Kirsty Wan

Kirsty Wan

micromotility.bsky.social

Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute? Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge) www.micromotility.com

👤 Joined on 20 November 2023

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  • 20 Kas 2023, 21:31
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Fantastic meeting!

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Here is our new collaborative paper on the origin of cholinergic and monoaminergic signaling. The data suggest that biogenic amine signaling is thus not a bilaterian innovation but an ancient mode of cellular communication that evolved from generalist to […] [Original post on biologists.social]

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! To continue with the October theme, please enjoy this microscopic "pumpkin". This is the nucleus of an NIH3T3 cell shown in 🟠 and the primary cilium in 🟢 - 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Christina Wang 🎃 🧪

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christoph: so glad you like it, kirsty 🙏 and yes, scale bars in microscopic images are incredibly useful when talking to non-experts about the beauty of the microverse.

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Watching Flagella (or Cilia) in Motion by Christoph — Still images do not tell whether cells rotate their flagella like a propeller or flap them like a whip. To find out, one has to film living cells...

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