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- Extremely cool PhD position alert! Plus a great supervisor!
- We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
- Please join us next week for the second iteration of the DinoSphere Seminars! This time our two speakers will talk about host-associated dinoflagellates and any challenges they might have encountered when working with them. All current and future friends of dinoflagellates welcome! #ProtistsOnSky
- We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar! Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting: Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids 📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT 💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere Please spread the word! #protistonsky
- Reposted by ehehenberger#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed. We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx 🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina ⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social #ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
- Trip 3 and past the 100 species count! Thank you for hosting us in České Budějovice Julius and Galina (and everyone providing samples!), for the prime support, and a fantastic selection of cultures! #expandthemall @moorefound.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & T. Richards
- Reposted by ehehenbergerCharacterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerHappy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […] [Original post on biologists.social]
- Reposted by ehehenberger✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025
- Reposted by ehehenbergerIt's shameful that we are so behind with endometriosis, but a landmark $50 million donation offers new hope. vajenda.substack.com/p/decades-be...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerExcited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes. 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
- Reposted by ehehenbergerWe have a new paper out today in Trends in Microbiology led by @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social, also ft. me, Tims Stephens and McDermott, and Gabby Panayotakis. Based on NASA + JGI-funded work on Cyanidiophyceae and other Yellowstone microbes. nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerDie AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Medien dürfen sie deshalb nicht wie eine normale Partei behandeln. 14 konkrete Tipps, wie das geht. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/14...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerHappy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
- Reposted by ehehenberger90% 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
- Reposted by ehehenbergerShare 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Reposted by ehehenbergerI'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland). Drop me a line if it sounds cool! Deadline: 20.06. Link here: mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerA competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods #protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky
- Reposted by ehehenberger😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab! Watch the video! Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky
- Reposted by ehehenbergerThe ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
- Reposted by ehehenbergerAlgal symbiont diversity and host fitness variation in the amoebozoan photosymbiosis 🦠 by Yamagishi et al. @jeukmicro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by ehehenberger🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)! We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼! 🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals
- Reposted by ehehenberger🚨🔬💗Whether investigating cell organelles or mapping proteins, together with Victor Puelles's lab we lay a roadmap for selecting optimal #ExM and #SuperResolution #microscopy combinations. Daria Aristova and Dominik Kylies review with amazing co-authors pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/arti...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerNew #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
- 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
- Reposted by ehehenbergerI look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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- Reposted by ehehenbergerRegistrations are now open for the next @embo.org EvoChromo meeting in December. meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Join us in beautiful Costa Brava to discuss chromatin evolution! Co-organized with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @levine-lab.bsky.social and Nick Irwin
- Reposted by ehehenberger“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerTREC is now on Bluesky! The expedition has gathered samples all along Europe’s coasts – now scientists are exploring what the data tell us. We’ll be sharing insights into this amazing ongoing work! Spread the word! @embl.org @taraoceans-science.bsky.social @embrc-eu.bsky.social 📸Massimo Del Prete
- Reposted by ehehenbergerTwo 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
- Reposted by ehehenbergerit's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
- Reposted by ehehenbergerfourth and final chapter of my PhD is out! 🚨 We used single cell metabarcode sequencing to describe the diversity of organisms associated with polycystine radiolarians near Bermuda. we found that polycystines associate with a really wide diversity of phytoplankton, compared to other radiolarians! 🤩
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- One week left to apply! Come join us looking for cool dinoflagellates in cool places :)
- PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243 #protistsonsky
- Reposted by ehehenbergerThe #Procrastinator in Chief among the #Instigators endorses this message. Pro tip: book a #hotel, ideally in #Prague...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerAnnouncing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1. pr2-database.org/post/news/20... Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more... A few highlights:
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- Reposted by ehehenbergerThis week on the podcast I spoke with Matt Johnson about ciliates, kleptoplasty, mixotrophy, and the Grateful Dead! Found everywhere you get podcasts. Please consider subscribing, sharing, and rating the show! #scicomm open.spotify.com/episode/0jdh...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerOn hidden protist diversity (unfortunately the data is not available yet) #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by ehehenbergerCheck out this amazing evolutionary story! The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by ehehenbergerFrom ‘nitrosome’ to ‘nitroplast’: stages in the evolution of nitrogen-fixing organelles from free-living diazotrophs #symbiosis
- Reposted by ehehenberger📢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!
- Beautiful endosymbiont integration story - host-encoded protein changes function and compensates for lost endosymbiont division system!
- Out today: Exciting intermediate between endosymbiont and organelle identified! Endosymbionts in Angomonas deanei lost nearly all bacterial cell division genes. Instead, we identified a host-encoded protein, ETP9, that became specialized for endosymbiont division. 1/2 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by ehehenbergerWe're on the cover of @science.org this week. Awesome work by @florentwaltz.bsky.social. #CryoET is reaching crazy resolutions inside cells, and this is just the beginning. Fantastic interpretation of the proton motive force by @verenaresch.bsky.social. Always a pleasure making #SciArt with you!🧪🧶🧬🌾
- In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
- Reposted by ehehenbergerHere, we demonstrate that Starships, a newly discovered group of cargo-mobilizing transposable elements, are active vectors of horizontally transferred DNA among eukaryotic species.
- A natural mechanism of eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by ehehenbergerCheck out our dispatch on apicomplexans that infect corals! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe? @currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs
- Reposted by ehehenberger🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243 #protistsonsky
- Reposted by ehehenbergerPostdoc available in Grenoble (France), funded by the ERC SymbiOCEAN, to work on the metabolic connectivity in planktonic photosymbiosis. 👉Passionate by symbiosis & marine protists? skills in bioinfo and molecular biology? Join us! Info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #protistsonsky #SymbioSky
- Reposted by ehehenbergerRegistration is now open for the Protistology Nordics meeting 12–13 May in Jyväskylä #protistsonsky www.jyu.fi/en/events/pr...
