Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #protistsonsky

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We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals. Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #protistsOnSky

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Are you an ISOP member? Did you know one of your membership benefits is FREE publishing in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #protistsonsky

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Cool science alert!! A dream come true at #ALPOLE Sion with @embl.org's Advanced Mobile Lab: hiking, sampling and learning from amazing scientists. And bringing back a tooooon of microscopic pets 🔬🧪 Thanks everyone and thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social 🥹#ProtistsOnSky

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