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Sea anemone MACPF proteins demonstrate an evolutionary transitional state between venomous and developmental functions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

1/3 This is going to be a #science tweet: This exciting project started in 2014 when we opened the lab, and finally it is posted today as a preprint. We found a family of pore-former toxins in #Nematostella that were recruited from #Venom to development biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/4 #science tweet: new #preprint from our lab. We show that double-stranded RNA, a viral pattern, promotes apoptosis in #Nematostella. This phenomenon is conserved from cnidarians to humans. This work was led by Twitterless Itamar Kozlovski and Adrian Jaimes-Becerra 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super cool work coming from our lab led by my very talented peers!

#Biology is so complicated, and experiments are so noisy and error-prone that it's almost unbelievable when something works EXACTLY as it should. Adrian Jaimes-Becerra deleted a toxin-encoding gene from the genome, and the proteomics (LFQ value) gave "0". The WT control gave "10^9" 🤯

1/2 Today we said goodbye to an amazing postdoc and a terrific human being, Joachim Surm. It's been a pleasure to have him as a team member for 5 years. His two most awesome papers are on the way (one of them was just accepted last week) and he participated in gazillion others.

Working with non model animals? Feeling depressed every time the genes from your favourite tardigrade/velvet worm/Gordian worm/whatever worm/sponge/jellyfish/[insert your fav invertebrate here] do not have any functional annotations? Keep calm and continue reading! 🧬🪱🪲1/10

1/2 It's finally out!!! Our paper about how #venom in a sea anemone shapes its interspecific interactions via chemical #ecology and growth and reproduction via evolutionary tradeoff is out in Science Advances. Huge congrats to Joachim Surm who led this! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵

Neste instante, sexta-feira, 19hs, nosso lab na UFU. Minha parceira, Profa Helena Maura Torezan Silingardi, acudindo trabalho de TCC. A aluna teve problemas, a orientadora acode. Exemplo!

“La señora le dijo al vigilante: ¡Se coló el joven con el negro!” El racismo golpea a los afrodescendientes en América Latina. Los afrodescendientes tienen dos veces más probabilidades de vivir en pobreza crónica que un blanco o un mestizo, según el Banco Mundial. Tienen

#VIDEO | Con un imponente leopardo, el artista santandereano Daniel Cuadros pintó la cancha de microfútbol del barrio La Cumbre en Floridablanca.

Sea Anemone Membrane Attack Complex/Perforin Superfamily Demonstrates an Evolutionary Transitional State between Venomous and Developmental Functions buff.ly/3wxs87b #science #evolution #biology #genome

It's finally out in PLOS Pathogens ! journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… Our paper shows that induction of Apoptosis by double-stranded RNA is an ancestral feature in most animal lineages! For detailed 🧵 see below.

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1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸 We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/3 🚨 new preprint from our lab! For many years, it was unclear if and how RNAi contributes to antiviral immunity in Cnidaria. Sure, it is a key component in flies and nematodes, but these are protostomes. Yael Admoni finally tested this with help from 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Functional characterization of immune cells in a cnidarian reveals an ancestral antiviral program biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

1/4 🚨 a brand new biorxiv preprint from the lab! We charcterized both transcriptionally, morphologically and functionally (phagocytosis) immune cells from #Nematostella! We are convinced that our data supports the existence of such specialized cells! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵