Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦

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

This account will remain- but I'm disconnecting from this platform for so many obvious reasons. You can find me or follow our labs news at 🟦 sky

First study from the lab is out! We describe ApuRs, a new family of microbial rhodopsins unique from apusomonads. ApuRs represent the first anion-conducting rhodopsin channels that can be controlled by UV light, offering potential as new optogenetic tools. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Thrilled to share our lab's first evolutionary cytoskeleton study! We uncover two distinct FtsZ paralogs in Odinarchaeota—OdinFtsZ1 forms curved filaments, while OdinFtsZ2 assembles into spiral rings. A glimpse into tubulin evolution! #Eukaryogenesis #AsgardArchaea #cytoskeleton

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch! Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…  🧵(1/8)

Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale! (1/8) @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

New #LabPic since today! The lab is growing & will double by the end of this year, so there will be new faces soon🥳🎈. From Right to Left: @HiralABShah, Marine, @Baukjeje, @MargaridaMArauj & @LargowSandor.

Well if you are into Animal Origins, well you can't really miss this one out this year. And if you are not into Animal Origins, well, you still cannot missout on Roscoff and "THE" Kouignnettes. See you there.

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate legs or arms like frog tadpoles or salamanders? Our preprint tackles (part of) this BIG question with surprising findings about oxygen sensing 🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 🐭 vs 🐸 #evodevo #regenerative #cellbio 🧵👇

After a year filled with intense emotions: the worst being the ongoing slaughter back home & the best being my move to @UNIGEnews with👌🎉 discoveries. I wish you all an amazing 2025. May this year bring real justice, free from double standards. & yes i'll take spaghetti too.

We are finally back. 👌

A collaborative team from University of Geneva (@unige_en) and EMBL, has been awarded by the @MooreFound for a biodiversity research project. Led by @dudin_o and @Dey_Gautam, this initiative will develop a morphological atlas of microbial eukaryotes. 🦠 unige.ch/sciences/chimi…

Division of a Prymnesium faveolatum. NHS staining of expanded cells 😍 #ScienceArt #UExM #Mitosis

Where does pattern come from inside cells? in this revised preprint, @aralbright93 shows that regionalization of mRNA in a Stentor cell depends on dynein motors and the microtubule cytoskeleton doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

So happy for you mate. A new era for your lab !