Amazon rainforest fires are burning at a record rate - CNN cnn.com/2019/08/21/ame…

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…

How do abundant marine microbes maintain fast-adapting genomes in dilute open oceans? With "tycheposons" - mobile genetic elements that move around in viruses and vesicles, shuttling genes and remodeling genomic islands biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Starting this New Year with a preprint from great former postdoc Alessandro Mongera and other awesome former and present lab members: "Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as perceived by cells in vivo". biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Here is a short version... 🧵

Last work from my time in the Campàs Lab! While in Mongera et al. 2018 we analyzed the tissue mechanical properties relevant for morphogenesis, in this preview we describe the mechanical properties relevant for mechanosensation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint! Marine picocyanobacteria attach to and use chitin, a trait acquired at the root of this group. Integrated with other evidence this leads us to propose the “chitin raft hypothesis” for the rise of marine picocyanobacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new preprint is out! Feeling blessed for having worked and learned from so many amazing collaborators! Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy that our work on axis elongation via extracellular expansion has now been posted on bioRxiv. Big shout out to the amazing Arthur Michaut 🔬🐣🛠️! very thankful for the incredible team work! @PourquieOlivier Karine Guevorkian Soft Math Lab Serra group @ UC San Diego

So proud!!! Great work and cool cover!

Amazing paper from the Chisholm lab out in Cell! Congrats Guys! 🍾🎉

Remove academic age limits on ERC grants - Sign the Petition! chng.it/SdYyTCWr via Change.org

Exciting day & perfect timing! Our paper pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… came out just a few hours before my presentation at the inspiring #EESOrganism Symposium At the EMBL 🇩🇪 Feeling grateful for the opportunity and thankful for all the amazing collaborators involved!

Nice article on our paper! Spotlighted today on the MIT homepage mit.edu news.mit.edu/2023/ancestors…

Common single-celled plankton can attach to chitin—hard shell material arthropods shed in the sea. Researchers hypothesize that these plankton groups rafted on bits of chitin to colonize the open ocean 500 million years ago. In PNAS: ow.ly/A8rZ50OthHU

Yes we do! And we have reasons to believe this happened! Thank you for sharing! 🫶🏻

Though I share no common views with the current Italian government, today Italy takes the lead. Approval for genome-edited plants using #CRISPR has been granted. repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/0…

The chitin plot thickens! Check out our new preprint to find out which genes are involved in chitin degradation in Synechococcus! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Eons made an episode on our "chitin raft hypothesis" of how picocyanobacteria colonized ancient oceans youtube.com/watch?v=NOwbjO… Many thanks to the PBS Eons team! & thanks+congrats to all collaborators, esp Gio Capovilla the fearless!

📣 We received the #HFSP Research Grant Award 🎉 MariaAlmuedoCastillo Serra group @ UC San Diego Mechanical regulation of hidden embryonic boundaries #mechanics #zebrafish #epigenetics Stay tuned for 3 (!!!) postdoc positions across the three groups. UCL DMC2 CABD UC San Diego 1/2