So honored and excited to be included among this incredible network of scientists taking on tough and risky problems in basic science! Thanks @hypothesisfund and Devaki Bhaya for the support! Let’s go, choanoflagellates - the The FUNR Lab team is ready!

When I left this platform for a bit, I missed getting all of the papers, so I hypocritically reactivated my account. Since then I’ve mostly been a bench warmer here, but today I want to share some things from lab that we’ve been working on🧵

A surprise gift of « new curve crease origami » we call Lacrygami brought to us by a single cell (this is the first example of origami in a single cell)!! Will write a longer thread shortly describing our journey to discovery - in mean time, enjoy this beautiful cell.

I was really happy to write this perspective piece on two awesome preprints from Thibaut Brunet Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ and colleagues for Development journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

As our academic year closes, we’d like to congratulate our first lab alum, Nils Dormanns, on receiving his Master's from Leibniz Uni Hannover. Your excellent training with BeemelmannsLab was pivotal to the FUNR lab's early success! We wish you the very best on your scientific journey!

So honored that Nils Dormanns took the risk to spend time in my group, just when it was starting! Having excellent and kind scientists to work with during year 1 was so important, rewarding, and helpful! Congrats Nils and I can't wait to see what you accomplish next 🙌🏾

Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals. Our latest on using calcium imaging, to identify a novel behavior, which is synchronized in colonies. #choanoflagellates biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Jeffrey Colgren Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen bioRxiv

Congratulations María Nguyễn! Honored to be your advisor and put in some work 💪🏾 - let’s goooo!

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Last week I ran a workshop for high school students UMass Dartmouth, where we looked at pondwater on microscopes. Everyone then made a "Pondemon" card for an organism they identified, using pictures they took! Here's a small sample- printable set coming soon...

#ExM has transformed how we perceive the microbial diversity all around us. Some gorgeous critters from the EMBL Heidelberg pond - DNA red, centrin yellow, tubulin gray, images courtesy @F_Mikus. Bonus points if you can identify at least 4! Want more? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta Chandni Bhickta nicolas chiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn is finally out nature . Link⏩: nature.com/articles/s4158… Preprint⏩: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5)