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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It took a while, but here we are. Our micDROP paper is out in @natcomms.nature.com, led by @atargt.bsky.social. She asked whether the sequence of a disordered region can self-recognize specifically. She measured this for ten IDRs in living yeast cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Join us this Wednesday! "Biophysics of Clathrin Coat Assembly, Curvature, and Mechanics" Wednesday, September 16, 2026 1:00–3:00 PM Eastern Time Registration and meeting access my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen... Talks by Marko Kaksonen, Jeanne Stachowiak, Julien Berro, and Padmini Rangamani.

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Do you want to label the nuclear envelope? Do you work on a non-model species? Try Concanavalin A! We tested ConA on various species across the eukaryotic tree and find it is a very useful ExM-compatible marker for the NE and ER. Read all about it in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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