
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Carlos Moreno-Yruela @carlosmyruela.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Pint of Science was again a great success in Lausanne, with >500 people attending our events! Kudos to co-coordinators @miriamlisci.bsky.social and @juliensluneau.bsky.social, and to the fantastic team of 19 volunteers at the bars 🥳! #PINT25 #scicomm
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you need to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course to support your #cellbio research but don't have funding, check out our JCS–FocalPlane Training Grants. 🔬🖥️https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/
Microscopy Training Grants
Supporting microscopy training for early-career researchers in cell biology
Apply for a grant of up to £1,000
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Journal of Cell Science logo and FocalPlane logo
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 20/05/2025
You shouldn't be dissapointed (yet).⚡️Pint of Science is in full force across Switzerland (and the world) 🧠We’re diving into Day 2 with more exciting talks. 🎟️All events are FREE and no registration needed. 🔗Check the program in your city 🌐pintofscience.ch and see you tonight! @pintsworld.bsky.social
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Miriam Lisci @miriamlisci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Get ready for a night full of surprises in Lausanne! With talks in both EN and FR, and topics ranging from AI & privacy, viruses and green revolution, your thirst for science in a fun and relaxed setting will be satisfied starting tonight! Time: 7-9pm Locations: Cylure, Sidewalk, On va où #Pint25
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[Figure 1. A.] @figure1a.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
12 days left to submit your art for our competition! Remember, it can fit this year’s theme or not. Artist’s choice! We are looking forward to build another great exhibition with you. #sciart #sciartcommunity
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 
Imaging Cell Dynamics
Date: 11 – 14 May 2026
Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain
Register your interest
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This #FluorescenceFriday became a #SynapticSaturday 😁. I'm checking the expression of different neuronal proteins in the primate neocortex.4 markers below: SMI32🟡 for the large pyramidal neurons, calbindin, a calcium-binding protein in 🟣, Neun for neuron nuclei in 🟢. Dapi 🔵 for nuclei of all cells.
Confocal microscopy photo of the neocortex - nonhuman primate tissue
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 15/05/2025
🧓 Longevity Unlocked: Perspectives of Healthy Aging🦠 🗓Tuesday, May 20 – 7 PM 🇬🇧 📍 Sidewalk Café, Place du Tunnel 9, Lausanne 🎟️FREE ENTRY ➡️https://pintofscience.ch/event/longevity-unlocked-perspectives-of-healthy-aging @pintsworld.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #Pint25 #pintCH
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Saravanan Palani @syncellbiolab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social in collaboration with Sudarshan and Deepak Nair. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Can Turing and Ising models explain lizard skin color patterns—and be reconciled? 🦎📐 We bridge microscopic cell interactions & macroscopic scale patterns across evolutionary divergent lizards. 👉 www.lanevol.org/news/article... #EvoDevo #TuringPatterns #IsingModel #MathematicalBiology
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 14/05/2025
📍I-PUB - Bd Carl-Vogt 20, Geneva 🗓Tuesday, May 20 – 6.30PM 🇬🇧 🔬 Seeing the invisible 🎟️FREE ENTRY ➡️https://pintofscience.ch/event/seeing-the-invisible-from-organelles-to-atoms @pintsworld.bsky.social #unigeneve #Pint25 #pintCH @centriolelab.bsky.social
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 12/05/2025
Deadline for the #BiozentrumPhDFellowships Summer Call: May 18, 2025 Don’t miss your chance — submit your application now and start your scientific journey @biozentrum.unibas.ch! 👉 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4caiqqX
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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Check out exciting protist research in JEM! Holly Moeller et al. explore the feeding habits of Mesodinium rubrum and provide a tool for studying its cell biology and photophysiology in their open access paper in our March/April issue! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky
The marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum (bottom right) is famed for its ability to steal chloroplasts and nuclei from red cryptophyte algae in the Teleaulax/Gemingera clade. But even these prey specialists can make "mistakes," ingesting blue-green Hemiselmis pacifica (upper left) and transiently retaining their plastids. Here, a M. rubrum cell points its feeding tentacles (labeled with an anti-centrin antibody, yellow) at an H. pacifica cell. The cryptophyte's flagella and ciliate's cilia (labeled with an anti-tubulin antibody, purple) and nuclei (labeled with DAPI, blue) are visible in this expansion micrograph taken with a Nikon spinning disk confocal microscope. Numerous stolen prey nuclei are visible inside of the M. rubrum cell. See Moeller et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13066
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 10/05/2025
Carburante vivo, AI che parlano local e gatti di Schrödinger, Pint of Science in LUGANO 📍 Bar Oops Lugano, Via Carlo Maderno 24 pintofscience.ch/event/carbur... @pintsworld.bsky.social @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social #pintCH #Pint25
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
How do neurons know their final position in the brain? They use a combination of chemical signals & physical guidance by radial glia 🟡. My favorite cell type in the brain is also temporary! After cortical development, most will transform into astrocytes. Nuclei of cells in🔵 #SciArt #Microscopy
Confocal microscope photo
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 07/05/2025
🚀 Mysteries of the Universe 🗓️ 20 May 2025 | 18:30 doors open and 19:00 start of the talks 📍 O bolles Restaurant - Bern, Bollwerk 35 👉 pintofscience.ch/event/myster... @michellegalloway.bsky.social #pintCH #Pint25
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 07/05/2025
We're hiring! The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) seeks Scientific Editor or Senior Scientific Editor, dependent on experience. Join our team in New York City! Apply here 👉 careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs?keyword... #STEMjobs #LifeScienceJobs #PublishingJobs #ScienceJobs
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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The lab is on a roll. 2nd preprint in as many weeks! High levels of Cdc42 GTPase underlie an all-or-none decision to fuse. Great team effort led by PhD students @sajjitasaha.bsky.social and @aiswaryasajeevan.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @biology-unige.bsky.social
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High levels of Cdc42 GTPase underlie an all-or-none decision to fuse
Cdc42 is a Rho-family GTPase conserved across eukaryotes, where it plays essential roles in cell polarization. In single-celled yeast systems, Cdc42 is a key driver of symmetry breaking and polarized ...
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 01/05/2025
3 nights, 2 venues, 2 languages, 9 speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in ST. GALLEN. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/st-gallen Free entry! 🧠 @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25 #pintCH 💖 #scienceforeveryone
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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New lab preprint! High resolution mapping of the actin fusion focus reveals myosin V-dependent transport of formin for actin aster compaction. A very cool work led by @valthomas.bsky.social and nice collaboration with Andrea Picco and @kaksonen.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Schematics of the actin fusion focus
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 27/04/2025
3 nights, 3 venues, 2 languages, 27 (!) speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in LAUSANNE. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/lausanne Free entry 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge! @pintsworld.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #pint25 #pintCH
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 28/04/2025
3 nights, 3 venues, 2 languages, 18 speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in BASEL. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/basel No registration, no tickets 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge! @pintsworld.bsky.social @unibas.ch #pint25 #pintCH 💖 #scienceforeveryone
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 28/04/2025
3 nights, 4 venues, 28 speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in ZÜRICH. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/zurich No registration, no tickets 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge! @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25 #pintCH 💖 #scienceforeveryone @ethzurich.bsky.social
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Dr. Carolina Reyes @alpinewaves.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We have an upcoming Pint of Science event showcasing exciting research at different bars in Zurich to the general public. May 19-21. 🎙🔬♻️⚗️👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #pintofscience #research #science #community #innovation #knowledge
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
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EMBO @embo.org · 22/04/2025
Learn about the origins and #evolution of #multicellularity at EMBO Workshop "Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life" in Barcelona, ES, 9–11 Oct Abstract submission by 1 June Registration by 20 July meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #EMBOmulticellularity #EMBOevents 🧪
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Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life
The study of the origins and evolution of multicellularity in different lineages has recently captured the attention of many research groups and is fueling the generation of numerous innovative resea…
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Armando Rubio Ramos @bioarm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Being part of the Pint of Science Geneva team is an absolute blast! 🚀 We’re working hard (and having a little fun too 😁) to bring amazing science talks this 19-21th May. 📌SAVE THE DATE: 19-21 May 2025 🧬 #Science #PintofScience #Geneva pintofscience.ch @pintofscience.ch @marinebrunet.bsky.social
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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🐍 New in Genome Biology! We show #CLCN2 is key to #colorpatterns in corn #snakes. LTR-retrotransposon mutation drives Stripe phenotype. Genomic & transcriptomic analyses reveal insights into trait diversification! Full study: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake - Genome Biology
Background Snakes exhibit a broad variety of adaptive colors and color patterns, generated by the spatial arrangement of chromatophores, but little is known of the mechanisms responsible for these spe...
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 19/03/2025
🔜The countdown is ON! 🚀 In just 2️⃣ months, the Pint of Science Festival 2025 will take over 1️⃣2️⃣ cities across Switzerland—and the world! 🔬📅 From May 19-21, passionate scientists will bring their cutting-edge research to your favorite local spots—it's going to be epic! 💡✨ @pintsworld.bsky.social
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Social Media Volunteers Needed! Developmental Biology is building a social media team (Bluesky X LinkedIn Insta )😎 If you're a passionate developmental biologist & interested in working with other social media enthusiasts for DB, apply today!😆 Deadline Apr 30 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Developmental Biology is building a social media team! Apply before April 30th!
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[Figure 1. A.] @figure1a.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Submissions are open 🎉 Head to figure1a.org/submissions before the end of May to submit your artworks. We are very excited to build this year’s exhibition with you. #sciart
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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 31/03/2025
Say hello to Martina Busetto, Miki Adderley & Kunal Soni 😇 the powerhouse trio bringing Pint of Science to life in Baden! 📌 SAVE THE DATE: 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🧠 Pint of Science Switzerland Festival 🇨🇭 Come quench your thirst for knowledge! 🌐pintofscience.ch #scicomm #ScienceRocks #pintCH #MeetTheTeam
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Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📢 #Yeast2025 News! Registration and abstract submission are NOW OPEN! Join us at the 32nd ICYGMB 📅 Save the Date: 21-24 July 2025 📍 Location: Paris @sorbonne-universite.fr 🔗 Submit: premc.org/yeast2025/su... 🕒 Register now to take advantage of the Early Bird fee premc.org/yeast2025/re...
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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🔬 Are you interested in fluorescence microscopy of fungal pathogens/pathogenesis? Mycology Bioimaging Intiaitive @mrccmm.bsky.social is thrillied to announce it's first workshop in CapeTown for #African scientists (w/AfricaMicroscopyInitiative) Please disseminate! forms.office.com/e/gcpvytvyuz
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A pair of COS cells, one in interphase and one in mitosis for #FluorescenceFriday. Tricky 4-channel overlay made possible by @kwolbachia.bsky.social LUTs! Microtubules 🟣 vimentin 🟢 mitochondria 🟠 clathrin 🔵, deconvolved Apotome.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It's the last #FluorescenceFriday of the year! Here is a retrospective of my favorite moments! 😁 The images below are displayed at the SAC Science Museum. Read my interview here :) shorturl.at/Tk88q 😊 Do you have a favorite one? #Microscopy 🧠🔬
Image 1: 3D reconstruction showing SARS-CoV-2 invading the brain.Dying neurons in the Alzheimer hippocampusRadial glia in Brain DevelopmentSpooky brain - showing the hippocampus and LGN
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Eishi Noguchi @enog.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Lake Pleasant, AZ #SilentSunday Gorgeous sunset 😊 #Nature #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Wildlife #Sunset #Arizona #Desert #MentalHealth #Mindfulness
A burning red sky over a lake at dusk. The lake also reflects the red sky.
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Chiara Sinigaglia @chisinig.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What better way to start posting on Bluesky than by announcing that we are recruiting a postdoc! The project, funded by an HFSP grant, focuses on the role of the ECM in Clytia jellyfish regeneration. Initial appointment will be for 2 years. Learn more here: lnkd.in/eU6dVptj [Photo: A.Jan/LBDV]
Clytia hemisphaerica - medusa stage
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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
End-of-year read! The work of Melvin Bérard in the @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org. Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal that TORC1 is reactivated by pheromone signaling during sexual reproduction in fission yeast doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I just want to #welcome all the new members with a beautiful multinucleated #Ichthyosporean just before undergoing #cellularization to form a transient #multicellular stage. Imaged using #Expansion #Microscopy ( #UExM ) Species: Sphaeroforma arctica Blue: Nuclei Magenta: Tubulin
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