Tristan

I want to live in this!

Nuclei, food vacuoles, and more seem to circulate around here. They have rhythmic cytoplasmic streaming that reverses every few minutes, back and forth. If it finds something it likes, like an oat, the rhythmic streaming still happens but I assume with directional preference towards the oat!

Here is a myxomycete plasmodium that I isolated off a wet leaf onto the bottom of a vented flask. Realtime phase microscopy.
#ProtistsOnSky

More Vampyrella videos can be found on Ferry's website too! arcella.nl/vampyrella/

Memory from variability: Heritable short-term cellular memory emerges from stochastic biochemical reaction networks Cells exhibit a mysterious form of selective heritable short-term memory, influencing outcomes as diverse as cell fate decisions in embryos and environmental responses in cancer cells and bacteria. He...

Thrilled that the lab's first @hhmijanelia.bsky.social project is up on bioRxiv! Story behind the story to follow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I've been gone for awhile because bluesky was (is) banned in Mississippi :)

Now that I have a VPN, here is a timelapse of diatoms from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social pond!

#protistsonsky #protists

Awesome topics and speakers — this workshop looks like a dream!

Such a dream!

Here is a Centropyxis testate amoeba picking up a little rock with its pseudopod. Notice the pseudopod attachment point on the culture dish surface and the blebbing that happens there.
#amoebae #protists