Armando Rubio Ramos
@bioarm.bsky.social
Cell biologist 🔬 | Exploring the mysteries of centrosomes and cytoskeleton diversity🐉🦠 | Postdoc at Centriole Lab, University of Geneva
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Just uploaded our new preprint to @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀
We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm.
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀
We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm.
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just uploaded our new preprint to @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀
We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm.
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀
We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm.
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
Reposted by Armando Rubio Ramos
Grants writing tips: (1) Rejections are totally normal, have faith in your idea, push it and improve it; (2) Every panel is different. Study it and prepare your grant for them; (3) Grant-writing takes months. Plan it and get diverse feedback and (4) Have fun with it! The work there is never wasted 😜
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Grants writing tips: (1) Rejections are totally normal, have faith in your idea, push it and improve it; (2) Every panel is different. Study it and prepare your grant for them; (3) Grant-writing takes months. Plan it and get diverse feedback and (4) Have fun with it! The work there is never wasted 😜
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In 2023, we first sampled from a geothermal tributary at LVNP and using enrichment culturing, found an amoeba growing at high temp.
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In 2023, we first sampled from a geothermal tributary at LVNP and using enrichment culturing, found an amoeba growing at high temp.
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The lab’s first pre-print! We investigated how growth-inducing Erk activity waves are regulated in regenerating zebrafish scales. We discovered that Erk waves are followed by waves of expression of their own inhibitors, as predicted by excitable waves theory. tinyurl.com/26r2cmpj
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The lab’s first pre-print! We investigated how growth-inducing Erk activity waves are regulated in regenerating zebrafish scales. We discovered that Erk waves are followed by waves of expression of their own inhibitors, as predicted by excitable waves theory. tinyurl.com/26r2cmpj
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An interesting essay by Oliver Hobert on 'Paraneurons':
"unifying sensory receptors
located on external or internal epithelial
cells feeding into the nervous system,
as well as effector cells of the nervous
system that respond to neuronal
stimuli by […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
"unifying sensory receptors
located on external or internal epithelial
cells feeding into the nervous system,
as well as effector cells of the nervous
system that respond to neuronal
stimuli by […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
An interesting essay by Oliver Hobert on 'Paraneurons':
"unifying sensory receptors
located on external or internal epithelial
cells feeding into the nervous system,
as well as effector cells of the nervous
system that respond to neuronal
stimuli by […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
"unifying sensory receptors
located on external or internal epithelial
cells feeding into the nervous system,
as well as effector cells of the nervous
system that respond to neuronal
stimuli by […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
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Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social for your publication in @cp-cell.bsky.social: Charting the landscape of #cytoskeletal diversity in #microbial eukaryotes #Expansion #Microscopy @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social for your publication in @cp-cell.bsky.social: Charting the landscape of #cytoskeletal diversity in #microbial eukaryotes #Expansion #Microscopy @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social for your publication in @cp-cell.bsky.social: Charting the landscape of #cytoskeletal diversity in #microbial eukaryotes #Expansion #Microscopy @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social for your publication in @cp-cell.bsky.social: Charting the landscape of #cytoskeletal diversity in #microbial eukaryotes #Expansion #Microscopy @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
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Our study, just published in #ScienceAdvances and funded by @hfspo.bsky.social, explores the post metamorphic cell composition of the sea urchin juvenile, revealing that its body is head-like. Long considered brainless creatures, they’re all brain instead!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system
A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Our study, just published in #ScienceAdvances and funded by @hfspo.bsky.social, explores the post metamorphic cell composition of the sea urchin juvenile, revealing that its body is head-like. Long considered brainless creatures, they’re all brain instead!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Me describing my grant idea to my fellas: A masterpiece of logic and innovation VS
Me actually writing it at 2 AM: Chaos and disillusion
Me actually writing it at 2 AM: Chaos and disillusion
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Me describing my grant idea to my fellas: A masterpiece of logic and innovation VS
Me actually writing it at 2 AM: Chaos and disillusion
Me actually writing it at 2 AM: Chaos and disillusion
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Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?
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Launching celldynamicslab.com, the homepage of our new group at EPFL working on cell fragmentation, membrane and cortex mechanics, FLIM imaging, and microfluidics tools. MSc/PhD or postdocs interested in quantitative cell biology are welcome to reach out. We're also hiring a lab manager in 2026!
Main - Cell Dynamics and Fragmentation Lab
The Cell Dynamics and Fragmentation lab at We study how single cells move and fragment in complex environments using microfluidics. We bring tools and concep...
celldynamicslab.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Launching celldynamicslab.com, the homepage of our new group at EPFL working on cell fragmentation, membrane and cortex mechanics, FLIM imaging, and microfluidics tools. MSc/PhD or postdocs interested in quantitative cell biology are welcome to reach out. We're also hiring a lab manager in 2026!
Check this one out! Outstanding review to understand all the different approaches that are being used to understand the structure and function of the Cilia and the centriole :)
#cytoskeleton #cellbiology
PS: and congrats for the cover🥰
#cytoskeleton #cellbiology
PS: and congrats for the cover🥰
Exciting news: the new review from @centriolelab.bsky.social is out in the amazing #JCSciliaSI! 🎉
I had the pleasure of working alongside Olivier Mercey, Paul Guichard and Virginie Hamel on this one.
Cherry on top: our #UExM image was selected for the cover of the issue! 🤩
I had the pleasure of working alongside Olivier Mercey, Paul Guichard and Virginie Hamel on this one.
Cherry on top: our #UExM image was selected for the cover of the issue! 🤩
Advances in high-resolution imaging of centrioles and cilia
Summary: A review of the progressive advances in light and electron microscopy that have revealed unprecedented structural and molecular insights into centrioles and cilia, and reshaped our view of th...
journals.biologists.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Check this one out! Outstanding review to understand all the different approaches that are being used to understand the structure and function of the Cilia and the centriole :)
#cytoskeleton #cellbiology
PS: and congrats for the cover🥰
#cytoskeleton #cellbiology
PS: and congrats for the cover🥰
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Reposted by Armando Rubio Ramos
Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them
How to really think of every way of solving a problem
engineeringx.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
This is a glimpse of the cytoskeletal structures we found doing U-ExM in more than 200 species, now in Cell🤩: shorturl.at/6oHvi
Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs.
I believe last one is a 🕷️
#FluorescenceFriday
#Microscopy
Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs.
I believe last one is a 🕷️
#FluorescenceFriday
#Microscopy
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is a glimpse of the cytoskeletal structures we found doing U-ExM in more than 200 species, now in Cell🤩: shorturl.at/6oHvi
Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs.
I believe last one is a 🕷️
#FluorescenceFriday
#Microscopy
Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs.
I believe last one is a 🕷️
#FluorescenceFriday
#Microscopy
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📻 Interview de Virginie Hamel du @centriolelab.bsky.social pour CQFD de la #RTS: Une méthode ouvre lʹaccès à lʹarchitecture interne du #plancton #microscopie #expansion www.rts.ch/audio-podcas... @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social
Une méthode ouvre lʹaccès à lʹarchitecture interne du plancton | RTS
Une étude majeure menée par l’Université de Genève et le Laboratoire européen de biologie moléculaire, publiée dans la revue Cell, révèle l’architecture interne de plus de deux cents espèces de planct...
www.rts.ch
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
📻 Interview de Virginie Hamel du @centriolelab.bsky.social pour CQFD de la #RTS: Une méthode ouvre lʹaccès à lʹarchitecture interne du #plancton #microscopie #expansion www.rts.ch/audio-podcas... @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social
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🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
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The A–C linker structure!!! 🤩 Beautiful work. Even if you’re not as centriole-obsessed as we are, you’ll appreciate the elegance and complexity. Amazing to see U-ExM proteins in human centrioles fitting right into these densities. Congrats to all!
Huge congratulations to Wieczorek Lab PhD student Bin Cai and now-PI Jingwei Xu @xujwet.bsky.social on figuring out the surprisingly complex structure of the A-C linker crosslinking microtubule triplets in Tetrahymena basal body centrioles! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Structure and assembly of the A-C linker connecting microtubule triplets in centrioles
Multiscale cryo-EM of centrioles reveals the structure and polymorphism of the A-C linker connecting microtubule triplets.
www.science.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The A–C linker structure!!! 🤩 Beautiful work. Even if you’re not as centriole-obsessed as we are, you’ll appreciate the elegance and complexity. Amazing to see U-ExM proteins in human centrioles fitting right into these densities. Congrats to all!
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Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards…
What would you do with this?
Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
What would you do with this?
Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards…
What would you do with this?
Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
What would you do with this?
Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
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🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨
Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab!
Reach out directly: [email protected]
Learn more: bonetponcelab.com
Let’s chat!
Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab!
Reach out directly: [email protected]
Learn more: bonetponcelab.com
Let’s chat!
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨
Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab!
Reach out directly: [email protected]
Learn more: bonetponcelab.com
Let’s chat!
Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab!
Reach out directly: [email protected]
Learn more: bonetponcelab.com
Let’s chat!
Reposted by Armando Rubio Ramos
I found these immune cells just finished mitosis but their midbody is still yet to be resolved. How cool? If you zoom in to the midbody, you can see its classical shape just like in the textbooks. I love these little details.
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I found these immune cells just finished mitosis but their midbody is still yet to be resolved. How cool? If you zoom in to the midbody, you can see its classical shape just like in the textbooks. I love these little details.
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Stoked to share TWO preprints on mitochondrial pearling! 🎉
We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and
@gavsturm.bsky.social
et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪
We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and
@gavsturm.bsky.social
et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪
December 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Stoked to share TWO preprints on mitochondrial pearling! 🎉
We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and
@gavsturm.bsky.social
et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪
We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and
@gavsturm.bsky.social
et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪
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1/6 Extremely happy to share my PhD work is out on bioRxiv! We discovered that microtubules deform mitotic centrosomes. When we removed them, the SPD-5 scaffold became denser but didn't lose material. This suggests it's an elastically deformable solid! This only happens in mitosis.
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
1/6 Extremely happy to share my PhD work is out on bioRxiv! We discovered that microtubules deform mitotic centrosomes. When we removed them, the SPD-5 scaffold became denser but didn't lose material. This suggests it's an elastically deformable solid! This only happens in mitosis.
Heading to HD! Despite my sleepy face I can promise that Im very excited to join the Seeing is Believing 2025 @events.embl.org If you are interested in centrosomes, centrioles, expansion microscopy or protist, don't be shy and let's have a chat! ☺️🤗 #EMBLSymposium #microscopy
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Heading to HD! Despite my sleepy face I can promise that Im very excited to join the Seeing is Believing 2025 @events.embl.org If you are interested in centrosomes, centrioles, expansion microscopy or protist, don't be shy and let's have a chat! ☺️🤗 #EMBLSymposium #microscopy
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UNIGE postdoc? 🎓 Interested in sharing your research in a friendly seminar? Join the new SCIENCE CLUB with Physics, Chemistry & Biology colleagues! Contact us for details 👍 Not a postdoc? Please share with yours!
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
UNIGE postdoc? 🎓 Interested in sharing your research in a friendly seminar? Join the new SCIENCE CLUB with Physics, Chemistry & Biology colleagues! Contact us for details 👍 Not a postdoc? Please share with yours!