Many cellular innovations later used by animals were assembled long before animals evolved.We show that aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis likely entered eukaryotes early from Myxobacteria, highlighting how bacterial genes shaped the cellular landscape from which animals emerged. 🧬✨ #protistsOnSky

Behind our research on animal origins are many brilliant women scientists. Happy International Women’s Day 💜 #protistsOnSky @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience

We know their DNA. We know where they live. But we have no idea what they look like. The search for the 8 missing lineages closest to animals #ProtistsonSky @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] youtu.be/i4uhEXw6G0c

The Magnificent 8

Great to see our paper on light-intensity dependent swimming patterns in #Chlamydomonas out now in Phys Rev Lett. as an Editors' suggestion! With a nice commentary by @[email protected]. Chlamy actively modulate the beat planes of their #cilia! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #protistsonsky

Happy Valentine’s Day 💘 20 years ago we fell for a lineage nobody was studying. Still in love. Still discovering. #ichthyosporeans #LoveIsInTheCell 🧬 #protistsonSky @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

The real drama of life happened "backstage" in the unicellular world. 🎭🧬 #protistsonSky Our postdoc Vika Shabardina is co-organizing this symposium with Annia (@[email protected]). Two brilliant minds leading the evocell way! Plus, a talk by @[email protected]. 👇

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Congrats again Alexander! (Not on bluesky) You can read about some of his work here in our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025... , with more to come! 🎉😏 #protistsonsky

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Thrilled to see choanoflagellates can glide! I think this provide further support to the stunning complexity of the unicellular ancestor of animals, as we have been proposing. Congrats @thibautbrunet.bsky.social ! very nice work. #AnimalOrigins #choanos #multicellularity #protistsOnSky

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