We are very happy and proud to see the project of Ananya Kedige Rao, PhD student in the team, published yesterday in Current Biology.

“Neither Prey Nor Symbiont: When Plankton Obscures the Boundary Between Predation and Symbiosis”. This study shows how a planktonic host steals and hijacks energy-producing organelles (chloroplast and mitochondrion) of a microalgal cell.  A combination of different subcellular imaging techniques (Expansion and 3D electron microscopy) was used to scrutinize and decipher this complex cellular interaction over time. A nice example of “Bricolage du vivant” among single-celled organisms in the ocean.

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Warm thanks to collaborators from CEA-Irig ,(Pierre-Henri Jouneau) Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) (Benoit Gallet), Florian Jug and Joran Deschamps from Human Technopole, Marine Olivetta and Omaya Dudin, PhD from Faculty of Science | University of Geneva, Institut Curie

This work was funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (AtlaSymbio project), European Research Council (ERC) (SymbiOCEAN project), AI4Life EU project