The 16th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XVI), focusing on "Principles to Practice", will be held online on Aug. 22-27, 2021 (via an immersion conference platform). Please keep an eye on the website for the updating of registration (biomin2021.cn).

Excited to share our last paper, revealing the importance of extra cellular #vesicles in expediting viral infection dynamics & prolonging #virus half life😱😱 , all of this in the natural environment ! Congrats Schatz et al. !! #sRNA #giantvirus #mesocosm nature.com/articles/s4139…

.Gal Lab, #LaraEstroff (Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell) et al, "used biological and synthetic molecules to show a 'smart' strategy that organisms use in order to concentrate ions for controlled crystallization." Read the paper here --> acspubs.co/L6ZY50F3fp6 #AuthorsChoice #OA

Excited to share this! just out Developmental Cell. Heroic effort by Kamalesh Kumari etal together with Shilo lab Weizmann Institute showing #exocytosis of large exocrine vesicles occurs by membrane crumpling preserving cell membrane integrity. Why is it important? 1/n👇 tinyurl.com/5tecm54k

Morris Kahn Marine Research Station A great day hosting Einat Segev and Gal Lab course at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station University of Haifa

'Silicon drives the evolution of complex crystal morphology in calcifying algae' My new commentary in New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Inspired by this exciting (paradigm shift) new paper by Gerald Langer @GLWheeler2 Gal Lab @DrCEWalker et al. 👏👍 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

.Gal Lab et al "used biological and synthetic molecules to show a 'smart' strategy that organisms use in order to concentrate ions for controlled crystallization." Read the paper here --> acspubs.co/nNj650FrVAl Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell #AuthorsChoice #OA

Very cool paper. Diatom shells are fascinating and it's even more fascinating that people are still uncovering how they are forming. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Every rule in biology has an exception… Remember that we were taught that #diatoms form their #silica inside their cells? Well, not always. Check our new paper Nature Communications. Using #cryoET we discovered extracellular silicification in diatoms!!! rdcu.be/cqT2N

Very happy to share our #cryoET work with #JuliaMahamid EMBL on #coccolith formation. Amazing how #OceanAcidification looks from within cells! pnas.org/content/118/46…

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A great perspective on the enigmatic architecture of #pteropods shells. Typical #biomineralization... link.springer.com/article/10.155…

Our new paper is out! Or Eliason, PhD student in the lab, shows that while some environmental proxies are sensitive to microbial interactions, others are not. An exciting step towards reconstructing past microbial interactions. doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12…

Please RT Excited to announce that together with DiezLab we have an open PhD student or Postdoc position B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering Physics of Life Dresden If you are a biophysicist/cell biologist interested in exploring the unusual cell motility of diatoms contact us for more details #diatom

Very happy to share our latest work Angewandte Chemie bit.ly/3sxO0uj We investigated a synthetic system that mimics #diatom silicification and found that polymer phase separation is an unexpected regulator! 😯

Thanks Caroline Thaler🔬 !!! These questions are exactly what boggles our mind, and you give it a wider perspective bringing the #geochemistry perspective. Very interested to know if others have suggestions!

The GRS/GRC Biomineralization 2022 (Chair: Janet Moradian -Oldak) will take place in Barcelona (Spain) IN PERSON. The program is now online: grc.org/biomineralizat… Abstract submission is open until July 17th.

In this recent work Science Magazine📢, we revisit the mechanisms of #Morphogenesis in #biomineralization. It's cool to see that no crazy tricks are needed, cellular confinement can suffice in making amazing structures!😲 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A cool perspective highlighting our work in the context of biological #crystals👇