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Eva Pillai

@evapillai.bsky.social

mechanics | multicellularity |evolution | choanoflagellates Between the Diz-Muñoz + Arendt labs (EMBL, Heidelberg) and Thibaut Brunet’s lab (Institut Pasteur). PhD: mechanics in nervous system development @FranzeLab

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Thank you @mollyherring.bsky.social for the stunning showcase 😍

Like what you see? Come ExM with us! Let’s flood the internet with microbial marvels 🦠

#ProtistsOnSky #MicroEvoSky 🧪🔬🌍

@dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @embl.org @erc.europa.eu @embo.org

04.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 101    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 2

Thank you Adrien!! Super chuffed to have this out 🥳🥳

04.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Adrien!!

04.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#LivingArchitectures Brought further to life by the stunning music of Alexandre Desplat, Philippe Hersant, and Kaija Saariaho

25.01.2026 10:53 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#LivingArchitectures is a glorious convergence of science and art.
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab turn the Orsay into a living canvas - its walls and ceilings pulsating with life. Cytoskeletal asters bloom. Cells stream, pause and surge. Magnifique!

25.01.2026 10:48 — 👍 41    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations Rashmi!!! ❤️❤️❤️🐟🐟🐟🍾🍾🍾

22.01.2026 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Wayo!!! Hope all is well on your end

20.01.2026 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you all for the herculean experimental efforts, insightful discussions, and shared curiosity that drove this project forward!

20.01.2026 08:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such an incredible group of people I had the privilege to work with on this project @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social, @niklasgampl.bsky.social, Ross McGinn, Katrin Mooslehner, Julia Becker, @alexwinkel.bsky.social, Amelia Thompson and all the other wonderful Franze lab folk

20.01.2026 08:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Benita!! ❤️❤️❤️

20.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🐸🐸🐸 I’m going to miss doing science with you now that this is out 🥲 We must find other things to do together!

19.01.2026 18:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Elias!!

19.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Christophe!!

19.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Juan!!! So glad to have this study out!

19.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🥳🥳🥳 Pretty fab start to 2026!!

19.01.2026 16:51 — 👍 41    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 0

Bon année Alex!

08.01.2026 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A wedge of galette des Rois (a French pastry containing almond frangipane) with the ceramic lucky charm

A wedge of galette des Rois (a French pastry containing almond frangipane) with the ceramic lucky charm

While galette des Rois (a French pastry containing almond frangipane) with a wedge cut out

While galette des Rois (a French pastry containing almond frangipane) with a wedge cut out

Lucky year?!
#galettedesrois

06.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Seasons greetings!

25.12.2025 22:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Omaya! 🍾

17.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The brand new website of the Bischoff lab

The brand new website of the Bischoff lab

... together with my SciArt Gallery :)

... together with my SciArt Gallery :)

So excited to share this as a new junior PI:

My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com

Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊

And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!

#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

27.11.2025 08:26 — 👍 192    🔁 58    💬 12    📌 4
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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?

Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.

👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

26.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 185    🔁 84    💬 8    📌 8

Congratulations Romain!! 🪰💥

26.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In this week's DB unit seminar @embl.org, Eva Pillai @evapillai.bsky.social , a postdoc in the Arendt, Diz-Muñoz @diz-lab.bsky.social and Brunet groups @thibautbrunet.bsky.social , shared insights on the role of cell surface mechanics in multicellularity, using choanoflagellates as a model organism

20.11.2025 07:52 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

13.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 284    🔁 130    💬 14    📌 30
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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments

Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

07.11.2025 10:44 — 👍 387    🔁 169    💬 10    📌 22

Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

21.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 58    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 1
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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

31.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 215    🔁 98    💬 15    📌 11
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

31.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 166    🔁 55    💬 1    📌 2

Glorious images and beautiful science! Congratulations to all, and what a hallowed date to get a paper out ;)

31.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Beautiful autumn morning @embl.org Heidelberg

29.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 59    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0