Fantastic visit to Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch this week hosted by the students from @cellarchlab.com lab! So much great science on display!
Look at this view (from one of the PI offices, top floor) and these beautiful lab pumpkins! 😅 #cilia #diatoms #chlamy @computingcaitie.bsky.social
Look at this view (from one of the PI offices, top floor) and these beautiful lab pumpkins! 😅 #cilia #diatoms #chlamy @computingcaitie.bsky.social
October 28, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Fantastic visit to Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch this week hosted by the students from @cellarchlab.com lab! So much great science on display!
Look at this view (from one of the PI offices, top floor) and these beautiful lab pumpkins! 😅 #cilia #diatoms #chlamy @computingcaitie.bsky.social
Look at this view (from one of the PI offices, top floor) and these beautiful lab pumpkins! 😅 #cilia #diatoms #chlamy @computingcaitie.bsky.social
A mówią, że teraz chlamy, nie zawsze chlaliśmy a w PRL jeszcze zamienialiśmy wódkę na jedzenie taki to był raj.
Wezme se małpkę im idę do pracy…
Wezme se małpkę im idę do pracy…
October 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
A mówią, że teraz chlamy, nie zawsze chlaliśmy a w PRL jeszcze zamienialiśmy wódkę na jedzenie taki to był raj.
Wezme se małpkę im idę do pracy…
Wezme se małpkę im idę do pracy…
7/ One subclone (11A5) went obligate: all 16- and 32-celled colonies had soma, >50 generations after the last cold shock. Nearly all its mutated genes carry regulatory changes, and most have homologs that are cold-induced in Chlamy AND soma-specific in Volvox/Astrephomene.
October 16, 2026 at 1:11 AM
7/ One subclone (11A5) went obligate: all 16- and 32-celled colonies had soma, >50 generations after the last cold shock. Nearly all its mutated genes carry regulatory changes, and most have homologs that are cold-induced in Chlamy AND soma-specific in Volvox/Astrephomene.
That's a very much appreciated comment, spent months of my PhD curating chlamy transposons (building on some excellent earlier work by Repbase). Pleasure to work with you and your lab on this too!
October 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
That's a very much appreciated comment, spent months of my PhD curating chlamy transposons (building on some excellent earlier work by Repbase). Pleasure to work with you and your lab on this too!
Chlamy can probably do that also ???
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
October 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Chlamy can probably do that also ???
I am happy with one Chlamy Nobel already 😅
October 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I am happy with one Chlamy Nobel already 😅
Shout out chlamy
Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
October 5, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Shout out chlamy
Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏
His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨
Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨
Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
October 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏
His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨
Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨
Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
Very exciting day for #Chlamy. Exploring natures diversity and looking at seemingly inconspicuous species can lead to great insights!
Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
October 6, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Very exciting day for #Chlamy. Exploring natures diversity and looking at seemingly inconspicuous species can lead to great insights!
Sure humans, congrats! But, we all know that the true star is Chlamy! Also, we really need a Chlamoji!
October 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Sure humans, congrats! But, we all know that the true star is Chlamy! Also, we really need a Chlamoji!
Still celebrating today's Nobel-winning role for Chlamydomonas research, I highlight new, exciting Chlamy discovery from the Lechtreck Lab @universityofga.bsky.social. There are different (maybe 9?) Polycystin complexes in flagellar subdomains involved in fast swimming!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PKD2-like proteins target Chlamydomonas PKD2 to distinct subciliary regions | PNAS
Many motile and sensory functions of cilia and flagella depend on the precise localization
of transmembrane proteins within the ciliary membrane. R...
www.pnas.org
October 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Still celebrating today's Nobel-winning role for Chlamydomonas research, I highlight new, exciting Chlamy discovery from the Lechtreck Lab @universityofga.bsky.social. There are different (maybe 9?) Polycystin complexes in flagellar subdomains involved in fast swimming!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Just work on Chlamy!
October 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Just work on Chlamy!
Ah… Shakespeare and Chlamy. The finer things!
September 28, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Ah… Shakespeare and Chlamy. The finer things!
Chlamy spotted in the wild @cellarchlab.com
September 28, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Chlamy spotted in the wild @cellarchlab.com
you're right! I found some more info about this sample, it was more likely #Stylonychia mytilus, here's a picture of a whole cell, sadly being fed with chlamy (?) as food... (no scalebar sorry!) #ciliates #protistsonsky
September 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM
you're right! I found some more info about this sample, it was more likely #Stylonychia mytilus, here's a picture of a whole cell, sadly being fed with chlamy (?) as food... (no scalebar sorry!) #ciliates #protistsonsky
ya with uh, chlamy - uh covid 😤
September 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
ya with uh, chlamy - uh covid 😤
How come in the paper you call Chlamydomonas "Chlamy" but the Spinach is not "Spiny"
September 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
How come in the paper you call Chlamydomonas "Chlamy" but the Spinach is not "Spiny"
4.33 H+/ATP (1.39 ATP/NADPH) in Chlamy chloroplasts; v. interesting for the bioenergetics if that's your thing (helping to ease the energetic cost of the CCM?).
Great to share our new preprint on Chlamy’s chloroplast ATP synthase at 2.2 Å we see 13 c subunits, a modified redox regulation and a complete Grotthuss proton wire 🦠☀️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A 13-subunit c-ring in the Chlamydomonas chloroplast ATP synthase lowers the H⁺/ATP cost of carbon fixation
The chloroplast F1Fo ATP synthase is a rotary motor that converts the light-driven proton-motive force into the chemical energy of ATP. The number of c-subunits in its rotor fixes the number of proton...
www.biorxiv.org
September 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
4.33 H+/ATP (1.39 ATP/NADPH) in Chlamy chloroplasts; v. interesting for the bioenergetics if that's your thing (helping to ease the energetic cost of the CCM?).
If this does not convert you to Chlamy, you're a lost soul.
have you ever seen 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 doing a perfect breast stroke? here you go...
#ProtistsOnSky
#ProtistsOnSky
February 20, 2026 at 7:43 PM
If this does not convert you to Chlamy, you're a lost soul.
Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome!
Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins.
bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG
This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected!
1/n 🧵
Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins.
bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG
This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected!
1/n 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This is absolutely gorgeous work from @helenfoster.bsky.social, @margotriggi.bsky.social, @gaiapigino.bsky.social and colleagues 🤩
#Chlamy cilia never cease to amaze!
#Chlamy cilia never cease to amaze!
There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is absolutely gorgeous work from @helenfoster.bsky.social, @margotriggi.bsky.social, @gaiapigino.bsky.social and colleagues 🤩
#Chlamy cilia never cease to amaze!
#Chlamy cilia never cease to amaze!