Amelia Glazier · @ameliaglazier
39 followers · 33 posts · Server biologists.social

Here's the latest Research Highlight from Journal of Cell Science:
PIPkinA helps amoebas maintain social distancing
journals.biologists.com/jcs/ar

Do you find slime molds repulsive? It's ok, Dictyostelium discoideum cells can sometimes find their own neighbors pretty repulsive, too. Richard Gomer and colleagues show that PIPkinA is required for chemorepulsion in Dictyostelium away from AprA, which stimulates cell movement away from dense colony centers.

#amoebae #slimemolds #cellbiology

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Martin Herndl · @herndlm
102 followers · 432 posts · Server phpc.social

Service toot: if you do please use distilled or thoroughly cooked water to avoid brain eating . No, this is not a joke.

#nasalirrigation #amoebae

Last updated 2 years ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1286 followers · 2906 posts · Server qoto.org

"We show that a clonal population of soil amoebae invading a spatially structured bacterial matrix spontaneously differentiates into subpopulations with different types of movement. This strategy determines both the rates of bacteria consumption and the effectiveness of different bacterial antipredator defenses."

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210

#microbiology #amoebae

Last updated 2 years ago

James · @jmorri2
1 followers · 1 posts · Server mastodon.world

Hello. I am a professor at . My lab studies including African and pathogenic -living .

#clemson #parasitic #protozoa #trypanosomes #free #amoebae

Last updated 2 years ago

A throrough rewiew on (free-living heterotrophic ).

It encompases available information on their morphology, life history, cell organisation, ecology, diversity, systematics and evolution.

"On the Biology, Diversity and Evolution of Nucleariid Amoebae (Amorphea, Obazoa, Opisthokonta"
by Toni Gabaldón, Eckhard Völcker and GuifréTorruella

doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2022.

#nucleariids #amoebae #protists #MicrobialEukaryotes

Last updated 2 years ago

Tera Levin · @teralevin
204 followers · 33 posts · Server mstdn.science


Hi all, I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. My lab studies the of , especially what happens to before they get into humans. We particularly love host-microbe interactions involving like and other .

You can learn more on our lab website teralevinlab.com

I also tend to post nature photos and advice for trainees about navigating science!

#introduction #evolution #bacteria #pathogens #microeukaryotes #amoebae #protists #noxp

Last updated 2 years ago

Phys.org · @physorg_bot
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