Manon Demulder

#protistsonsky
Direct link to the Chaetoceros Quick Guide if you want to learn more :)
@sorayazwahlen.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social
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DinoSphere - Online talks Video credits: Liz Cooney

Our first DinoSphere seminar is this Tuesday, 1 July at 9 AM CEST! A good way to start the day if you're in Europe ☕

We will hear from Yong Heng Phua (OIST) and Karel Mocaer (Heidelberg)
🔗 Zoom link on our website: tinyurl.com/4duvwtvp

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Woo! Very excited to share our collaborative work on the centriole's Luminal Distal Ring ⭕. This project started 13 years ago with @hugovdhoek.bsky.social & @stearnslab.bsky.social, and then beautifully came together with @computingcaitie.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social.
#TeamTomo #UExM 🧪🧶🧬🔬

Postdoctoral Associate MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org

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Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
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First stop of our @moorefound.bsky.social endeavour - @bic-wur.bsky.social. Sjoerd is keeping me busy with a bunch of species and we are busy fixing and plunge freezing them for the best possible #UExM results
#makeitbigger #50shadesofgreen
@dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
@Tom Richards

Omaya Dudin Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

What started during the #EMBLtrec Plankton Retreat last fall, is now out in the wild. Please join us for the first iteration of the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series and share with potentially interested colleges.

#ProtistsOnSky

DinoSphere Welcome

We’re building a collaborative space for early-career researchers working at the intersection of dinoflagellate taxonomy& molecular biology.
🔗 Learn more: sites.google.com/view/dinosph...
💬 Got questions or input? Please reach out and let us know.
Hope to see you there!

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST)

📅 1 July 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj

Spread the word!
@protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

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

Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

Cover of science magazine illustrating a kelp forest in the Gulf of Maine with a fish looking out from within the kelp. The cover is associated with a study on effects of climate change on kelp forests. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt6788

Really proud to have had a small contribution to this work. Shane Farrell and Doug Rasher led the way showing that climate change can cause feedback effects that may make it difficult to restore ecosystems. In this case kelp is inhibited by red algae that replaces it

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On their journey to fix tomography @phaips.vd.st and @florentwaltz.bsky.social made a great website👨‍🔧👨‍🔧!

If you want to check out our lab’s tomo-pipeline please have a look and share!

🦠🧠 MemBrain update! 🧠🦠
We’ve updated our preprint! It now covers the full MemBrain v2 pipeline for end-to-end membrane analysis in #CryoET: segmentation, particle picking, and spatial statistics.
🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
🔗 Code: github.com/CellArchLab/...
🧵(1/6) #TeamTomo

Figure 4. MemBrain v2 end-to-end workflow detects periodic phycobilisome organization. A: Raw tomogram slice of EMD-31244. B: Out-of-the-box MemBrain-seg segmentation (light blue). C: A single membrane instance can be visualized in Surforama and manually annotated with GT phycobilisome positions (magenta). D: MemBrain-pick localizes particles (trained with data from C) on all membranes in the tomogram. E: MemBrain-stats computes Ripley’s O statistic using the positions from D with a bin size of 5nm. The distance between peaks (35 nm) was measured to estimate chain unit spacings.

We have updated our #MemBrain v2 preprint with a lot more details about the MemBrain-pick and MemBrain-stats modules, as well as some application examples!

Stay tuned for the upcoming thread by lead author @lorenzlamm.bsky.social! 🧠🧵

#CryoET #TeamTomo
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

POSTDOC position available in Ceske Budejovice & Cambridge, funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic taxa with spatial proteomics. Are you curious about this process and interested in proteomics and data analysis? Join us by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/250

Extremely thrilled to have authored this study! The multimodal imaging gave us a wonderful view into organelle hijacking in the polar dinoflagellate!

Huge thanks to all the collaborators who made this possible!!

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Building of a research institute by the sea in Roscoff, France

Two years ago, TREC began in Roscoff. Sampling at 120+ sites across Europe was supported by @embl.org custom-built mobile lab and @taraoceans-science.bsky.social schooner, enabling on-site processing across land and sea. Now this work continues, with 100s of projects initiated 📸 Kinga Lubowiecka

Thrilled to share these experiments on shaping focused ion beams to explore different ways of milling. Here, we explore using different beam geometries to generate cellular thin sections/lamellae. The video shows elongating the beam on a charging spot burn www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Blue Gift
9/2016 13 X 13 inches [33 X 33 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton

One week left to apply! Come join us looking for cool dinoflagellates in cool places :)

Same 18 Congress | Information and News Find out all about the Same 18 Conference: dates, presentations, and news. Join experts and professionals at this unmissable event. Find out more here!

🌊 🦠 🌍 "Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet" is the theme of the 18th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (#SAME18), taking place in Barcelona from Sept 28 to Oct 3, 2025. Dive into cutting-edge research on microbial life in aquatic systems!
More details at same18barcelona.com

With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.

LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org

Interested in photosynthetic organisms? Looking for a space to focus on research and kick-start your journey as a group leader? We’d love for you to join us. We offer an incredibly competitive package—on par with about 2 ERC grants for 8 years—and a collaborative environment unlike anywhere else 1/2

Senior Group Leader Position

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

📢Excited to share TWO ERC-funded postdoc positions!🧪Are you passionate about molecular mechanisms and marine microbial interactions?🌊🔬Join us in dissecting antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions, by the sea! tiny.cc/xlfe001 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social Please msg to hear more!

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...