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
Kirsty Wan
boosted
My first #toot on the woolly mammoth thing. I was rubbish at twitter, I'll probably be worse on Mastodon...but here are some neurons as a way of a premature apology :)
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
Kirsty Wan
boosted
Great paper: a droplet #microfluidics assay to encapsulate single micron-sized algae to study long-term #behaviour.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/76519#fig4
by Bentley et al. gielenlab.com and @micromotility
A thread.
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
RT @CammannJ
I had the pleasure of providing some simulations to this wonderful paper. If you are interested in microbial motility go check it out. https://twitter.com/micromotility/status/1595508462607339531
RT @TheSquishyLab
This is a beautiful approach for studying microswimmer motility in unprecedented detail! 🦠 https://twitter.com/micromotility/status/1595508462607339531
RT @priti_atmakuru
Poke around On-demand, why not!!
We all move the same way, not a chance. There's a signature move for everyone ;) https://twitter.com/micromotility/status/1595508462607339531
RT @uniofexeHLS
1/3 The movement patterns of microscopic #algae can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health, thanks to new technology developed at the @UniofExeter. Read: https://bit.ly/3VkWOPv @LSI_Exeter #MicroOrganisms #OceanHealth
RT @JustinePinskey
Now out in eLife! Three-dimensional flagella structures from animals’ closest unicellular relatives, the Choanoflagellates https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78133.
Thanks to @AmirrasoulTava1 and @loonggui for helping this across the finish line, and to our reviewers for their great comments! https://twitter.com/JustinePinskey/status/1498145064417177600
RT @profpalombo
Can you see the 2nd #rainbow as well?
#physics #optics #scattering @UofE_Research
RT @mgfellow
Applied mathematics lectureship available @UniofExeter @UoE_Jobs
https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=377311bv27&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
RT @CellRaiser_
Our first preprint is out! Led by Rohith Rajasekaran (@born2raisecell): “A programmable reaction-diffusion system for spatiotemporal cell signaling circuit design”
A visually stunning toolkit to build cellular radios that probe or control cell biology.
RT @Pawel_Burkhardt
Ctenophores on the cover of @TrendsNeuro. So excited about this! Our article "Ctenophores and the evolutionary origin(s) of neurons" in press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.09.001. Beautiful photograph of ctenophores by @Alexandre4_Jan. Work supported by @Sars_Centre @UiB
Kirsty Wan
boosted
I'm very fortunate to be a co-organiser of "Dynamic Cell V", the latest in the Biochemical Society and BSCB meeting series showcasing the activity of living cells from all kingdoms of life. The details are: 17 to the 20 April 2023, Loughborough University (UK). Registration will open at https://biochemistry.org/events/dynamic-cell-v/
RT @Dmichiel1
I’m very much looking forward to the @BritSocRheology midwinter meeting on active, evolving and responsive systems. It will be a true pleasure and honour to share the stage with @micromotility, @CharlSchaef and other talented rheologists!
https://www.bsr.org.uk/events/copy-of-rheology-of-active-evolving-and-responsive-systems
RT @FryRsquared
A little piece I wrote for today’s i newspaper about why - I think - you don’t see more girls doing maths.
In short: it’s death by a thousand cuts.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/hannah-fry-few-women-maths-sexism-1963135
