Freshwater sponge research group at the University of Olivet. Lead by S Kolomyjec, PhD. Any options are my own. |🇺🇸|🇺🇦|🏳️🌈
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Our latest paper is now officially published and available via open access in Journal of Biogeography!
Journal of Biogeography | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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So awesome, I am interrupting my social media hiatus to share!
"A morphological cell atlas of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri with key insights from targeted single-cell transcriptomes" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
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23 Jul 2024
Symbiofresh grant awarded by @AgEInves!! 3 years of hard work to understand symbiotic associations between freshwater #sponges and 🦠 ahead with a national and an international dream team!! Now true holidays unlocked!! @MTuron_Rodrigo
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Undergraduate student Ethan pulling up a branch with a large freshwater sponge growing on it, Ethan is collecting sponges this summer to look for microplastics
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15 Jul 2024
Led by Swee Cheng Lim @NUSingapore everything you need to know about the surprising diversity of teeny-tiny sponges living on deep-sea polymetallic nodules. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12683 #NHMDeepSea @NHM_Science
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7 Jul 2024
Today's freshwater sponge collection trip was a success.
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I interrupt my #polychaeteday stream with this @inaturalist photo of a BIG ASS Pisaster brevispinus! inaturalist.org/observations…
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An AMAZING set of images showing off brooding young in sea anemone TENTACLES by the Marine Detective! themarinedetective.com/2024/…
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18 Jun 2024
This is your friendly neighborhood Octopus Lady reminding you that you don't have to go into space to find aliens.
18 Jun 2024
This is what a metamorphosing starfish larva looks like. Brachiolaria (1.5 mm in length) from Skagerrak, North Sea.
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11 Jun 2024
Flying along ctenophore syncytial nerve net neurons. Check out our YouTube channel: youtu.be/aX678zJKwSo?si=LWhw…
EM data: @maikekittelmann
3D reconstructions: @Pawel_Burkhardt
Blender animation: @DigelLeonid
Original article:
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
@MSarsCentre @UiB @oxford_brookes
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You stare too long at the gemmules,and the gemmules start to stare back....
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10 Jun 2024
µXRF Element map of a freeze dried freshwater sponge. Image 1: Visible light image. Image 2: Multi-element maps. Image 3: Si only map, showing spicule arrangement w/in flesh.
Data collected with Bruker Tornado M4
#spongethursday
#freshwater
@bruker
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Awesome work
8 Jun 2024
My second postdoc-paper is out in Environmental @MicrobiomeJ ! I am delighted to share our last work with @DevoogdNicole, on the transmission of bacterial communities during the first stages of the #freshwater #sponge Spongilla lacustris!
environmentalmicrobiome.biom…
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5 Jun 2024
These tentacles 🤩!
The ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus cultured in our ctenophore facility @Alexandre4_Jan #ctenophores @MSarsCentre @UiB
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2 Jun 2024
A herd of shrimps,
eating Petco mystery pellets,
looms yonder.
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