RT @PhysRevResearch
Motility and self-organization of gliding Chlamydomonas populations, Sebastian Till, Florian Ebmeier, Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Marco G. Mazza, and Oliver Bäumchen @afragkopoulos @unibt @MarcoGMazza @mazza_lab @mpids @LboroScience #SoftMatter #Biophysics https://go.aps.org/3ji63lK
this is likely #bioconvection - upswimming of the motile organisms due to combination of light and negative gravitaxis, followed by sinking when the layer becomes too dense https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43421291.pdf
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RT @Eudorina_ch
ゴニウムのこれはどんな反応によるものなんだろうか?
振動が原因?
大きさ的にある程度数が増えてこないと観察が難しい現象 https://t.co/8SSniydktV
https://twitter.com/Eudorina_ch/status/1604756971760291840
RT @tinyscientist
#Coral zoomies!!
Look at the difference coral baby food does! 🪸🍼
The unfed larvae (left) are much slower & travel shorter distances than the fed larvae (right) - like mini Michael Phelps’!
This could have significant promise for reseeding reefs ☺️
@PureOceanFund @uts_c3 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604054602805940230
RT @softmatter
Front cover article:
Just published and #openaccess, Microswimmers in vortices: dynamics and trapping led by Ivan Tanasijević and Eric Lauga https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00907B
But perhaps microorganisms do!
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RT @GoreHrushikesh
This stick is of a Plant in the Himalayas called Garud Kashtha meaning Eagle Wood in Sanskrit; it is helical and moves against the flow of water horizontally or vertically; I wonder if plants use it for the transport of pollen, seeds, or migration?
https://twitter.com/GoreHrushikesh/status/1600479946887294976
RT @burnsajohn
The difference between building a house out of stuff you find laying around and forming one from materials that you made yourself for the purpose. Convergence in function, big difference in approach! #Protists
Cool - now finally a computer game we could get on board with - does it account for hydrodynamic interactions tho😅
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RT @OSTSenior
A sneak peak at Aggi's Tiny Friends. An educational game about microscopic ecosystems, where you customize a cell of your own to see what can survive. The videos by @JourneyToMicro where a huge help in getting the movement of cells right! @ParameciumP @ProtistologyUK #indiedev
https://twitter.com/OSTSenior/status/1599820271656894464
another day, another win for the mighty single-celled organism
#multicellularisoverrated
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RT @jam_and_germs
Single-celled organism, Loxophyllum, eats a multicellular rotifer! This is almost a 5 years old clip but I thought I could share it today!
https://twitter.com/jam_and_germs/status/1597244008891265024
Not nearly enough #protists and #cilia in this universe yet... let's rectify this with an inaugural edition of #CiliaSaturday 😍
Look at all its beautiful 'feet'... !
RT @DeepaHRajan
How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my first paper from my PhD with @WallaceUcsf, co-first-authored with @TMakushok! We discovered that gradual habituation in a cell population is due to step-like switches in single cells https://bit.ly/3GNg702
🧵1/n
RT @DJCohenEtAl
We’re ‘pumped’ to share new work using bioelectricity to inflate living organoids via what we call 'electro-inflation’: e-fields can program ion+water pumping!. W/power-trio @GawoonS, Isaac Breinyn, @almcalvo. See: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.22.517561v1. Vid=kidneyoid+1V/cm E-field. more soon!
ahh @JekelyLab is tooting at us from the other side!!
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RT @JekelyLab
Great paper: a microfluidics assay to encapsulate single cells to study long-term behaviour. @FGieLab @micromotility
Thread here:
https://bit.ly/3gGk5wy
Join us on the other side. Open, distributed, community driven, no ads, no AI feeding you, no random retweets, full control.
https://twitter.com/JekelyLab/status/1596067161180884992
Apparently the alga Mesostigma swims like 'falling leaves'...
Immediately checks YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjd8MQHPfwM
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RT @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9
かなりマイナーな霞ヶ浦のプランクトン。メソスティグマ(Mesostigma sp.)。陸上植物に近い系統の藻類で、ミカヅキモなどと同じストレプト植物門に属している(メソスティグマ藻綱)。オレンジ色の眼点と、細胞を取り囲む微細な鱗片が特徴。ひらひらと落葉が舞うように泳ぐよ。
https://twitter.com/a1AgqW93RTKPUD9/status/1595801234212261888