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Incoming Young Group Leader GMI - Vienna Biocentre | Current postdoc in Engel Lab| All things carbon fixation and algae diversity zoomed in ❄️🔬🪸 🔗 Lab webpage: tinyurl.com/379ttj5v

Manon Demulder

Our next DinoSphere seminar will be June 18th at 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CEST hosting Jana Pilátová and @gracezhong.bsky.social 🪱 Grace Zhong: Symbiont mobility in a dinoflagellate–acoel worm symbiosis 🪩 Jana Pilátová: Eyespots as photonic mirrors in Symbiodiniaceae More details on tinyurl.com/43uckr2w!

If you want to read a cool story today, look no further: A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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((reposting partially because those are two REALLY cool speakers, so that'll be totally awesome 🤯 but also partially sharing because that dino video is stunning!!!!!! 💕))

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

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🧬 Diatoms are an extraordinarily diverse group of photosynthetic organisms, with tens of thousands of described species. Yet technical challenges still limit large-scale diatom genome production. EBP projects and biodiversity genomics R&D teams are working to solve them. 🌊🔬 #Diatoms #Biodiversity

Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇

Expanded Karenia papiloniaceae with a zoom to his nice crystalline chromosomes 😍

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It's out! A tour-de-force in plant-virus interactions by @thevirusmc.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social and many others @gmivienna.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. It turns out autophagy prevents virus-induced cell death, allowing plants to tolerate viral infection! A must-read 🌱

Manon Demulder

Fabien Burki

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The 14th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology😍🍜🍀 My first trip to Japan and my first presentation award! Many thanks to the organizers, my supervisor, @florentwaltz.bsky.social, and our wonderful collaborators! I was happy to present my work in beautiful Kagoshima🌋

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

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Megan Sorensen

Earth BioGenome Project 🌍

Simon Fisher

Nicole Coots

Armando Rubio Ramos

Marco Incarbone

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Mariia Melnik

Manon Demulder

Our work is out now! (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). We discover a selective autophagy pathway that protects plants from the mess caused by RNA viruses. Intrigued? Follow the spaghetti trail for a summary of our findings🧵-->

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RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

Marion Clavel