Amazing talk by Katrina Velle this morning to us & BEAP Lab (Biology & Ecology of Abundant Protists) about Naegleria, crawling and osmoregulation. Thanks so much, Katrina (& Tania Martín) for your visit! #protists #science

Excited to share our new preprint! Alicia Borgeaud discovered that the cell death-promoting apoptosome has an unexpected appearance and behaviour in apoptotic cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here's a Dictyostelium amoeba emerging from a spore! 🐣

New method paper from our lab: KO in choanos made easy. This has been a game-changer for us and we hope it will be useful to others biorxiv.org/content/10.110… As a bonus, we report the first evidence of the Hippo pathway controlling multicellular size in a non-animal - see below!

🔬The Fritz-Laylin lab is hoping to hire a microscope specialist in the fall of 2024. We are seeking someone with experience in light microscopy and quantitative image analysis. EM experience would be a plus! If you are interested, please send me your CV and a cover letter.

The hikes are amazing but the scientific program is even better! Thank you Wanda, Misha and Oriol for the invite of Paula and myself Paula Navarro Misha Kudryashev 🔬 ❄🕊️ Gallego Lab Wanda Kukulski. It has been amazing so far 🎉

Nature research paper: Cryo-EM architecture of a near-native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain go.nature.com/4fjB4ya

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Last week I ran a workshop for high school students UMass Dartmouth, where we looked at pondwater on microscopes. Everyone then made a "Pondemon" card for an organism they identified, using pictures they took! Here's a small sample- printable set coming soon...

Our (w/Andrew Swafford, Ethan Garner, and Lillian Fritz-Laylin) review "Actin network evolution as a key driver of eukaryotic divesification" is out now in J Cell Science! doi.org/10.1242/jcs.26…

Our institute at Uni Bern would like to host an SNSF Ambizione grantee! Early career researchers who wish to start their independent research in membrane biology are very welcome to apply. More information here: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

New professor position - please RT. We are looking for an Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate Professor to join our Department of Plant Sciences in Geneva, Switzerland (biveg.unige.ch). Deadline for applications: Oct. 31, 2024. Biologie - UNIGE #plantscijobs

The actin-spectrin submembrane scaffold restricts endocytosis along proximal axons | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

One of my hobbies = watercolor doodles. Here are some fun amoeba morphologies!

From MBoC Mechanical Strategies Supporting Growth and Size Diversity in Filamentous Fungi A new study from Louis Chevalier and Nico Minc establish how mechanical properties of fungal cells scale to support size and growth variability across evolution. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E2…

Any candidate interested in #Multicellularity ? #Experimental Evolution ? #Electron Microscopy of Cell junctions ?

Happy to see this online, our new review/bioinformatic investigation on the origin and evolution of microvilli: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bo… - also our first (but not last) collaboration with Gautam Dey's lab!

It has been 5 years since I started my lab in HiLIFE_Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology (BI), BioEnvHelsinki. Wow, what a rollercoaster! Here are 5 lessons I learned along the way and a reflection on my successes and failures at the end. A thread (1/10)

Our study on fungal zoospores swimming pattern is out in Current Biology! This study came from one simple question: Do all chytrid zoospores have the same swimming behavior? (No, they don’t!) doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… 👇

Corn smut, the only smut you should be secretly liking on your timelines! 🌽🍄‍🟫