Please begin preparing and sending your poster abstracts for this summers virtual ciliate research conference! The conference will be held July 23rd - 25th at 9 am to 12 pm EST. This virtual conference will have a selection of invited speakers who will be contacted directly and posters for anyone who would like to present! Poster presenters will be able to submit their abstracts in the following research focus areas: Motility (cilia, basal bodies, and flagella); Cell biology; Evolutionary biology; Gene expression; Developmental genomic rearrangement; and Developing undergraduate research. Prizes will be awarded to the best undergraduate and graduate student 

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Hi ciliate community!

I'm a graduate student in Kathy Collins' lab at Berkeley, and we are
looking for strains of T. thermophila lacking the group I intron. Does
anyone have strains of this sort they'd be willing to share?

Thanks for your help!

Best,
Connor

I think that I may have asked this previously but it was some time ago so it is time to check again. Has anyone done CLIP or PAR CLIP in Tetrahymena and if so, would you be willing to share your protocol?

Thank you.

Ron

Dr. Ronald E. Pearlman [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Past President and Advisor 

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Hello Everyone,
I am designing a new lab for our introductory cell and molecular biology
lab. Cells with a slower doubling time than T. thermophila are easier to
maintain, so I am going to try *Paramecium*. Does anyone have an axenic
culture of *P. tetraurelia *to share?
Thank you,
Marcella

I need to communicate with her, but have lost contact with her.

From my iPhone X, WhatsApp
Italy 39-349-056-0727
USA 01-801-448-5822
Skype name=gherrick
Call *free* from UT to 801-938-4583
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Hi Ciliate Community,

I am currently on the hunt for various phagocytosis-deficient lines of Tetrahymena (T. thermophila or other). I have the heat-sensitive NP-1 line originally made by Eduardo Orias and have ordered the TtVPS13A knockout line (Haresha S. Samaranayake et al.) from the Tetrahymena Stock Center. But I was wondering if anyone else has any similar lines they would be willing to share. 

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Hi Everyone,

There is just 1 week left to register for the 2024 Midwest Protozoology
Society meeting being held April 6th at Knox College in Galesburg,
Illinois! If you are in the area, it is a great meeting to bring trainees
and learn about some of the cool work being done in the region or present
their own. Whether you are from the region, or from outside the region but
planning a trip to the zone of totality for the 2024 eclipse, we would love
to see you and hear about your work! 

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Dear Colleagues,

As one of the collection co-editors "*Feature Papers in Microbial Biology*",
I would like to announce the possibility of collaborating in this
collection with an article if you consider it appropriate. As you can see
in the attached PDF it is open to manuscripts concerning any kind of
microorganisms (including protists) and on a wide variety of potential
topics (genetics, ecology, physiology, structure, molecular biology,
biotechnology, omics, etc.).
Anyone interested in contributing a manuscript, please let me know.
Thanks in advance. 

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Has anyone experimented with TurboID for proximity labeling in Tetrahymena?

Thanks very much
Aaron

Aaron Turkewitz
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The University of Chicago

Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce that the 2024 Midwest Protozoology Society meeting
will be held on *Saturday April 6th at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.*

For those in the region, this is a great opportunity for undergraduate
students to present their work in a poster or talk, meet with colleagues,
and also hear about great research on ciliates and other protists. 

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https://apply.interfolio.com/140105

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
one-year visiting position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning
July 1, 2024. We seek candidates with expertise in cellular and molecular
biology to contribute to our core offerings in this area, in consultation
with the department. The courses may also contribute to interdisciplinary
programs in Neuroscience, or Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB). We
are seeking candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching or
working with broadly diverse student populations. Your cover letter should
address the ways in which you would further the College's goals of
enhancing the 

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Hello Everyone,
We will be having a short virtual Ciliate Molecular Biology meeting this
summer highlighting the research of junior scientists, including late
graduate students, postdocs, researchers new to ciliates and non-tenured
faculty. Please post, or forward the announcement below to all who may
be interested. A call for speakers and posters will be sent out in the
coming months. 

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Dear All,

Josef did say your community is super friendly... but I had no idea how
much it is. You have been already so welcoming! Thanks!

Here is the story:

I decided to grow T. thermophila in a vegetarian media (NEFF with
Peptone from Soy) (After all, Tetra has to arrive to the 21st century
;-) ). After a couple of generations, when we prepare them for mating in
Starvation media some of them explode and the others will gather around
and cannibalize the dead cells. If this happens, we know automatically
that mating will not occur at all. I 

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Dear Tetrahymena community,

Prof. Josef Loidl gave me this address. He told me that you might be
able to help me with a weird behavior we are observing with our
Tetrahymena thermophila strains.

Since it is my first tome using a e-mail address as a forum, I will
greatly appreciate if someone can explain how this works ;-) 

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Dear ciliate researchers,

We are offering a PhD studentship in hormonal biosynthesis and evolution in Tetrahymena. The application deadline is on January 2, 2024.

https://www.alga.cz/UserFiles/mstefanova/files/2023_PhD_molecular_biology_v1_EH(1).pdf

Please forward to whoever may be interested in this.

Thank you,

Jan

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Jan Janouskovec
Group leader.
Institute of Microbiology, Trebon, Czech Republic
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: https://www.alga.cz/

Has anyone done iCLIP in Tetrahymena and has a protocol that works that they are willing to share? I may have missed something but I have not found anything published for Tetrahymena.

Thank you.

Ron

Dr. Ronald E. Pearlman [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Past President and Advisor

Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIS)

University Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar 

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Hi ciliate colleagues,

I am looking to replenish my supply of gold particles, and had ordered the ones available through Seashell Technologies back in 2015, but it looks like this company is no longer running.

Would anyone mind sharing with me where and under what catalog number they get their gold particles for making Tetrahymena transformants via the gene gun/biolistics? 

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Hi ASCB going ciliate community,

I hope everyone is doing well this year. The ASCB meeting is in Boston and I would like to organize a gathering for all of our community that are attending. I am aiming for Monday the 4th around 12:30. If you, or any of your students/postdocs, would like to attend please fill out the following Google form or email me at [log in to unmask] no later than Monday the 27th of November so I can secure a lunch spot. 

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Dear colleagues of the ciliate community,

The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (located in
Gif-sur-Yvette, France) is currently seeking new group leaders for its
Department of Genome Biology. The call is open to all relevant topics,
with a particular emphasis on RNA biology, chromatin organization,
genome stability, and gene expression. The application deadline is
January 15th, 2024. 

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Dear ciliate biologists,

We would like to invite you to contribute your manuscripts to the Special
Issue *“**Diversity, Ecology and Genetics of Ciliates*” announced by*
'Diversity' (MDPI)*. We are the guest editors of this special issue (
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/03465W3H94).
Diversity (Impact
Factor 2.4, ranking Q2 in JCR) is a fully open access journal of MDPI. The
review process is quick and professional, and the publication time, if the
article is accepted, aims to be within 1-3 months after submission. 

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Dear Ciliate Community Members,

I received an email from a recently launched journal from the Frontiers series, this one is called, "Frontiers in Epigenetics and Epigenomics."

They are putting up a collection, Current Insights in Epigenetics and Epigenomics. Please find the information in the email below.

I know we have had special issues, as in the Journal Microorganisms, edited by Cristina Miceli, Adriana Vallesi and Ron Pearlman in 2022, then we had another special issue in Journal Genes in 2019. This is not specific to ciliate biology, so I feel there should be a representation of the ciliate community. 

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Colleagues: Many of you are aware that we have been working on a www based application to identify and analyze protein/protein interactions, common domains in proteins, and other things. The application is called TetraMania and it was developed in collaboration with colleagues at University of Toronto who developed GeneMania for similar analysis with yeast and now supporting a number of other organisms. TetraMania is free standing and not part of the GeneMania application. The most recent update of GeneMania, a 2018 publication is attached fyi. 

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Hello Ciliate Community,
Seeing many of you in France after such a long time was terrific. This
email is a follow-up to some questions. If you have no interest in the *T.
thermophila* RNAseq cell cycle data, you can stop reading now. No offense
taken.
A few of you had questions about where to find the cell cycle paper and
data. The paper can be found at
https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E22-08-0326. There is an
incorrect accession number for the raw data which we are tending to. The
correct NCBI GEO accession number for the raw data is GSE209619, or you can
search for 

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Dear Colleagues,
I regret to inform you that our valued former colleague Hans Lipps has passed away. I traveled to Tübingen today to visit him and explore the Paleolithic caves together, as we had planned last fall. However, I received the sad news that Hans has been in the hospital for several days. Despite his condition, I had hoped to visit him if possible. Unfortunately, I just received the sad news that Hans Lipps passed away yesterday.
Hans Lipps was a highly respected member of our scientific community and a mentor to many. His unexpected death leaves a huge void 

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Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology Community,

We are looking forward to seeing you all either in person or online in France at the end of June.

In preparation for the upcoming and future Ciliate Molecular Biology meetings, the Ciliate Advisory Board is asking for your feedback:

We have three questions/sections to determine your:
1) interest in future meeting attendance based on geographic location
2) interest in hosting/organizing the 2025 Ciliate Molecular Biology meeting
3) nominations (self and others) for Ciliate Advisory Board membership 

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Dear colleagues,

My laboratory at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish
Academy of Sciences in Warsaw is looking for a candidate for a 3-year
postdoctoral fellowship (can be started immediately or by arrangement) and
a candidate for a 4-year doctoral program (starting in October 2023) to
study non-coding transcription in Paramecium tetraurelia. 

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Dear Colleagues:
As many of you know, I retired three years ago, but have maintained a small lab since that time. The lab has allowed me to maintain live cultures of Euplotes crassus, frozen stocks of Tetrahymena thermophila, and reagents and materials generated during my past research.

I have decided to stop my laboratory operation effective September 1 of this year. If anyone is interested in ciliate strains, materials, or items related to culturing ciliates, please contact me. I will do my best to accommodate any requests. 

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Hello,

I've been added to this listserve thanks to the kindness of Dr. Jacek Gaertig, and hope that one or more of you can help me and my colleagues out with a potentially problematic ciliate affecting Florida Keys coral recruits from broodstock spawned in captivity.

I am an aquatic veterinarian/ faculty at the University of Florida, based in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, working with the Coral Rescue project, an Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) project under the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's purview. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (see: https://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/stony_coral_tissue_loss_disease/) has caused significant mortalities 

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Dear Colleagues,

For those of you who wish to present your work in the Ciliate Molecular Biology 2023 Meeting but are too busy to prepare an abstract in a few days, we have decided to extend the deadlines for registration and abstract submission.

Now the new deadline for early bird registration and abstract submission is April 25th, 2023 

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Dear Ciliate Folks,

This is just a reminder that the early-bird registration dead line for the Ciliate Molecular Biology 2023 meeting is in two weeks (April 15). We will have an exciting program in a lovely city! In case you haven’t checked out the meeting website yet, please visit https://www.ciliate-meeting-2023.com/en/ and consider joining the meeting. 

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Dear colleagues,

The full job description can be found here:
https://apply.interfolio.com/122568

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
Laboratory Coordinator position, beginning June 1st 2023. We seek
candidates to teach two biology laboratory sections per year, order
supplies and track the departmental budget, help to maintain general
departmental facilities and equipment, serve as the departmental chemical
hygiene officer, and assist with other departmental functions. Your cover
letter should address your teaching experience and area(s) of expertise in
Biology, record-keeping experience, attention to detail, and a demonstrated
ability and willingness to be proactive and learn new skills. Equivalent
 

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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the registration website for the Ciliate Molecular Biology 2023 Meeting is now open (https://www.ciliate-meeting-2023.com/en/). Please spread the information. The early registration and abstract submission deadline is April 15 (very soon!). So, please start your registration process and abstract preparation as soon as possible. Also, please start arranging your travels and hotels at your earliest convenience (to save your travel cost). Please note that travels and accommodations are NOT included in the registration. 

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Dear Sir or Madame,

My Email address has changed.

Currently I am on your email distribution list with the Email-address:
[log in to unmask]

I would like to stay on the mailing list and would appreciate it if you
would change the address and contact me in the future under the

new address: [log in to unmask]

Many thanks in advance and best regards 

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Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce that the Midwest Protozoology Society will return
to having annual meetings! Naomi has (at least temporarily) passed me the
hosting torch and this year, in person, the meeting will be held on *Saturday
April 22nd at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.*

For those in the region, this is a great opportunity for undergraduate
students to present their work in a poster or talk, meet with colleagues,
and also hear about great research on ciliates and other protists. 

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https://apply.interfolio.com/121085

Description

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
visiting position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1,
2023. This is a one-year position with the potential for a one-year
renewal. We seek candidates to teach Ecology with an associated lab,
Introductory Biology, and related courses. We are seeking candidates who
can demonstrate their experience in teaching or working with diverse
student populations. Your cover letter should address the ways in which you
would further the College's goal of building a diverse and inclusive
educational environment. 

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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the organizers, we are sending you the first announcement of the Ciliate Molecular Biology 2023 Meeting which will be held from June 26 to 29, 2023 in Montpellier, France. This will be a long-awaited opportunity to get together in person and we hope that many of you will attend the meeting on site. It will be also possible to join the meeting remotely, as we will organize the meeting with a hybrid format. You can find the list of confirmed invited speakers, the latest draft program, and other information in the attached pdf. Please spread 

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Dear all,

Would you help me to change my email address as [log in to unmask] ?

Best regards

Prof.Dr.Muhittin Arslanyolu

Hi Everyone,

Sylvia Fromherz, from Saginaw Valley State University asked me to let you all know that they are hiring a Molecular Biologist/Geneticist for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. They would welcome a ciliate biologist to their department as Sylvia has recently begun some ciliate related research in her own lab! The job posting is here: 

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Dear colleagues,

My Department at Western Washington University offers a research Masters of Science degree in Biology and research labs that are accepting students are listed in the attachment (this includes my and Nick Galati’s labs, where Tetrahymena is being used as a model system!). Please share with any potentially interested students you know or are in your networks. 

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Dear all,

I am writing to ask you to share your experiences on transformation of Tetrahymena cells by electroporation.

I was frequently asked by non-Tetrahymena researchers that why we use biolistic transformation instead of electroporation, and I always told them that we can use electroporation only for some limited types of genetic manipulation because electro-transformation somehow only works with cells at late conjugation stages (= the new macronucleus) in Tetrahymena. 

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Hi ASCB going ciliate community,

I hope everyone is doing well and the transition to a world living with COVID is as good as it can be. The ASCB meeting is back in person this year and I would like to organize a gathering for all of our community that are attending. If you, or any of your students/postdocs, would like to attend please fill out the following Google form or email me at [log in to unmask] no later than Monday the 14th of November so I can secure a lunch spot. 

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Hi colleagues,

I’m curious if anyone has experience (either positive or negative) in using leptomycin B as a potential nuclear export inhibitor in Tetrahymena? Any leads would be welcome!

with thanks in advance,
Suzanne

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Suzanne R Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Biology Department
Western Washington University
Website: biology.wwu.edu/people/lees65<http://biology.wwu.edu/people/lees65>

Dear all: The deadline for submission of manuscripts to the special ciliate issue of Microorganisms was September 30, 2022. A number of colleagues have informed us that they have manuscripts in preparation but are unable to complete and submit them by September 30.

We have been able to get agreement from the publisher to extend the deadline for submissions to November 30, 2022. We hope that some of you will be able to meet this deadline and submit a manuscript by November 30. There is no limit to the number of manuscripts that we can accept. Criteria for acceptance are 

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Greetings from India!!

In commemoration of Centenary Celebrations of University of Delhi, Delhi, India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and Maitreyi College, in collaboration with INSCR (Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research) are organizing an online 3rd “International Symposium on Ciliate Biology 2022 (ISCB 2022)” on November 08, 2022.

The symposium will focus on several aspects of ciliates such as their diversity, ecology, evolution, systematics, genomics, epigenetics, barcoding, proteomics, ciliates and industry, ciliates as model organisms in UG teaching and in research. 

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Hello everyone,

I am forwarding this on behalf of James Letts here at UC Davis. Hopefully you saw James talk about this work at last summer's on-line ciliate meeting

Best,

Mark

Dear ciliate community,
This year's two new Ciliate Advisory Board members are *Laura Landweber *and
*Shan Gao*. Their 3-year terms begin next month, and we will reach out to
them to schedule a CAB zoom meeting soon. We extend a big thank you to each
of our five outstanding candidates for volunteering, and to everyone for
participating in the elections - every vote mattered! 

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Dear Colleagues,

A second open search in my Dept may be of interest to you or those you know:

The Biology Department in the College of Science and Engineering has approximately 30 faculty whose expertise spans a broad range of biological disciplines. The department, college, and university are devoted to creating an equitable environment for students and staff and are engaged in the process of addressing institutional racism and other oppressive biases. We especially encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from historically excluded backgrounds and underrepresented experiences. 

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Hello all

We have five candidates for two slots on the Ciliate Advisory Board. Thank you to all candidates for their dedication to our community!

Please click on the below link to place your vote.
https://forms.gle/4DxnU4Qu7CVfVeq97

A few notes:
-Please vote only once. Emails are registered to limit replicate voting. When tallying votes, we will not associate your email with your votes.
-Please vote for only two candidates.
-Voting will close at midnight (eastern) on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. Please vote now. 

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Dear Ciliate community,

First of all, thank you to everyone who was able to attend our virtual
meeting last week on 7/27. It was exciting to interact with all of you and
hear about your new research during the talks, posters, and breakout room
chats. There was also a lot of excitement about our upcoming in-person
meeting next year in France, scheduled for June 25th-29th in 2023
(organized by Kaz Mochizuki, Brian Bayless, Shan Gao, and Lydia Bright).
Save the date! 

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Dear colleagues,

So great to see many of you today at the Ciliate Molecular Biology meeting, and looking forward to future meetings with this terrific community.

In case there are job seekers out there who are looking for a tenure track faculty position at a primarily undergraduate institution (with some Masters students) in the US, please see and/or share this: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=499995&fbclid=IwAR14qI3r-lyrvI0kDfa764RlmqymzErsKAu-l6r-e31njnPiACRYQGh4Wv0. 

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Dear Colleagues: This is an update to the Special Issue on Ciliates for the Journal Microorganisms that Cristina Miceli, Adriana Vallesi, and I are co-editing. We have a good number of manuscripts already received and published or in process for this issue. The original date for submission was December 31, 2021. We have however recently worked with the publishers and have arranged for the submission deadline to be moved to September 30, 2022. We have received a number of commitments for submissions by this date. This note is to provide updated information and to encourage colleagues to submit strong research 

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Greetings all, i'd be grateful if you could share the message below as I am
looking to hire two postdocs in the coming months.

Hi Ciliate Community,

Could you please share the following job ad link and summary to anyone you think may be interested in teaching a CURE course (5-6 sections) for Fall 2022 at University of Colorado Boulder? This is a temporary, 1 semester full-time position. The job requirement requests a PhD, but we can be flexible if someone has teaching experience but not a PhD. 

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Dear Ciliate Community

We are pleased to announce a (mostly solidified!) schedule for the 2022 Virtual Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting that will occur on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 from 9:00a-2:00p (EASTERN TIME).

REGISTRATION

Why not, register right now! Please do not wait.

REGISTER HERE<https://forms.gle/YbFTkLdpQaQY5Xp5A> (or copy URL into Browser: https://forms.gle/YbFTkLdpQaQY5Xp5A)

Registration by participants allows us to report our attendance for future meeting funding. 

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Dear All,

Good news:  The deadline for this issue has been moved back to November 30!

I am writing to invite you to contribute an article to a special issue
of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607, IF 4.152) on /Paramecium/ as a modern
model system. My purpose here is to specifically showcase /Paramecium/
so that new scientists and granting agencies will use and support this
system. I very much hope that you will participate with a short article
or short review, or whatever you would like to contribute to make
visible our /Paramecium/ community. 

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Dear Colleagues,

I use the “Why Ciliates?” video that was produced several years ago to engage my students and highlight our model system on my website, but was surprised to find today that the video is no longer accessible on Vimeo, where it was hosted for the longest time. Does anyone have a copy of the video file itself that I might use for my website to replace the broken link? 

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Hello Ciliate Community,

The Ciliate Advisory Board (Mireille, Marcella, Jacek, Sabrice, Chad, and Sean) would like to invite everyone to attend this summer's 2022 Virtual Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting - "the last one, right?". This will occur on July 27, 2022. Details are in the works and will be communicated to you all very soon. We intend to have a select number of talks, as many posters as everyone can dream up, and a community meeting. Please mark your calendars. 

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Hello fellow ciliate researchers,
Thanks to nice phylogeny work by Becky Zufall, we can say that we have
isolated what is a newly identified Tetrahymena species! I am looking for a
collaborator who has the technical ability to image ciliate cysts and has
time to complete the imaging in the immediate future. If you know how the
cysts should be prepared, but do not have time right now, any suggestions
or protocols would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Marcella

Dear All,

I am writing to invite you to contribute an article to a special edition
of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607, IF 4.152) on /Paramecium/ as a modern
model system. I very much hope that you will participate with a short
article or short review, or whatever you would like to contribute.  It
is very important to re-create or reinforce our research communities
that have been supportive of our work on /Paramecium/, especially as we
emerge from working separately during the pandemic. I have benefited
personally from colleagues and want to pay back to them and pay forward
to new investigators. 

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Dear ciliate community,

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in Tetrahymena genetics at the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Republic (Centre Algatech in Trebon). Our group is studying the metabolism in mitochondria and chloroplasts in a variety of protistan models: https://www.alga.cz/en/c-874-jan-janouskovec-s-group.html. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on understanding mitochondrial phospholipid synthesis in Tetrahymena thermophila by using subcellular protein localization, genetic knockout, subcellular fractionation, stable isotope labelling, and other methods. We are looking for someone with previous experience in Tetrahymena genetics, an outgoing personality and passion for cell biology. 

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Dear Ciliate Research Community.

The Tetrahymena Stock Center is in the process of transitioning from its original home at Cornell University to its future home at Washington University in St. Louis. During this transition over the next few months, we aim to maintain services, but anticipate possible delays in fulfilling requests. We would like to thank the community for their patience and continuing support during the transition. 

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https://apply.interfolio.com/102045

Visiting Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Hamilton College: Hamilton College Faculty
Location
Clinton, NY
Open Date

Jan 28, 2022
Description

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
one-year position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, beginning
July 1, 2022. We seek candidates to teach a lecture + lab course in
Microbiology, and three additional lecture or lab teaching credits that
complement the department's offerings. These may include: an introductory
biology lecture course (1 credit), a lecture + lab course (2 credits), a
non-majors lecture course (1 credit), an upper-level seminar (1 credit), or
supervision of senior 

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https://dossier.interfolio.com/apply/102044

Assistant Professor of Instruction in Microscopy
Hamilton College: Hamilton College Faculty
Location
Clinton, NY
Open Date

Jan 28, 2022
Description

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
continuing non-tenure-track faculty position in microscopy, at the rank of
Assistant Professor of Instruction, beginning July 1, 2022. The successful
applicant will support the undergraduate research programs of departments
in the Taylor Science Center that use the Microscopy and Imaging Facility
(MIF) and teach the equivalent of 3–4 courses per year that integrate
microscopy into the Biology curriculum (including contributions to Biology
lab courses) and that demonstrate the principles 

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Dear Colleagues, I am sending the last call inviting you to contribute to the Special Issue of  Diversity “Integrated Taxonomy of Protists: Morphology, Genes, and Symbionts” ( https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/taxonomy_protists ) which we guest edit with Dr. Martina Schrallhammer. The official deadline for submission of the provisional title, list of authors and abstract to the Special Issue is  January 31, 2022 , however, the manuscript submission link will be kept open till March 31, 2022 . This Special Issue aims to highlight the studies that address the diversity of protists, provide integrative characterization of protist species using genetic markers or genomic data, or describe 

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Dear All

I am asking all of you who are interested in promoting your work on
/Paramecium/ to consider publication in the special issue of
Microorganisms by MDPI.  Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes and stay well!
Judith Van Houten

--
Judith Van Houten, PhD
University Distinguished Professor Emerita

Hi all,

I'm starting a project to understand how encystment protects protists from
harsh environments. One of the organisms that interests me is tetrahymena
rostrata. Do you know where I might acquire this species in a reasonable
time frame? ATCC has it, but it would take 3 months to ship. I'm hoping to
get started sooner. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! I'm also
open to suggestions for protists that undergo fast encystment and
excystment ( within a period of 24 hours). Thank you and have a great
weekend! 

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Hello ciliate colleagues,

I would like to switch my cell bio lab from C. elegans GFP lines to Tetrahymena this year, and I need your help. We usually have each student analyze a C. elegans GFP-tagged line of 'their own', characterizing it through Westerns, fractionation, Real-Time PCR, and confocal microscopy.

Does anyone have any GFP-tagged Tetrahymena cells up and running in their lab that they would be willing to share during this coming semester? We are happy to pay the cost of shipping them to the Hudson Valley. 

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Dear Ciliate Colleagues,

I am actively recruiting for a Masters student in Biology who might be interested in joining my research program. This position would be a good fit for a student who is graduating this year with a bachelors degree, or recently graduated in the past couple years, and seeking research experience within a formal program but not yet ready for a PhD program. Ideal candidates should have some biology or chemistry lab experience involving wet lab experiments or computational experience in sequence analysis or microscopy image analysis, but prior formal research experience is not required. 

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Dear Ciliate Community Members,

If some of you have any experience in removing ribosomal RNAs from Tetrahymena total RNA using Ribo-Zero or its related methods, could you share your experience with me? I want to sequence non-poly(A) RNAs so oligo(dT)-based enrichment does not work for my purpose. Any information from your successful and/or unsuccessful experience would be useful for me. 

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Dear colleagues,

My Department is hiring for two new faculty at the Assistant Professor level this year; see advertisement and links below. In addition to two colleagues with Tetrahymena expertise (myself and Dr. Nick Galati), our faculty also include other individuals who study other ciliates and protists, including Dr. Robin Kodner and Dr. Brady Olson. I would love to see applications from more ciliate folks. Happy to answer any questions about the positions and my institution. 

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Dear ciliate molecular biology community,
TetraGenetics an AbCellera company has 1 position open for a Ph.D. level scientist with Tetrahymena experience (scientists with experience in genetics of other ciliates will also be considered). TetraGenetics is located in Boston, MA area, and scientists from other states and countries are encouraged to apply. This is a great opportunity to join a drug discovery company in order to contribute to developing new medicines.
Please find the position description attached. I would appreciate if you could share this information with graduate students and postdocs who may be interested in joining Genetics group at TetraGenetics. 

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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to tell you that the members of my lab and I have been invited to submit an article tentatively entitled "New Insights from Ciliates" for Volume 38 of the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. Our manuscript is due in January.

We welcome your input and learning about your recent work. Please send me your thoughts and links to your recent papers or manuscripts at bioRxiv to: 

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My department is hiring in Evolution and/or Ecology with emphasis on Climate Change. It’s a great department, and I’m happy to talk to anyone about it.

-Becky

Faculty Position in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Houston

The Ecology and Evolution Division of the Department of Biology
and Biochemistry at the University of Houston invites applications
for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant
Professor. Applicants with research interests and a record of
accomplishment in the ecological or evolutionary impacts of climate change
are encouraged to apply. We welcome applicants using any approach to
answer questions in 

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Dear ciliate colleagues,

In attending an NSF funding workshop today, I learned of an exciting new funding mechanism for new PIs at primarily undergraduate institutions (must be within 3 years of appointment by proposal submission date). The solicitation was just approved and will be updated soon, so worth keeping an eye on this page for more on eligibility: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/building-research-capacity-new-faculty-biology-brc-bio. Full proposals are due in Jan and June. 

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Dear colleagues,

A three-year postdoctoral position is open in my lab to work on
programmed genome rearrangements in Paramecium (https://bit.ly/3zEEwh7).

Would you please forward the attached announcement to anyone you think
may be interested?

Best regards,

Mireille Bétermier

--

Dear colleagues, please help share the news to whoever may be interested in
our open position. Thanks.

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
tenure-track position in the area of animal physiology, at the rank of
Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2022. Ph.D. and teaching experience
required; post-doctoral research preferred. The teaching load for this
position is four courses during the first year and five courses thereafter.
The successful applicant will teach a lab course in vertebrate physiology,
a course in a related sub-discipline (e.g. immunology, endocrinology),
participate in our introductory biology program, and supervise senior
thesis 

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Dear Prof./ Dr/ Researcher/ Student

Hope this mail finds you well!

We are very pleased to invite your esteemed institute to participate in the 6th Annual International eConference of International Network of Soil Contamination Research-INSCR 2021 on “MICROBES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” being organized in association with Department of Zoology, University of Delhi , Acharya Narendra Dev College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Gargi College, Kirori Mal College, Maitreyi College, Ramjas College, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi (DU), PG Department of Zoology, Magadh University, C.M.P. College, Allahabad University & Phixgen Pvt. Ltd, from 15th to 18th November 2021. 

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Dear colleagues,

Please share this with your networks and anyone who might be interested or know of someone who might be interested. Expertise in discovery proteomics and metabolomics would be especially welcome.

Many thanks for your attention and help!
Suzanne

Hello All,

I am writing to inquire about the 3-well depression slides which we normally use for paramecium cultures. Is anyone interested in buying some? I contacted the Polish company and they quoted a discount price of 6 Euros per slide and after taxes, it is coming out to be approximately 7.4 Euros per slide. This does not include shipping and handling to India, so I guess the cost will go upto 8.5 or may be 9 Euros per slide. 

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Hello ciliate colleagues
A member of my lab has become interested in studying the contractile vacuole in Tetrahymena. At this early point in the work, identifying some additional markers could be immensely useful. I’m wondering if any of you might have antibodies that strongly label the contractile vacuole, that you might be willing to share? (Of course if they’re commercially available, we can purchase them.)
Thanks very much
Aaron 

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I would like to make the membership aware of an exhibition currently running at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. Entitled “ScienceFriction”, it is designed in part to honor the contributions of our late colleague Lynn Margulis and her ideas on symbiosis in eukaryote evolution.
An Ashland (Oregon) artist, Shoshanah Dubiner, created a painting entitled “Endosymbiosis” on this subject, featuring a number of protists, fanciful and realistic (included in the pdf below). Shoshanah was asked to attend the memorial symposium for Lynn at UMass Amherst in March of 2012 with her painting.
It turns out that animators associated with 

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Hello all

We are pleased to announce that the schedule for the upcoming Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting is posted on the website.
https://ciliates2020.wixsite.com/website

A Zoom link that will host both talks and synchronous poster sessions will be provided soon. Posters will also be available asynchronously through Confex and that information will also be provided by Confex soon. 

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology community:

The members of the Ciliate Advisory Board are pleased to announce the "2021 Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting" to be held between July 19th-23rd, 2021. While we will continue the virtual format for 2021, we anticipate holding an in-person meeting in 2022. As was the case last year, this 2021 meeting will be free for all attendees! 

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Dear Colleagues:

I would be grateful if you could forward the information about a new position to individuals who may be interested in joining our group.

A postdoctoral position is available in our laboratory at the University of Georgia to study cytoskeletal organelle biogenesis and intracellular pattern formation in Tetrahymena. The project will involve forward genetic approaches (suppressor screens), bioinformatics, genome editing and advanced microscopy. 

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Dear colleagues,

The director of our microscopy and imaging facility is retiring and we are
looking for someone who knows how to maintain (ideally) both an SEM and
confocal microscope (detailed see below). I greatly appreciate if you can
help spread the words and we intend to start reviewing candidates in two
weeks.
Job link: https://apply.interfolio.com/88170 

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology community:

The members of the Ciliate Advisory Board are pleased to announce the "2021 Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting" to be held between July 19th-23rd, 2021. While we will continue the virtual format for 2021, we anticipate holding an in-person meeting in 2022. As was the case last year, this 2021 meeting will be free for all attendees! 

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After a year-long battle against pancreatic cancer, Ian Gibson passed at home last friday. He is survived by his wife Liz and daughters Helen and Dominique. if you wish to send condolences, Liz's email is [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
below are some press releases on Ian's passing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-56695263
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tributes-to-former-norwich-north-mp-ian-gibson-7887274
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-04-10/former-norwich-north-mp-dr-ian-gibson-has-died

We are hiring a one-year visiting faculty because a colleague will be on
sabbatical leave. (https://apply.interfolio.com/85348)

Description

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a
one-year position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, beginning
July 1, 2021. We seek candidates to teach a lecture/lab course on
Developmental Biology, an introductory biology course, and two additional
course credits as complements to the department's offerings. These may
include: a lecture/lab course, a non-majors lecture course, an upper-level
seminar, or supervision of senior thesis research. We are seeking
candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching or working with
diverse 

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Dear all,

Our institute (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell- I2BC) is
seeking to recruit junior and mid-career group leaders in the field of
cell biology.

If you are interested, find below the announcement

https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/group-leaders-institute-of-integrative-biology-of-the-cell-i2bc-736371
<https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/group-leaders-institute-of-integrative-biology-of-the-cell-i2bc-736371>

Best regards

Anne-Marie Tassin

--
Anne-Marie Tassin
Institut de Biologie intégrative de la cellule
UMR 9198,
Avenue de la Terrasse
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex,
France
Tel +33 (0)169823213
Fax +33 (0)169823181

Dear Fellow Ciliate Nerds,
Today I set up an account with the US Social Security Administration and was asked to provide a username that does not include my name. Searching for an obscure, but easy to remember word, I chose Tetrahymena. I was surprised to learn that this username is already in use. Next, I tried thermophila. Also already in use. I won’t tell you how far down the nerd rabbit hole I had to go to find a unique ciliate username. I guess this says something about our community. Wishing you all the best.
Bob

Does anyone have some Tetrahymena vorax strain V2S that they could share with me?

Todd Hennessey
Dept. of Biological Sciences
H610 Hochstetter
University at Buffalo
Amherst NY 14260
716 645 4973
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Postdoctoral Positions and Research Staff: Columbia University in the City of New York
Genome Rearrangement, Transposon Recruitment, Epigenetics, Chromatin, and Non-coding RNA

Postdoctoral and staff positions are available in the Landweber lab in all areas of Oxytricha biology, including a joint position with the neighboring laboratory of Samuel Sternberg (sternberglab.org). The joint position will focus on transposase recruitment and domestication in programmed genome rearrangements in the ciliate Oxytricha, combining expertise from the Landweber lab in Oxytricha biology with expertise from the Sternberg lab in transposase recruitment for RNA-guided genome editing in CRISPR–Cas systems. We are seeking to hire a postdoctoral 

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Dear ciliate community,

It's been really rewarding to first develop the Coregulation Data Harvester
(CDH) in Aaron Turkewitz's lab in 2015 and to see more labs starting to use
it since our publication <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2017.06.006> in
2017. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the CDH, it's a program that
allows you to quickly gather functional information about coregulated genes
in *T. thermophila*, after identifying their orthologs in other organisms,
and thereby gain insight into likely functions of novel or simply
unannotated genes. We've and our collaborators have been able to
experimentally validate a lot of candidates that the program 

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Dear colleagues,

I apologize for the non-ciliate focused nature of this announcement, but my thought is that if there are qualified candidates that our community might know of who might interested and also have experience with proteomics using ciliates, it would be terrific to have them apply!

We recently got NSF MRI and Murdock Foundation funding to support the acquisition of new Mass Spec instrumentation and are now seeking a staff member whose role would be to facilitate the use of these equipment for research and teaching purposes at my university, Western Washington University in lovely Bellingham, WA. I would 

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Dear colleagues,

A long time lab coordinator in my department has just retired and we are
looking for their replacement. The link to the job description and
application is https://apply.interfolio.com/82792

Thanks and Happy New Year to everyone!

WJ

Dear colleagues: I have been asked by the publishers MDPI to edit a special issue of their journal Microorganisms on the topic of Tetrahymena thermophila. If this is deemed to be of value to the community, I would be willing to do this. Before committing to possibly doing this, I would appreciate some feedback from the community. 

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We have been purchasing gold particles for biolistic transformation from Seashell Technology Inc. Unless we are having internet problems accessing their www site, we are unable to reach them through their www site and the internet. Does anyone know if the company still exists or if someone else has taken over their business? Bottom line is does anyone have information about where to purchase gold beads at present? 

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I was fortunate to overlap with Lea in Dave Nanney’s lab when she was a post doc and I was a grad student. I continued to see Lea after we both left Urbana, first in North Carolina and then, for many years, in New York. Lea’s characteristic vigor and zest for life were ever present. She was outspoken and always had worthwhile and fun things to say. She seemed most happy in New York and it was always a pleasure to visit her in that context. I will miss her larger than life presence.
Peter Bruns

For any questions about the below, please contact Anne Bleyman at [log in to unmask]

Obituary

Bleyman-Lea Kanner

Lea Kanner Bleyman died on November 6, 2020, three days short of her 84th birthday. Professor Emerita, Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College; past-President International Society of Protozoologists (as it was then known). Lea was born in Halle, Germany, November 9, 1936. Escaping with her family to France in 1939, just before WWII, Lea spent time sheltered in OSE homes (for Jewish orphans) before a stint as a hidden child, living in a convent and on a farm to protect her from Nazi terror. Post-War, 

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Does anyone have a protocol that they have used for Tetrahymena for ribosome/polysome profiling?

If so, could they please send me the protocol or provide a published reference where I can find this protocol.

Thank you very much. Any information/assistance will be very much appreciated

Ron Pearlman

Dr. Ronald E. Pearlman [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Past President and Advisor 

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Dear Ciliatologists
I have just received the following E - mail from son of Jytte Nilsson
about Her passing away :

"It is with deep sorrow that I must inform you that Jytte has passed
away.
She was so exited and happy when you contacted her last year.
Kindly do not hesitate to contact me.
Best Regards , her son.
Steen Linderstrøm-Lang
Mail : [log in to unmask]
Phone: +4540441110 " 

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We are looking for an N-terminal tagged plasmid for transformation into Tetrahymena and we would use this to insert our gene(s) of interest to transform Tetrahymena at the gene's endogenous locus. If an N-terminal FZZ tagged plasmid is available, that would be wonderful but any tag is fine.

Please let me know if such a plasmid is available and if you are willing to send it to us. 

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Dear Linda and dear Jean,
We are shocked and very sorrowed by the news about tragic accident and
sudden death of Janine Beisson. We met Her many times at some occasions.
Long time ago Janina visited Janine Beisson Lab in Paris. Once Janine
and Her husband paid us a visit for a dinner at our appartment in Warsaw
during their short stay in Poland. It was a plesure and great honour for
us. The first thing which comes to our mind, when we think about Janine
is Her work on heredity of ciliary rows with reversed polarity in
Paramecium and 

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One of Janine Beisson’s outstanding achievements was her success in gathering and maintaining (presumably also funding) a group of outstanding scientists, many but not all originally French, who were committed to analysis of the genetics and cell biology of a single genus, Paramecium (mostly Paramecium tetraurelia). In recent decades, Janine and her group greatly advanced our knowledge of cortical structures such as basal bodies and the infraciliary lattice, on the foundation of a detailed understanding of the proteins, such as tubulins and centrins, that make up these structures. 

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Dear colleagues,

We are very sad to inform the ciliate molecular biology community that
Janine Beisson passed away last Sunday 30 August, victim of an
automobile accident while touring the French Alps. She was 89.

After a long research career and important contributions to genetics,
non-Mendelian heredity, Paramecium cell biology and pattern formation,
Janine (almost) completely retired from the lab in 2018. Since then, she
had been in good health and was enjoying life. 

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Hello Everyone,
I hope you are well and enjoying the end of summer.
I have a question about gene annotation. What is the current best way to
identify introns and exons in Tetrahymena? I have tried the web version of
AUGUSTUS and NCBI ORF finder without much success. Has anyone trained
software to identify the exon/intron junctions and would be willing to
analyze two genes for me?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Marcella 

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Dear Ciliate Community,

The *2020 Junior Investigator Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting *is right
around the corner, and we have a great lineup of exciting presentations!
Support your colleagues (and meet new ones) and attend this virtual meeting
next week, from July 20-23rd, 10am-12:10pm (Eastern time zone).
*Although it is free to attend, you must first register so we can email you
the Zoom link and password.* 

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Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology community,

As a reminder, we would like to know your interest in presenting at the
upcoming Junior Investigator Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting as soon as
possible (*preferably by this Friday June 26th*) to help us best organize
the sessions. The meeting will occur (virtually) over the week of July
20th-24th. Live (synchronous) presentations will be selected from
researchers at Undergraduate, Graduate, Postdoc and Assistant Professor
levels. Those not selected for live presentations will be given the
opportunity to submit a recorded presentation for viewing at any time by
meeting participants. The meeting will be open to 

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Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology community,

As many of you know, the pandemic necessitated the postponement of most
on-site academic meetings and conferences until at least next year.
Unfortunately, this timing means that our trainees will have fewer
opportunities to present their thesis research, and have reduced access to
essential feedback and recognition for their hard work. To address this
situation, members of TetRA board and the ciliate molecular biology
community are announcing a free, "*2020 Junior Investigator Ciliate
Molecular Biology Meeting" to be held virtually from July 20th-24th, 2020*.
The goal of this international conference is to highlight the research 

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Application link: https://apply.interfolio.com/76571

Description

Primary responsibility is the preparation and teaching of laboratories for
upper level biology courses (200 level and above). This position works
full-time during the academic year, with 3 months off. Considered part time
with 75% schedule.

*Responsibilities:*

- Helps faculty develop and plan laboratories and create lab manuals.
- Prepares laboratories by gathering and setting out needed supplies and
equipment, preparing chemical solutions, tracking inventories, ordering
supplies, maintaining living material, etc. Also responsible for tearing
down laboratories and ensuring equipment is put away and materials are
cleaned.
- Teaches laboratories (3 hours each, 3 days/wk). This 

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Dear ciliate colleagues

This note is with regard to the Coregulation Data Harvester, the online transcriptional profiling tool that some of you have used. The CDH was initially created by Lev Tsypin in my lab. This summer, I may have a computer science master’s student rewrite the code, with Lev (now a graduate student at Caltech) serving as advisor. My question to those of you who’ve used it: do you have a wishlist for additional features, or simply for some tweaks that would make the CDH more useful for you? If so, please send your ideas to me. Of course 

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Dear colleagues,

A 3-year post-doc and 4-year PhD student positions are open at Institute of
Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
Poland to study non-coding transcription in Paramecium.

Would you please forward the attached announcements to anyone you think may
be interested ?

Best,
Jacek K. Nowak, PhD

From below “How to Talk About the Coronavirus Four ways to help those around you be better informed about the pandemic”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/how-talk-about-coronavirus/609118/

From my iPhone SE
Italy 39-349-056-0727
USA 01-801-448-5822
Please do NOT send email to my iCloud account, but to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Nature Briefing <[log in to unmask]>
Date: April 1, 2020 at 20:11:11 GMT+2
To: Glenn Herrick <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Evidence that cats (but not dogs) can be infected with the coronavirus
Reply-To: Nature Briefing <[log in to unmask]> 

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Dear Colleagues,

Out of an abundance of caution regarding the pandemic of COVID-19, the organizers of the 2020 CILIATE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CONFERENCE have made the difficult decision to postpone the meeting, moving it to July 2021. The 2021 venue, speakers, and format are anticipated to remain the same, and the meeting will still occur in Lisboa, Portugal. 

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As part of a campus wide response to the COVID-19 threat, the Tetrahymena Stock Center will temporarily suspend all shipments starting March 17, 2020 and continuing until the COVID-19 situation is resolved.

Check the website (https://tetrahymena.vet.cornell.edu/) for updates on when we will resume shipping.

Specific inquiries can be addressed to [log in to unmask] . 

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Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know of a stain or method that will increase visualization of
cell morphology (cilia, oral apparatus, etc.) using a light microscope
rather than fluorescence?
Thank you for your help,
Marcella

My laboratory is starting a new project to analyze membrane trafficking pathways in Tetrahymena. The focus will include our long-term interest in mucocyst (secretory organelle) biogenesis but also phagosome formation and maturation. You can find examples of our recent work at:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218300800?via%3Dihub
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/737247v1

Individuals interested in participating, either as postdocs or as research assistants (e.g., a 2-3 year position after college), are warmly encouraged to contact me for more information.
Thanks
Aaron 

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SAVE THE DATE:
The 2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology symposium in Lisbon, Portugal will be held from July 14-18, at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Health Technology).

2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference

July 14-18, 2020
Lisbon, Portugal
The conference website will be active soon.

Mark your calendars now to attend the 2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference, July 14-18 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference highlights recent research advances using ciliates, new tools and resources available for ciliate research, and novel community-wide initiatives in undergraduate research and education. At this meeting, interactions and discussions between scientists 

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*SAVE THE DATE:*
The 2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology symposium in Lisbon, Portugal will be
held from July 14-18, at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de
Lisboa (Lisbon School of Health Technology).

*2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference*

*July 14-18, 2020*
*Lisbon, Portugal*
*The conference website will be active soon.*

Mark your calendars now to attend the *2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology
Conference*, *July 14-18 in Lisbon, Portugal*. The conference highlights
recent research advances using ciliates, new tools and resources available
for ciliate research, and novel community-wide initiatives in undergraduate
research and education. At this meeting, interactions and discussions
between scientists 

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Dear colleagues,

The DFG funded Research Training Group "Evolutionary Processes in Adaptation and Disease" at the University of Münster, Germany, invites applications for 12 PhD Positions in biology, medicine, and philosophy (https://www.uni-muenster.de/EvoPAD/application/index.html <https://www.uni-muenster.de/EvoPAD/application/index.html> ).

One of these PhD positions is available in my research group. The successful candidate will focus on the process of Programmed DNA Elimination (PDE) in Paramecium. We are interested in understanding the impact of ecological changes on the fidelity of PDE and its consequences for genome evolution and adaptation. 

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Hello all,

As a proof of principle experiment for NMR, we'd like to purify a highly
soluble, smallish (<40kDa) over-expressed affinity-tagged (his, GST, etc)
non-endogenous protein from tetrahymena. For those not familiar with our
work, we use the fact that tetrahymena readily eat bacteria to incorporate
heavy isotopes needed for biomolecular NMR. We've focused on tubulin, but
are hoping to see how generally applicable the system might be. 

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Dear ASCB going ciliate community,

I hope everyone is doing well. ASCB is just around the corner and, as always, it would be nice to have a lunch to catch up and talk about all things ciliates. If you, or any of your students/postdocs, would like to attend please email me at: [log in to unmask] I would like to get a rough headcount so I can secure a lunch spot. Also, if you have a preference for Monday the 9th or Tuesday the 10th please let me know in your email. 

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Dear Ciliate community

it is with great sorry that we have known the very sad news about the passing away of Marty Gorovsky.
On behalf of all the members ot the Italian Society, I send to you all, and especially to his family, our condolences.

M. Cristina Angelici
President of the Italian Society of Protistology (SIPonlus)

Dear Ciliate Community Members,

I have written some of you some select emails as to my thought about Marty...this includes Joyce and his family, Jody, Jeff Hayes (who informed me of Marty's passing), Sean Taverna and a few other. Of course, I too echo all of what has been said about Marty, the scientist and Marty, the man. Both were off-scale. 

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I will echo some of Eric’s remarks. One of my strongest memories from when I first joined the ciliate community was of Marty (along with Peter Bruns, Ed Orias, Liz Blackburn, Carol Greider, Joe Frankel) sitting in the front row at the ciliate molecular biology conference in Henniker, New Hampshire, ready to put his finger on the most important experiment someone hadn’t done. Although a bit intimidating, it was all done in good spirit and with the goal of getting to the scientific truth of the question at hand. Marty had an unrelenting critical eye but, like his companions in 

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Dear ciliate colleagues, I was out of touch electronically when the word came out of the loss of Marty Gorovsky; I write to add to the many thoughts of the community. Marty was an immensely important and influential colleague and scientist. He contributed to the science of Tetrahymena specifically, and cell biology more generally. Focusing on gene regulation, he made major contributions throughout his long and productive career. Beyond that, he was an incredible mentor and colleague. So many of us were aided and supported by his generosity, his wisdom and his critical thinking, no matter if we were student 

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Dear Ciliate Researchers:

I am forwarding very sad news from Jody Bowen about the passing away of Marty Gorovsky. His studies led to many fundamental contributions in cell and molecular biology based on ciliate models, including groundbreaking discoveries on chromatin and genome organization. I had an honor and privilege to be among his many trainees. Marty was a wonderful mentor. It is a huge loss to our community. 

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Dear colleagues,

My department at the University of Houston is searching for an Ecologist (broadly defined) at the Associate or Full Professor level (also able to consider Asst. Professors with sufficient experience to be hired with tenure).

Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested:
https://uhs.taleo.net/careersection/ex2_uhf/jobdetail.ftl?job=FAC001168

-Becky Zufall

Full or Associate Professor - Ecology - (FAC001168)
Organization
: H0104 Biology
Salary Commensurate with experience
Description
: 

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Dear Ciliate Biologists,

The journal Microorganisms (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/microorganisms, IF
4.167) is preparing a Special Issue entitled "Ciliate: From Genomics to
Signalling Systems", for which we are the Guest Editors.

This Special Issue is open to all approaches and studies seeking to
understand the complex mechanisms and evolution of signalling systems in
ciliates, from the involved genes to the changes in gene expression during
cell response, and from the structure and evolution of signal molecules to
the membrane traffic in cells and changes in cell structure and
organization. 

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Having some deep attachment to these islands and
the islanders I contacted the Director of the Cape Eleuthera
Institute and asked about a good place to offer financial support
for the residents of Grand Bahamas and Abaco. here is what he sent me:

"There is a grass roots Bahamian organisation called HeadKnowles that is
coordinating relief efforts for a number of Bahamian NGOs. They have
planes standing by ready to fly and are coordinating supplies collection in
Nassau - their biggest need is money to pay for aviation fuel. They have
a GoFundMe <https://www.gofundme.com/f/headknowles-emergency-funds> page
and I would recommend directing 

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Dear colleagues,

Please help pass to interested colleagues and friends.
Description

The Biology Department at Hamilton College invites applications for an
eighteen-month position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor,
beginning January 1, 2020. Candidates with a completed Ph.D. and teaching
experience preferred. The teaching load for this position is the
equivalent of three courses during the first semester and five courses
thereafter. The successful applicant will teach a lecture/lab course on
Genetics (two course credits), an introductory biology course, and two
additional course credits as complements to the department's offerings.
These may include: a lecture/lab course, a non-majors lecture 

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Dear Ciliate Researcher,

Some years ago I came across a plasmid that enables overexpression of
Tetrahymena proteins under the control of MTT1 promoter in GRL3/GRL4
loci. We designed a similar plasmid for overexpression in these loci.
Does anyone know who first made this plasmid and which paper should be
cited or who should be acknowledged?
Many thanks in advance! 

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Greetings, ciliate colleagues —
I have a problem: after retiring from Maryland to Oregon, I find that the bulk of the equipment and supplies I brought with me (to continue my research in my ‘home lab’ ... as I supposed … ) is going unused. Rather than sit on my shelves, I’d like to see these reagents used by someone working with protists. I’ve found homes locally for the more common supplies and equipment from my larder (Ashland High School, and Southern Oregon University). But some of the more specialized things typically are used only by folks like us, doing 

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Dear Ciliate colleagues
The voting for new Tetra Board members is complete, with a total of 158 votes cast. The new Tetra board members will be:

Mireille Betermier
Marcella Cervantes
Chad Pearson

Thanks to all of you who participated, and especially to the candidates who accepted nomination and the opportunity to strengthen our community.

All the best
Aaron 

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I teach biology at a 2-year HSI community college in Western Massachusetts
and am setting up a new 200-level cell biology course to begin Fall 2020. I
am developing course materials for the lab, in which I would like the
students to run research projects using *Tetrahymena*.

The focus of the course is on cell biology, not molecular genetics, so I am
looking for possible partner projects that require the (~15-20) students to
analyze cell biology/physiology of mutants or tagged lines that someone
else has generated. Do you have a backlog of such lines that you want help
screening? 

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In case it’s useful, here’s a message again that I’d sent previously, on the current composition of the TETRA Board.

Aaron

Dear colleagues-in-ciliates,

I am writing to inform you of an upcoming election to fill three vacancies in the Tetrahymena Research Advisory (TetRA) Board, and to invite you to submit nominations for candidates. 

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To all members of the ciliate community,

Three positions on the 6-member TETRA Advisory Board are coming vacant. Four people have accepted nominations to run for these positions, and on behalf of the current board I would like to thank them.

You will find their names and position statements below. You will be receiving, by e-mail, instructions on how to vote in this election. The voting will be open until June 3rd. 

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Dear colleagues,

A 2-year post-doctoral postition is open in Gif-sur-Yvette to work on
Paramecium domesticated transposases and their partners in programmed
genome rearrangements
(https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9198-MIRBET-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN<http://bit.ly/2PihOFW>).

Would you please forward the attached announcement to anyone you think
may be interested ?

Best regards,

Mireille Bétermier

Dear All,

Thanks Aaron for referencing the “Why Ciliates” video on Vimeo in your previous email to the ciliate community. I would only point out that the correct link to that video is as follows: https://vimeo.com/191812936

Best, Ted

Dear colleagues-in-ciliates,

I am writing to inform you of an upcoming election to fill three vacancies in the Tetrahymena Research Advisory (TetRA) Board, and to invite you to submit nominations for candidates.

Background:

TetRA Board holds ~monthly meetings via Zoom to identify and act on issues that impact the ciliate molecular biology research community. Since its inception in 2011, TetRA Board has addressed a wide range of topics. They include (1) the security and expansion of community resources in stock centers and genome databases, (2) the challenges associated with re-tooling research in the era of genomics and bioinformatics, and effectively 

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Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that we extended the deadline for contributions of our upccoming Special Issue entitled “Ciliate Genetics and Epigenetics” launched by the journal Genes (ISSN 2073-4425; IF 3.2).

New deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2019

This Special Issue provides an overview on the genetics and epigenetics in ciliates and their impacts on adaptation and evolution. We invite submissions for reviews, research articles, or short-communications reporting molecular genetics and epigenomics studies of ciliate research. 

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Dear Ciliate researchers!Please read – not a predator journal scam!!

We are hoping to make ciliate research more visible and appreciated.

In collaboration with the journal *Frontiers in Cell and Developmental
Biology* <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/403>, we are bringing
together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an
open-access article collection on:

*What Do We Learn About Cilia From Ciliate Model Systems? The Insights
From Cutting-Edge Approaches*
<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9254> 

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We need to replace our Coulter Counter, which is the model in which you can set dual threshholds (the Z1-D). From what I can tell, the model with a single threshold (Z1-S) should be equally good for counting Tetrahymena, but does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks very much
Aaron Turkewitz

Please see below for the announcement of a lucrative 2 year postdoctoral
fellowship at York University that can be held in my lab in the Department
of Biology. I am willing to support an applicant for this award.

This award will be very competitive and there are unfortunately few awards
spread over the entire Faculty of Science. An interested applicant will
need to have a strong academic and publication record. The successful
applicant will need to have completed their Ph.D. and take up the award by
October 2019. 

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Hi ASCB going ciliate community,

ASCB is right around the corner. The ciliate lunch will be held on Tuesday the 11th. If you have not RSVPed yet, please send me an email at [log in to unmask] It is open to all researchers interested in ciliate biology, including graduate students and postdocs. If you know of anyone who may be interested please forward them this email. Thank you and I look forwards to seeing some of you in sunny San Diego next week! 

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Dear Ciliate Communities,

I’m interested in doing some automated cell image analysis to measure cell shape. Has anyone done something similar? I’m envisioning a cytosolic stain or membrane marker that would allow for clearly defining the edges of a cell in order for image analysis software to detect and quantify cell dimensions. 

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Dear ASCB going ciliate community,

I hope everyone is doing well. ASCB is just around the corner and, as always, it would be nice to have a lunch to catch up and talk about all things ciliates. If you, or any of your students/postdocs, would like to attend please email me at: [log in to unmask] I would like to get a rough headcount so I can secure a lunch spot. I promise to avoid restaurants with exceptionally loud Sitar players like we had last year. Also, if you have a preference for Sunday, Monday or Tuesday please let me know in your 

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Dear colleagues,

This announcement serves to remind authors and readers of our upccoming Special Issue entitled “Ciliate Genetics and Epigenetics” launched by the journal Genes (ISSN 2073-4425; IF 3.600).

This Special Issue provides an overview on the genetics and epigenetics in ciliates and their impacts on adaptation and evolution. We invite submissions for reviews, research articles, or short-communications reporting molecular genetics and epigenomics studies of ciliate research. 

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Dear all,

I have two positions available in my lab, a postdoc position, and a lab manager/staff associate position.

Please see the job postings at

https://www.rnasociety.org/jobs/postdoctoral-position-study-rna-guided-genome-rearrangements-columbia-university-new-york/
for the postdoc position

and

https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=66826 <https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=66826> for the staff associate/technician/lab manager position.

The full text of the postdoc ad is as follows:

RNA-Guided Genome Rearrangements at Columbia University (Landweber lab) in the City of New York 

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Hi All,

Does anyone have a plasmid for targeting into the MTT1 locus with mCherry or any non-green fluorescent protein? For example a desired plasmid would have the following elements: MTT1-5’-neo5-MTT1-5’(promoter)-mCherry-myORF-MTT1-3’ ? Thank you in advance for your help!

Best Wishes

Jacek

Jacek Gaertig
Department of Cellular Biology
University of Georgia
724 Biological Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602-2607
Phone: 706-542-3409
Fax: 706-542-4271

Dear Ciliate community,
Greetings from the Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference. You may want to read the interview with Sujal Phadke on maintaining work-life balance as an early career researcher.
http://genestogenomes.org/sujal-phadke-on-finding-work-life-balance-in-non-profit-research/

Here former PhD advisor, Becky Zufall, was one of three researchers on a discussion panel at the conference
a quote from the article.

"Becky Zufall, showed me what a good mentor should be. She supported my interests by allowing me to be independent and have the freedom to determine where to take my research." 

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Dear Erhan,

We often had a similar problem. While Normocin does not help, Normocure (from the same company) does. We use it 1:500 in small cultures; after 2-3 days, the cells are usually cured.

Best regards,

Josef Loidl

Von: Ciliate Molecular Biology [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von erhan aslan
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2018 17:47
An: [log in to unmask]
Betreff: Tetrahymena culture contamination 

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Dear Ciliate Community,

I am struggling with contamination in my *Tetrahymena* cultures for a
while. Routinely used antibiotics (pen-strep, amphotericin) don't work. I
used normocin from Invitrogen in conbination with pen-strep or kanamycin to
get rid of them but no success again. Contaminated wells appear whitish and
cloudy (Please see attachment). I noticed that this contamination generally
occurs after biolistic bombardment. Sterile cabinet was tested for the
possible contamination source but it seems OK. I extensively sterilize the
inner chamber of the biolistic gun (which is in our sterile cabinet) and
other components with alcohol prior to shot but they 

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Dear ciliate colleagues，

It’s my great pleasure to announce that the Tetrahymena Comparative Genomics Database (TCGD) is online (http://ciliate.ihb.ac.cn/).

TCGD now contain the genome sequences, transcriptome data, predicted genes, functional annotation, ortholog groups of newly sequenced nine Tetrahymena species. Among them, three species (T. borealis, T. elliotti, T. malaccensis) were sequenced by Broad Institute and JCVI (supported by NSF funding to Robert Coyne), and previously available in TGD wiki. TCGD have hyperlinks to direct the user to these three genomes in TGD wiki. The rest six genomes (T. pyriformis, T. vorax, T. canadensis, T. empidokyrea, T. shanghaiensis and T. paravorax) 

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I have some lab equipment that I'd like to pass on to some worthy scientist doing ciliate genetics. They are:

1. Two 96-well replica plating tools (thin and thick prongs)
2. One 48-prong "drop maker" used for, well, making drops (obviously) in a petri dish for isolating single cells or mating pairs. If you've seen one, you know what I mean. As far as I know, they are only used for Tetrahymena, but maybe they would be useful for other ciliates.
3. Two 48-prong replica tools for replicating the above drop plates (thin and thick prongs).
4. One 12-channel Costar 

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Hello all -

The Winey lab at UC Davis is accepting applications for a postdoctoral position to do biochemistry on Tetrahymena axonemal proteins.

This position is funded with good benefits, and here is the link to apply:

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF02298

Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,

Mark Winey

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Dear Fellow Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference Participants

Reminder:
We have a new opportunity to present your work at the conference – “Lightning talks”. What is a lightning talk? In short you have 2 minutes to make your pitch. We still have room for a few more
Need more inspiration?
Did you have a poster and want to describe your coolest result on stage?
Did you develop a new technique that you want to share?
Did you come up with the next great idea of what to study and just need to pitch it?
Do you have a need to rap 

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Dear Ciliate Molecular Biology Community

As community members at the 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference will vote on where to hold the 2020 meeting, we would like to give everyone an opportunity to indicate factors that would make their attendance 2020 Ciliate Molecular Biology meeting more or less likely. Please respond to the easy 10 question survey linked below.
Thank you 

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What a sad news. Drowning while collecting his small little friends, the ciliates, which made him such an outstanding scientist, is an unbelievable irony of fate, which makes me almost speechless. On June 19, June we communicated via email on another joint project. Denis told me of his soon trip to Haikai Institute on Calwert Island and informed me, that he would send me a missing drawing immediately after his return. Now, all is gone – I lost a dear friend and an excellent colleague - I’m so sad. 

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Dear Colleagues,

most of you already heard the bad news about Denis Lynn´s decease, which makes the entire community really sad…
We want to call in remembrance Denis work, his devotion to his science and recall his relationships with the community at the approaching Ciliate meeting in Washington starting at July 17th. 

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It is so very painful to accept the news that Denis Lynn has been taken
away from us so suddenly, while still at the height of his scientific
contributions.

Denis was a model scientist – distinguished for his active, rigorous,
creative, thoughtful research, productive as teacher, mentor and
investigator, while devoting many years of distinguished service to the
profession as Editor of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 

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This is very sad news. I vividly remember his visit to our university in 2015, great lecture and a fine dinner discussion afterwards about ciliates and a bit about UBC (I was there in 1975/76 as a graduate student with J. D. Berger)

Thanks for sharing

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Von: Ciliate Molecular Biology [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Ronald Pearlman
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2018 18:36
An: [log in to unmask]
Betreff: Re: Denis Lynn 

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I'm so sorry about Denis Lynn's death. I met him here in Madrid a long time
ago,
and I found out that he was not only a great protistologist but also a great
person.

He will be missed!

Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez
Catedrático de Microbiología
Dpto. Genética, Fisiología y Microbiología
Unidad Docente de Microbiología
Facultad de Biología
C/. Jose Antonio Novais, 12.
Universidad Complutense (UCM)
28040 Madrid. Spain.
Telf. 91-3944968
Fax. 91-3944964
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

I am very upset by this sad news. Year ago I met Him in Prague at
the Int. Congress of Protistology. It was so short time ago. Then He was
interested in some commensalic ciliates (Chontricha) and next I tried,
with not success, to find them on the Baltic shore. I remember Him as a
person who was serving in many ways to the whole community of
ciliatologists. In His book "The Ciliated Protozoa" He was very careful
to save a lot of contributions on whole spectrum of ciliates. For many
years He was excelent editor of the J. Euk 

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I'm very sorry to share the sad news I've just received, that Denis Lynn died yesterday while conducting field work on the central coast of British Columbia.

Aaron Turkewitz

I've been slow sending this out—Glenn and I collaborated with Bob for years and years, and his death brings may regrets.
Obituary for Robert "Bob" L. Hammersmith

Dr. Robert L. “Bob” Hammersmith, 71, of New Castle passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in his home. He was born January 27, 1947 to the late Rodney and Reba (Smith) Hammersmith. 

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Dear Ciliate Community,

I’m looking for a commercially available antibody that works well as a loading control on Western blots of Tetrahymena lysates. I’ve been using Joe Frankel’s excellent anti- alpha-tubulin, but the antigen is so abundant relative to the proteins I’m working with that I can’t use it as a normalization control. I’m looking for an antibody that recognizes a protein that is ideally between 35 and 60 kD, though would welcome any suggestions outside of this range. 

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Dear colleagues of the ciliate community,

we would like to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled
“Ciliate Genetics and Epigenetics” launched by the journal Genes (ISSN
2073-4425).

Ciliates have been well-established as model organisms to investigate
genetics and epigenetics. These single cell eukaryotes have two types of
nuclei: germline micro- and somatic macronuclei. Some of the first
epigenetic phenomena were described in these organisms, and research over
the last few decades has elucidated mechanisms that underlie these
phenomena. Ciliates helped pioneer the current understanding of RNA
interference, both for siRNA-mediated silencing and for small RNA-directed
chromatin modification 

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Dear Ciliate Molecular Biologists,

In advance of the business meeting at the 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference, we need community input on potential sites for the next meeting. As the last two have been in the United States, a European site would be the historical location for the 2020 meeting. Community members have already submitted information on potential sites in St. Petersburg, Russia and at the Orthodox Academy in Crete. Both these sites have potential complications related to participant travel. We also have a community member offering to host the meeting in China. As it is important to think about 

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We're looking for amazing pictures of Tetrahymena.

We are writing a chapter on the Tetrahymena Stock Center for a forthcoming book on strategies for conservation for genetic resources of model organisms. As part of that effort, we have been invited to submit photographs that could be used for possible inclusion in the book as part of a collage of organism images in the book and perhaps even as a cover photo. 

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Dear Ciliate Researchers,

On behalf of the organizers, I would like to remind you that the early registration and housing deadline for the Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference (July 17-22) in Washington, DC, is May 30. More information below.

In addition, we want to make you aware of a new opportunity to present your work at the conference – “Lightning talks”. What is a lightning talk? In short you have 2 minutes to make your pitch.
Need more inspiration?
Did you have a poster and want to describe your coolest result on stage?
Did you develop a new technique that you 

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Dear colleagues:

The “Why Ciliates” video, premiered at the 2016 TAGC meeting (The Allied Genetics Conference), was recently highlighted in a Genetics Society of America blog. Cristy Gelling, Communications Director for GSA, interviewed Ted Clark, Jeff Kapler and Dianne Ritter (Flying Dreams Productions), asking about the development of the concept of the video, goals and objectives, financing and production logistics. 

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Dear colleagues:

The “Why Ciliates” video, premiered at the 2016 TAGC meeting (The Allied Genetics Conference), was highlighted this week in a Genetics Society of America blog.
Cristy Gelling Communications Director for GSA interviewed Ted Clark, Jeff Kapler and Dianne Ritter (Flying Dreams Productions), asking about the development of the concept of the video, goals and objectives, financing and production logistics. 

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Dear all,

We are sending a prodding email to request that you please submit your abstracts for the upcoming 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting. These are due by tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4. To maintain an active and exciting meeting, we need everyone to participate.

The Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting will be held July 17-22, 2018 in Washington, DC at American University. The conference brings together a diverse group of laboratories from multiple disciplines including molecular biology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, and cell biology. The schedule is designed to encourage interaction and discussion, promote trainee and junior faculty mentoring, present interdisciplinary research 

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Dear Ciliate Community,

We are sending a friendly reminder that abstracts for the 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting are due APRIL 4, 2018.

Also, please note that GSA Undergraduate Travel Award applications are due TOMORROW, March 21, 2018 and Delill Nassar Professional Development award applications are due APRIL 3, 2018.

Please see below for more information. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Washington DC. 

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Dear Ciliate Community,

We are pleased to announce that the Registration and Abstract submission for the 2018 GSA Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting is now open (http://conferences.genetics-gsa.org/ciliate/2018/index).

The Ciliate Molecular Biology Meeting will be held July 17-22, 2018 in Washington, DC at American University. The conference brings together a diverse group of laboratories from multiple disciplines including molecular biology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, and cell biology. The schedule is designed to encourage interaction and discussion, promote trainee and junior faculty mentoring, present interdisciplinary research and learn about technical and community resources that are available. Washington DC is a central location for easy 

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Dear colleagues
I am hoping to hire a research technician, for a minimum two-year period. The individual would be in charge of a project involving genetic analysis of Tetrahymena genetics combined with genome sequencing, and also be involved in follow-up experiments taking cell biological/biochemical approaches. A recent example of these approaches in our lab can be found in: 

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This just circulated through the Toronto RNA Club might be of interest to
some in the ciliate community. Please circulate as appropriate.

Ron

Dr. Ronald E. Pearlman [log in to unmask]
Associate Scientific Director
Co-ordinator, Student Outreach Programs
The Gairdner Foundation
Past President and Advisor
Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the Advancement of Science
University Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar
Dept. of Biology
Director, Core Molecular Biology Facility
York University
4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Phone:416-736-5241; FAX:416-736-5698 

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Dear all,

I recently moved to the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, in Tuebingen, Germany, and am recruiting. If you know someone that’s looking for a position, I’d appreciate you pointing them in my direction.

I’m currently looking for both a good, molecularly-inclined postdoc <https://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/fileadmin/uploads/images/Open_Positions/PostdocMolBio_Swart.pdf> and a technical assistant <https://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/fileadmin/uploads/images/Open_Positions/TA_Swart_English.pdf>:

https://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/open-positions/ <https://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/open-positions/> 

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Dear ciliate colleagues

My department (Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, at the University of Chicago) is searching to fill a faculty position this year, as described in this ad:

http://tinyurl.com/y7gkwsog

The review of applications will begin December 1.

The search is open, and in particular candidates using quantitative biology approaches or asking evolutionary questions in molecular or cellular biology are encouraged to apply, as are members of underrepresented groups. 

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Dear Ciliate Research Community,
I would like to invite anyone who is attending the ASCB conference in Philadelphia this year to join us for our annual Ciliate lunch. This is an informal lunch aimed at catching up with colleagues and talking Ciliate biology. The date will be Sunday December 3rd. The venue and time will be determined after I get a rough head count of people attending. I am aiming for a place in walking distance of the convention center at around 12:00 P.M. Feel free to forward this invitation to members of your labs and others you know who 

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Dear ciliate community,

I have an open postdoc position to study RNA-mediated genome remodeling in
Paramecium. Here's the ad:

Postdoc Position in RNA Biology and Epigenetics

The Nowacki lab is looking for researchers interested in studying the
mechanisms of RNA-mediated epigenetic programming of developmental genome
rearrangements in ciliates. The candidates should have a very strong
background in molecular biology and biochemistry or bioinformatics and at
least one first-author publication. Good communication skills in English
are expected. For more information about the research please visit the lab
websites: 

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