Davis Laundon

The lab had an excellent time at IFPA 2025 in Erfurt. @drjanecleal.bsky.social, @davislaundon.bsky.social, and myself presented talks while @ananditau.bsky.social and Ella presented posters. Great science, great company… and even fire dancers! 🔥

06.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Our latest discovery science on chytrid fungi is just out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Using a range of tools we explore how chitin-degrading specialists are adapted and evolved. @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

28.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

A group of four COS cells - one seems to pull the other up like we all should do

The Nikon AX-NSPARC demo is gearing up at the
@ncis-marseille.bsky.social! Starting for #FluorescenceFriday with a large field-of-view confocal #cellfie of COS cells labeled for actin ⚫ endoplasmic reticulum 🟡 mitochondria 🔴 and nucleus 🔵. Fluorescence microscopy is also nice in inverted colors 🌈🧪

14.02.2025 09:58 — 👍 75    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Microtubules still doing their thing in an early ascidian embryo (Phallusia). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

13.02.2025 08:18 — 👍 92    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3

📝 FeatureForest: the power of foundation models, the usability of random forests.

Nomen est omen! We use features of the biggest models and train a handy random forest based pixel classifier with them. 👍

Hit bioRxiv recently… check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

10.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 57    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1

Check out our latest paper 'High-resolution X-ray phase-contrast tomography of human placenta with different wavefront markers' feat. synchrotron μCT imaging, correlative histology, 3D analysis, and X-ray fluorescence🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.01.2025 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FIB-SEM dataset visualized with Microscopy Nodes, data from Mocaer et al 2023

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀

This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev).

High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬

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

15.01.2025 13:39 — 👍 335    🔁 124    💬 9    📌 12

My image is on the cover! It depicts the fascinating world of choanoflagellates – tiny organisms that are the closest living relatives of animals. @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social discovered how cells in colonies communicate to regulate their shape and the coordinated beating of their cilia!
#sciart

12.01.2025 07:04 — 👍 45    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Will. Absolutely agreed 😀. The cover was created by @davislaundon.bsky.social & @ella-maru.bsky.social

11.01.2025 06:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tiny microbe colonies communicate to coordinate their behavior A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of cel...

Fascinating work by Jeffrey Colgren @jeffcolgren.bsky.social & Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social reveals electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in #choanoflagellate colonies 🤩👏 Out now in Science Advances 🧪 #evobio
Read the paper ➡️ doi.org/g8x466
🔗 tinyurl.com/ymzb9ppv

09.01.2025 14:14 — 👍 46    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

08.01.2025 19:49 — 👍 150    🔁 54    💬 10    📌 3