How tha heeeellll do i have more orokin cells than plastids
January 28, 2026 at 6:37 AM
How tha heeeellll do i have more orokin cells than plastids
4000 plastids for wukong????????????????
February 24, 2026 at 2:20 AM
4000 plastids for wukong????????????????
1/ Happy to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! 🌱🍄
We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts
#plants
We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts
#plants
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May 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
1/ Happy to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! 🌱🍄
We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts
#plants
We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts
#plants
If you kill me I drop a slightly dented RODE NT1 (Vocal Peak set), a locket with a picture of my wife, a plushie (draws from the Plushie Corner pool) and 17 plastids
If you kill me I drop a +2 Belt of Giant Strength (weightlifting belt), a Cursed Headband of Hyper focus, and assorted chems.
If you kill me I drop a Lesbian Dog Tag equippable necklace that gives Typing Speed (+40%), 8 Unfinished Manuscript (Uncommon) and 20 Light Ammo.
June 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
If you kill me I drop a slightly dented RODE NT1 (Vocal Peak set), a locket with a picture of my wife, a plushie (draws from the Plushie Corner pool) and 17 plastids
Plastid endosymbiosis without gene transfer - dinoflagellates can do it
#ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids
#ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids
Recent plastid replacement in Karlodinium ballantinum (Kareniaceae, Dinoflagellata) challenges the paradigms of endosymbiotic gene transfer
Abstract. Plastids, the photosynthetic organelles of eukaryotes, arose via endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria by a eukaryotic host and were subsequently spread
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July 15, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Plastid endosymbiosis without gene transfer - dinoflagellates can do it
#ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids
#ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids
This really is an excellent paper. It shows that plastid protein import machinery can be inherited through serial transfer, and that we should not expect additional membranes in tertiary plastids. In other words, serial transfers got easier to explain
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Plastid translocon recycling in dinoflagellates demonstrates the portability of complex plastids between hosts
The plastids of photosynthetic organisms on land are predominantly “primary plastids,” derived from an ancient endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium. Conv…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:54 AM
This really is an excellent paper. It shows that plastid protein import machinery can be inherited through serial transfer, and that we should not expect additional membranes in tertiary plastids. In other words, serial transfers got easier to explain
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Normal person: “Look at these beautiful red leaves”
Me: “I wonder how the plastids in those leaves look like…”
Me: “I wonder how the plastids in those leaves look like…”
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Normal person: “Look at these beautiful red leaves”
Me: “I wonder how the plastids in those leaves look like…”
Me: “I wonder how the plastids in those leaves look like…”
Did you know that plants can have different types of plastids/chloroplasts? The small green plastids are from the surface (epidermal) cells of the Arabidopsis leaf, while the much bigger magenta plastids are from the deeper spongy tissue. See video below.
#MicroscopyMonday #cellbiology #plastids
#MicroscopyMonday #cellbiology #plastids
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Did you know that plants can have different types of plastids/chloroplasts? The small green plastids are from the surface (epidermal) cells of the Arabidopsis leaf, while the much bigger magenta plastids are from the deeper spongy tissue. See video below.
#MicroscopyMonday #cellbiology #plastids
#MicroscopyMonday #cellbiology #plastids
New #ISEPpapers! Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @animalculum.bsky.social, @deemteam.bsky.social
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
April 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
New #ISEPpapers! Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @animalculum.bsky.social, @deemteam.bsky.social
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
Oh hell yeah I needed plastids
June 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Oh hell yeah I needed plastids
What? Diatom plastids in sea urchin eggs? Check out, #protistsonsky
Brilliant new paper by @tylerjcarrier.bsky.social on how plastid-derived structures help sea urchin development and dispersal. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003705
@plosbiology.org @geomarkiel.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@plosbiology.org @geomarkiel.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
April 24, 2026 at 8:08 AM
What? Diatom plastids in sea urchin eggs? Check out, #protistsonsky
Ok yay farmed plastids and now i can build narin
September 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Ok yay farmed plastids and now i can build narin
Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids.
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Ladies and gentlemen: The Vestigial Plastids!🎸
June 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: The Vestigial Plastids!🎸
Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out!
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
Single cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid
Photosynthetic organelles (plastids), which originated via primary endosymbiosis between an Archaeplastida ancestor and cyanobacteria, have shaped the Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere and spread across ...
doi.org
June 27, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out!
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
I think I'm more surprised by how many have no mitochondrial scaffold, which IN THEORY should be the easiest thing to assemble. (I cannot speak for the plastids).
September 28, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I think I'm more surprised by how many have no mitochondrial scaffold, which IN THEORY should be the easiest thing to assemble. (I cannot speak for the plastids).
Plastids & mitochondria arose from separate endosymbioses of prokaryotes.Their prokaryotic ancestry makes them susceptible to antibiotics. Antibiotics kill pathogenic protists by targeting their plastids or mitochondria. Here we review the lop sided inheritance.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists
Pathogenic protists are responsible for many diseases that significantly impact human and animal health across the globe. Almost all protists possess mitochondria or mitochondrion-related organelles, ...
journals.plos.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Plastids & mitochondria arose from separate endosymbioses of prokaryotes.Their prokaryotic ancestry makes them susceptible to antibiotics. Antibiotics kill pathogenic protists by targeting their plastids or mitochondria. Here we review the lop sided inheritance.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
New PEC story 🌱 led by PhD cand Susi with amazing collabs Grimm, Hause & Robatzek labs! We patch-clamped isolated plastids to show that PECs mediate rapid cation flux across the IE. PECs relay Ca²⁺ signals into plastids & link Ca²⁺ to JA-mediated defense. #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 29, 2026 at 7:07 PM
New PEC story 🌱 led by PhD cand Susi with amazing collabs Grimm, Hause & Robatzek labs! We patch-clamped isolated plastids to show that PECs mediate rapid cation flux across the IE. PECs relay Ca²⁺ signals into plastids & link Ca²⁺ to JA-mediated defense. #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Acanthocystis (maybe?) from the same bog sample. Sometimes amoebae don't need phase contrast, especially if they're full of zoochlorellae/plastids! #protistsonsky #bogblog
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Acanthocystis (maybe?) from the same bog sample. Sometimes amoebae don't need phase contrast, especially if they're full of zoochlorellae/plastids! #protistsonsky #bogblog
“Organelle Hijacking” is my new favorite scientific term. Beautiful 3D FIB-SEM🔬 work on marine plankton by @johandecelle.bsky.social and crew! The #CO2 fixing pyrenoids are massive in the stolen plastids 🧪🌊
Happy to share our last study led by @akrao.bsky.social published in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showing how a planktonic host steals and hijacks chloroplast and mitochondrion of a microalga using 3D subcellular imaging. Funded by @moorefound.bsky.social; @erc.europa.eu
#Protistsonsky #SymbioSky
#Protistsonsky #SymbioSky
April 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“Organelle Hijacking” is my new favorite scientific term. Beautiful 3D FIB-SEM🔬 work on marine plankton by @johandecelle.bsky.social and crew! The #CO2 fixing pyrenoids are massive in the stolen plastids 🧪🌊
My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
August 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
Happy to share this work with Virginia Sanchez-Puerta (not on bsky) and colleagues on how loss of photosynthesis in these (strange!) plants affects translation and tRNAs in plastids and mitochondria....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Happy to share this work with Virginia Sanchez-Puerta (not on bsky) and colleagues on how loss of photosynthesis in these (strange!) plants affects translation and tRNAs in plastids and mitochondria....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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How to upgrade stolen organelles into permanent plastids: A comparative transcriptomic perspective www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #protistsonsky
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How to upgrade stolen organelles into permanent plastids: A comparative transcriptomic perspective www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #protistsonsky
Proud to share our new paper on how prion-like fungal effectors target plastids and modulate host metabolism during root symbiosis. Exciting collaborative work uncovering PEPSI effectors and the interaction of one of them with DXR in plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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May 20, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Proud to share our new paper on how prion-like fungal effectors target plastids and modulate host metabolism during root symbiosis. Exciting collaborative work uncovering PEPSI effectors and the interaction of one of them with DXR in plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
bsky.app/profile/eell...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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1/11 🤩Sooooo happy to see this work on a new new group #algae. Looks like #centrohelids - predatory ancient eukaryotic lineage sometimes harbor vertically-inherited plastids from #dictyochophytes. Amazing work, @annewalraven.bsky.social, glad to be on board! More below:
Very excited that the preprint of the main paper of my PhD is now out!
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
We show that Meringosphaera is the first centrohelid with permanent plastids: doi.org/10.64898/202...
@zlatogursky.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, prof. Rachel A. Foster, and @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
Single cell genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid
Photosynthetic organelles (plastids), which originated via primary endosymbiosis between an Archaeplastida ancestor and cyanobacteria, have shaped the Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere and spread across ...
doi.org
June 29, 2026 at 10:05 AM
1/11 🤩Sooooo happy to see this work on a new new group #algae. Looks like #centrohelids - predatory ancient eukaryotic lineage sometimes harbor vertically-inherited plastids from #dictyochophytes. Amazing work, @annewalraven.bsky.social, glad to be on board! More below: