Stentor coeruleus is a unicellular protist with amazing wound healing and regenerative abilities, making it amenable to grafting and micro surgical experiments. In the spirit of the Halloween season, I channeled my Dr. Frankenstein energy and created a 7-headed Stentor #protistsonsky

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A new preprint by @amirfromm.bsky.social 📣 How do protists fight viruses in nature? Using single-cell sequencing in an isolated alpine lake, we uncover natural giant-virus infections and reveal the induction of viperin, an ancient antiviral defense, in wild protists 🏔️🦠->

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Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germany’s first female physics professor. She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her. 49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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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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3 days of incredible plant #proteostasis talks @ beautiful Strasbourg @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social thanks Esther, Pascal and all the organisers for bringing us together!

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