#Protistology
Call for Papers! This Special Issue aims to showcase cutting-edge research presented at the Protistology Open meeting in Prague, as well as high-quality articles closely related to the scientific themes of the meeting.

#protistsonsky
October 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Protistology wins prizes everywhere this week. Congratulations to Anders Alfjorden and colleagues for this wonderful paper!
Congratulations Anders Alfjorden, et al.! Their paper, "Identification of a new gregarine parasite associated with mass mortality events of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) in Sweden," won the 2024 Trager Award
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

#protistsonsky
October 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
It is prizes for protistology this week! Congratulations to Chuanqi Jiang and colleagues for their work. Note, I actually dragged a non-protistologist colleague into my office to show them how cool Figure 6 of this paper was:)
Congratulations, Chuanqi Jiang, et al.! Their paper, "Decoding the Nature of the Peritrich Stalk: A Distinctive Organelle in a Large Group of Ciliated Unicellular Eukaryotes," won the 2025 Trager Award for Best Paper.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
#protistsonsky
October 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Congratulations to Chlamydomonas for winning the 2026 Nobel Prize!!

Apparently, there were also some human scientists (Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel) involved and congratulations to them as well;)

Yay Protistology!
October 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The International Society of Protistology is funding community initiatives like workshops and symposia!

The deadline is soon (09/30) but the funding will also be available next year :-)
Send to anyone that might benefit from this/plz retweet! #ProtistsonSky
protistologists.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Community Initiative Support Fund - International Society of Protistologists
The International Society of Protistologists is an association of scientists devoted to research on single-celled eukaryotes, or protists. The ISOP promotes the presentation and discussion of new or i...
protistologists.org
September 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
📢 Meet our invited speaker Núria Ros-Rocher, Institut Pasteur: "A Tree without leaves”

What can branching morphogenesis in a close relative of animals reveal about the evolutionary origins of complex cell shape and organisation?

#Genomics #CellBiology #Protistology @thibautbrunet.bsky.social
September 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
3/3

Steady-state probabilities:

Stop: 96.6%
Swim: 3.3%
Reorient: 0.03%

Keith finds 96.6% a familiar personal estimate of time spent asleep.

The Office welcomes empirical confirmation that prolonged inactivity remains compatible with a rich behavioural manifold.

#No10Keith @unroll.skywriter.blue
August 30, 2026 at 12:38 AM
📢 Only 5 days left to register for CGUE2026!

Sequencing, NGS, WGS, T2T, genomics, bioinformatics, evolution, microbiology, cell biology, protists, fungi, yeasts, microalgae & more.

📅 Registration closes Aug 31 at 23:59
comparativegenomics2026.com

#Microbiology #Genomics #Protistology #Cellbiology
August 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
📢 Meet our invited speaker Liz Cooney @protistwtmostest.bsky.social , CEA Grenoble

Exploring the genomic and structural states of cyanobacteria–dinoflagellate symbioses in uncultured Dinophysales

#Genomics #Symbiosis #Protistology #MicrobialEvolution @cstairs.bsky.social @lauraeme.bsky.social
August 25, 2026 at 9:59 AM
📢 Only 7 days left to register for CGUE2026!

Registration closes Aug 31 at 23:59.

Join us in Sant Feliu for 5 days of comparative genomics, protistology and eukaryotic evolution.

👉 comparativegenomics2026.com

#Genomics #Protistology #Eukaryotes
@cstairs.bsky.social @lauraeme.bsky.social
August 24, 2026 at 8:28 AM
📢 Meet invited speaker Michelle Leger, OIST:

“Adaptations to endosymbiosis in symbiotic microalgae and their foraminiferan hosts”

How does living in an intimate partnership reshape the evolution of both organisms?

📅 Oct 8 | 09:30

#Eukaryotes #Protistology #Genomics @freejakoba.bsky.social
August 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists! Join us 3–4 Sept 2026 at the Natural History Museum, London - exploring 'LOPIT' methods for mapping proteins to organelles, complexes & symbionts.

Register by 10 Aug | Abstracts and Early Bird due 31 July

🔗 protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeting-2026
#protist
P-UK Autumn Meeting 2026 | Protistology UK
protistology.org.uk
June 29, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Travel bursaries of up to £150 are available with a talk or a poster! Don't let cost be a barrier

Priority given to early-career and student researchers.

Details and registration here: protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...

@microbiologysociety.org
P-UK Autumn Meeting 2026 | Protistology UK
protistology.org.uk
June 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Calling all protistologists!👩‍🔬

We're inviting talks and posters spanning the full breadth of protistology, from ecology to medicine.

All career stages welcome — especially early-career researchers.

Submit your abstract by July 31st and more info: www.protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...
#protist
P-UK Autumn Meeting 2026 | Protistology UK
protistology.org.uk
June 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM
📣 Announcing the Protistology UK 2026 Autumn Meeting: two half-days at the Natural History Museum.

3rd - 4th September 2026

Open to all areas of protistology — talks, posters, and an intro workshop on spatial proteomics.

Bursaries available up to £150.

@microbiologysociety.org #protistology
P-UK Autumn Meeting 2026 | Protistology UK
protistology.org.uk
June 19, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Thinking of attending the Protistology meeting in April. Anyone have details on abstract submission? Can't find anything on the website. registration.cas.cz/PROTIST2026/...
#protistonsky
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Protistology Open 2026
Protistology Open 2026 will bring together experts from around the world who study protists – all eukaryotes excluding plants, animals, and fungi.
registration.cas.cz
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Job - Alert 🌿

🌿 RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD STUDENT (ALL GENDERS) - DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY OF VAMPIRE AMOEBAE

Deadline: 2025-06-15
Location: Germany, Darmstadt, Hessen

🔗 www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7425

#hiring #PhD #LifeSciences #Microbiology #Protistology #Ecology #Microscopy #Biology
Academic Europe - RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD STUDENT (ALL GENDERS) - DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY OF VAMPIRE AMOEBAE
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May 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Job - Alert 🌱

🌱 RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD STUDENT (ALL GENDERS) - BEHAVIOUR AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Deadline: 2025-06-15
Location: Germany, Darmstadt, Hessen

👉 www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7424

#hiring #Protistology #Microscopy #ChemicalEcology #BehaviouralBiology #LifeSciences #Biology #phd
Academic Europe - RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD STUDENT (ALL GENDERS) - BEHAVIOUR AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
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May 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Here's a question that doesn't get enough attention:

Why do protists matter to our understanding of the global ecosystem & challenges of predicting protist species resilience & fragility to climate change?

Addressed here in detail by Perrin & Dorrell

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Protists and protistology in the Anthropocene: challenges for a climate and ecological crisis - BMC Biology
Eukaryotic microorganisms, or “protists,” while often inconspicuous, play fundamental roles in the Earth ecosystem, ranging from primary production and nutrient cycling to interactions with human heal...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Statistical distributions of gene expression levels in the non-model ciliate Colpoda across strains and genes using transcriptome sequencing.
Statistical distributions of gene expression levels in the non-model ciliate Colpoda across strains and genes using transcriptome sequencing.
Published in European journal of protistology
doi.org
March 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Can it go read old protistology books from early 1900, figure out how many times the name of the species in question changed and how many times it changed position in the tree ?
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October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed.

We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx

🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina
⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social
#ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky
Trip 3 and past the 100 species count! Thank you for hosting us in České Budějovice Julius and Galina (and everyone providing samples!), for the prime support, and a fantastic selection of cultures!
#expandthemall @moorefound.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & T. Richards
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#ProtistsOnSky
Insanely PROUD to share our new collaborative project with
@gautamdey.bsky.social &
@centriolelab.bsky.social #PlanExM
We think (almost certain) #Expansion #Microscopy (#UExM) is a turning point for #Protistology and #Cell Biology.

Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 5, 2024 at 7:36 AM
#Rotifersky

Hydrological seasonality shifts zooplankton metacommunity assembly mechanisms in the Chishui River, China. • Xiong et al. • European journal of protistology (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2026.126215
July 19, 2026 at 10:23 AM