Our latest paper: "Evolution of genome fragility enables microbial division of labor" has been published in @MolSystBiol. A great team effort with @RenskeVroomans, @bramvandijk88, @roeland_merks and Danny Rozen. 🧵

There is ONE WEEK left to apply for the #PlantScience #PhD position in my lab! This will use the latest #microscopy, #biosensor and #ecophysiology techniques!

🔬 Exciting new resource for #protists lovers! 🌍🧬🦠 We are obsessed with trying to get the unknown lineages closely related to animals. Very obsessed! So, we created the eKOI database to expand the power of metabarcoding to COI, with a special focus on protists & integrated in PR2. Lead @ruben_miguens with the collaboration of @beaplab_ibe @fonamental & Vaulot. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

🌟 Exciting news for all #Multicellularity enthusiasts! 🌱🧬🦠 Mark your calendars, and pre-register, for the EMBO Workshop: "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life" 📅 October 9-11, 2025 📍 Barcelona 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Organized by @victoriashabard @MartonaAlvarez @koryu_kin Guifré Torruella & Aurora Nedelcu ✨ Fantastic line-up of speakers – more info coming soon! 🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102 📽️ Watch the teaser below! @IBE_Barcelona @CSICCat @the_prbb @EMBO

🚨 Our last talk of the term is TODAY at 16:00UK 🚨 Join at cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86460755… with passcode TLMNobuto4.

🚨 Tomorrow, 04/12 | 16:00 UK 🚨 Online Seminar titled "Cheater-driven evolution of reproductive division of labour" by Prof. Nobuto Takeuchi. Please repost & to attend join cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86460755… (password: TLMNobuto4)

Extended deadline. You now have until 6 Dec to apply for your funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on 'Modelling Plant Stem Cells: Evolution, Development and Regeneration' organised by @moneralee @khwjtuss & @RenskeVroomans Apply at biologists.com/workshops/may…

Post-doc position available in my lab at SLCU. If you are passionate about plant development, live imaging and learning exciting tools like genetic mosaics and quantifying cellular growth please apply! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49272/

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition findaphd.com/phds/project/un…

Are you excited about microbial predation and have a background in microscopy/microfluidics? Please apply to join our team @EMBL! Retweet please embl.org/jobs/position/HD027… vangestelgroup.com

Fish keratoctye cells crawling around while be videoed through my DIC microscope. Video length: 45 minutes. #CellBiology

🚨This week, Wed 20/11 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨 "Mechanics of basal body patterning during multiciliated cell morphogenesis" by Dr. Jakub Sedzinski. Please repost & to attend online sign up to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr… 🐸🧫

🚨Next week, Wed 20/11 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨 "Mechanics of basal body patterning during multiciliated cell morphogenesis". Please RT & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr…

Looks like a small (controlled?) bacterial infection...

A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (green) and the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (purple), are shown. #CellBiology

Marchantia liverworts reproduce in two ways: gemmae are clones, spores are from sex. @DavidJHoey found a switch from vegetative to sexual reproduction that can respond to environmental cues. Marchantia thus strikes a reproductive decision depending on a conducive environment.⬇️

I am very excited to be sharing our new @dromius lab pre-print on a Marchantia gene MpGRAS7, with contributions from @Phil_Carella and @YangWeibing biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta @ChandniBhickta @NChiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn is finally out @Nature . Link⏩: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Preprint⏩: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/5)

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

After some time working on it, I'm very happy and proud to share our study characterising the diversity of origins of the LECA gene families! @Marcet45 @MicroBioBits @toni_gabaldon @gabaldonlab

Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)