A genialidade de Einstein está em juntar a física, a química e a biologia para teorizar
Esta pequena alga, Closterium, demonstra uma das leis fundamentais do universo sob o microscópio.
Closterium é uma alga em forma de crescente e tem minúsculos cristais em cada ponta das células. 1/👇🧵
Esta pequena alga, Closterium, demonstra uma das leis fundamentais do universo sob o microscópio.
Closterium é uma alga em forma de crescente e tem minúsculos cristais em cada ponta das células. 1/👇🧵
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A genialidade de Einstein está em juntar a física, a química e a biologia para teorizar
Esta pequena alga, Closterium, demonstra uma das leis fundamentais do universo sob o microscópio.
Closterium é uma alga em forma de crescente e tem minúsculos cristais em cada ponta das células. 1/👇🧵
Esta pequena alga, Closterium, demonstra uma das leis fundamentais do universo sob o microscópio.
Closterium é uma alga em forma de crescente e tem minúsculos cristais em cada ponta das células. 1/👇🧵
February 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Alga verda unicel·lular del gènere Closterium del Rec del Vilar (Banyoles).
June 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Alga verda unicel·lular del gènere Closterium del Rec del Vilar (Banyoles).
Eén watermonstertje 💦 van het #Bargerveen en dan allemaal van die prachtige #sieralgen erin:
💚 #Xanthidium antilopaeum
💚 #Closterium cf. acutum
💚 #Bambusina brebisonii
💚 #Spondylosium pulchellum
💚 #Micrasterias truncata
(Die laatste speciaal voor de #NJN ers onder ons!).
#desmids #algae 🔬
💚 #Xanthidium antilopaeum
💚 #Closterium cf. acutum
💚 #Bambusina brebisonii
💚 #Spondylosium pulchellum
💚 #Micrasterias truncata
(Die laatste speciaal voor de #NJN ers onder ons!).
#desmids #algae 🔬
October 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Eén watermonstertje 💦 van het #Bargerveen en dan allemaal van die prachtige #sieralgen erin:
💚 #Xanthidium antilopaeum
💚 #Closterium cf. acutum
💚 #Bambusina brebisonii
💚 #Spondylosium pulchellum
💚 #Micrasterias truncata
(Die laatste speciaal voor de #NJN ers onder ons!).
#desmids #algae 🔬
💚 #Xanthidium antilopaeum
💚 #Closterium cf. acutum
💚 #Bambusina brebisonii
💚 #Spondylosium pulchellum
💚 #Micrasterias truncata
(Die laatste speciaal voor de #NJN ers onder ons!).
#desmids #algae 🔬
Ik laat jullie graag even meegenieten van de diversiteit aan #algae die ik aantrof in een aantal watermonsters uit de Berkenwoudse Driehoek, #Krimpenerwaard. (1)
September 8, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Ik laat jullie graag even meegenieten van de diversiteit aan #algae die ik aantrof in een aantal watermonsters uit de Berkenwoudse Driehoek, #Krimpenerwaard. (1)
We’re excited to welcome Takashi Murata, joining us all the way from Japan, to tell us how microtubules mediate post-cytokinetic cell wall synthesis in Closterium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
September 30, 2026 at 3:42 PM
We’re excited to welcome Takashi Murata, joining us all the way from Japan, to tell us how microtubules mediate post-cytokinetic cell wall synthesis in Closterium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
We’re very delighted to welcome our first invited speaker, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, from Japan! He is taking us into the fascinating world of the unicellular zygnematophycean alga Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex. 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
September 30, 2026 at 7:34 AM
We’re very delighted to welcome our first invited speaker, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, from Japan! He is taking us into the fascinating world of the unicellular zygnematophycean alga Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex. 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci
Quando se movem, eles estão batendo incessantemente nos minúsculos cristais nas pontas do Closterium. E porque esses cristais são muito pequenos, menos de um milésimo de milímetro, a barragem desigual de impactos moleculares os faz tremer e dançar. 4/👇
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Quando se movem, eles estão batendo incessantemente nos minúsculos cristais nas pontas do Closterium. E porque esses cristais são muito pequenos, menos de um milésimo de milímetro, a barragem desigual de impactos moleculares os faz tremer e dançar. 4/👇
O Closterium vive na água, o que significa que está cercado por um número quase inimaginável de moléculas de água. Em qualquer temperatura acima do zero absoluto (-273,15°C ou -459,67°F), essas moléculas estão constantemente em movimento por causa da energia térmica que carregam. 3/👇
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
O Closterium vive na água, o que significa que está cercado por um número quase inimaginável de moléculas de água. Em qualquer temperatura acima do zero absoluto (-273,15°C ou -459,67°F), essas moléculas estão constantemente em movimento por causa da energia térmica que carregam. 3/👇
This #amoeba eats prey like #owls do www.sciencenews.org/article/amoe...
The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes
The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes
December 14, 2024 at 10:33 AM
This #amoeba eats prey like #owls do www.sciencenews.org/article/amoe...
The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes
The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Unser Biologe Jan de Vries erhält einen #ERC Consolidator Grant für das Projekt StreptoProgram. Sein Team untersucht, wie die Evolution alte Gene zu Netzwerken kombiniert hat, die frühen Pflanzen das Leben an Land ermöglichten. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Unser Biologe Jan de Vries erhält einen #ERC Consolidator Grant für das Projekt StreptoProgram. Sein Team untersucht, wie die Evolution alte Gene zu Netzwerken kombiniert hat, die frühen Pflanzen das Leben an Land ermöglichten. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Wyn sent us this fab image of Closterium lunula (big one in the middle) surrounded by C. cf intermedium. Desmids from a water sample near Bod Petryal. @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social @northwaleswt.bsky.social
March 5, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Wyn sent us this fab image of Closterium lunula (big one in the middle) surrounded by C. cf intermedium. Desmids from a water sample near Bod Petryal. @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social @northwaleswt.bsky.social
Lieve mensen. Mooie dag vandaag. Houd het hoofd koel 😎💦🔬
Hier wat #sieralgen uit een vrij zuur vennetje op de Veluwe.
#algae #desmids
Hier wat #sieralgen uit een vrij zuur vennetje op de Veluwe.
#algae #desmids
July 15, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Lieve mensen. Mooie dag vandaag. Houd het hoofd koel 😎💦🔬
Hier wat #sieralgen uit een vrij zuur vennetje op de Veluwe.
#algae #desmids
Hier wat #sieralgen uit een vrij zuur vennetje op de Veluwe.
#algae #desmids
Using sexual reproduction markers identified from scRNA data, Arthur Cleyman developed new tools to transform Cylindrotheca closterium and make “pheromone sensing” lines. Cool 😎 #MLD8 @gustbilcke.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Using sexual reproduction markers identified from scRNA data, Arthur Cleyman developed new tools to transform Cylindrotheca closterium and make “pheromone sensing” lines. Cool 😎 #MLD8 @gustbilcke.bsky.social
Experiments of a green alga, Closterium psl. complex, show that a single episode of sexual reproduction produces large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors, promoting evolutionary rescue:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@yawaguchi.bsky.social and @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@yawaguchi.bsky.social and @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social
A single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors
Abstract. Sexual reproduction has been a central topic in evolutionary biology because of its many costs: why have organisms evolved sexual reproduction de
doi.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Experiments of a green alga, Closterium psl. complex, show that a single episode of sexual reproduction produces large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors, promoting evolutionary rescue:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@yawaguchi.bsky.social and @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@yawaguchi.bsky.social and @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social
Our new study is out!
Just one episode of sexual reproduction in Closterium🌙 can create offspring with very different stress reactions compared to the parents.
This might be because of massive copy number variations in their genomes, which produce a wide range of phenotypes.
Just one episode of sexual reproduction in Closterium🌙 can create offspring with very different stress reactions compared to the parents.
This might be because of massive copy number variations in their genomes, which produce a wide range of phenotypes.
Our first paper on algal experiments at NIG with @yawaguchi.bsky.social! We found that a single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates (and prevent extinction) under dual stressors @jevbio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... bsky.app/profile/bior...
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Our new study is out!
Just one episode of sexual reproduction in Closterium🌙 can create offspring with very different stress reactions compared to the parents.
This might be because of massive copy number variations in their genomes, which produce a wide range of phenotypes.
Just one episode of sexual reproduction in Closterium🌙 can create offspring with very different stress reactions compared to the parents.
This might be because of massive copy number variations in their genomes, which produce a wide range of phenotypes.
We don't see each other's headers usually so here's mine.
June 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
We don't see each other's headers usually so here's mine.
#ProtistsOnSky
here is a great resource of movies 👉 av.tib.eu/media/15238#... from the legendary IWF Göttingen
thx @tristamoeba.bsky.social for pointing this out 🙏
here is a great resource of movies 👉 av.tib.eu/media/15238#... from the legendary IWF Göttingen
thx @tristamoeba.bsky.social for pointing this out 🙏
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
#ProtistsOnSky
here is a great resource of movies 👉 av.tib.eu/media/15238#... from the legendary IWF Göttingen
thx @tristamoeba.bsky.social for pointing this out 🙏
here is a great resource of movies 👉 av.tib.eu/media/15238#... from the legendary IWF Göttingen
thx @tristamoeba.bsky.social for pointing this out 🙏
Bacteria clustering around Closterium algae—They are attracted to the oxygen the algae produces via photosynthesis. A fascinating micro-interaction I found in a recent water sample.
#microscopy #microbiology #algae #bacteria #photosynthesis
#microscopy #microbiology #algae #bacteria #photosynthesis
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Bacteria clustering around Closterium algae—They are attracted to the oxygen the algae produces via photosynthesis. A fascinating micro-interaction I found in a recent water sample.
#microscopy #microbiology #algae #bacteria #photosynthesis
#microscopy #microbiology #algae #bacteria #photosynthesis
New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Yangjie Sheng et al ⬇️
Temperature fluctuation alleviates the negative effects of warming on marine diatoms: comparison between Thalassiosira sp. and Nitzschia closterium f. minutissima
Abstract. Marine phytoplankton are subjected to a wide range of environmental heterogeneity, from mean climate change to natural fluctuations under the climate change scenario. These changes include…
bg.copernicus.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Yangjie Sheng et al ⬇️
This is Closterium, a microscopic alga with a typical moon shape. At the ends we see crystals with their famous Brownian movements. I hope you like it. (40×10×2×)
🦠📷🎞📸🔬🌿🟡
#algae #green #microscopic #Canon #bresser #microscope
🦠📷🎞📸🔬🌿🟡
#algae #green #microscopic #Canon #bresser #microscope
April 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is Closterium, a microscopic alga with a typical moon shape. At the ends we see crystals with their famous Brownian movements. I hope you like it. (40×10×2×)
🦠📷🎞📸🔬🌿🟡
#algae #green #microscopic #Canon #bresser #microscope
🦠📷🎞📸🔬🌿🟡
#algae #green #microscopic #Canon #bresser #microscope
Banana closterium ❤️🦠🍌 It looks great!
January 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Banana closterium ❤️🦠🍌 It looks great!
na mic léinn ag déanamh tionscadail ar therraria
leithphéist, closterium, copapód
leithphéist, closterium, copapód
December 9, 2024 at 9:36 AM
na mic léinn ag déanamh tionscadail ar therraria
leithphéist, closterium, copapód
leithphéist, closterium, copapód
Impressed by the range of model organisms mentioned at #EMBOplantEvo - Physcomitrium, Chlamydomonas, Marchantia, various Streptophytes, Draparnaldia, Closterium, Ricciocarpus, Ectocarpus (not a plant!). Arabidopsis barely gets a look-in, and Marchantia is *everywhere*...
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Impressed by the range of model organisms mentioned at #EMBOplantEvo - Physcomitrium, Chlamydomonas, Marchantia, various Streptophytes, Draparnaldia, Closterium, Ricciocarpus, Ectocarpus (not a plant!). Arabidopsis barely gets a look-in, and Marchantia is *everywhere*...