Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
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Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
@cdmacquarrie.bsky.social
Scientist at Arcadia Science
Berkeley, CA, USA
Cell Biology


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Discovered some unexpected growth phenotypes in Chlamydomonas flagellar mutants! The cpc1-1 strain (with central pair complex defects) shows surprising metabolic traits that might be independent of its flagellar defects. 🧵 research.arcadiascience.com/pub/observat... [1/9]
Chlamydomonas cpc1-1 mutant exhibits unexpected growth phenotypes
Comparative analysis of <i>Chlamydomonas </i>strains revealed that a <i>cpc1-1</i> mutant has three unexpected growth phenotypes across different media types, suggesting possible genetic background co...
research.arcadiascience.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
Happy Darwin Day! Today, we’re thinking about how to use evolution to accelerate biomedical research. We think the answer is to expand the repertoire of organismal models. Search for the best ones using our new portal, Zoogle: zoogle.arcadiascience.com 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Today at #CellBio24, I'll discuss our new pub at the "Quantitative Biology in Emerging Model Systems" subgroup session at 5:15 pm in Ballroom 20A. Come check it out!
December 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Today at #CellBio24, Dave Mets will be at poster B599 talking about mapping genotypes to phenotypes!

poster: zenodo.org/records/1449...
December 17, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Our new pub dropped this weekend!

For those at #CellBio24, I'll be at poster B73 starting at 11:15 am discussing this work!

I'll also be giving a talk on Tuesday at 5:15 pm in Ballroom 20A in the Quantitative Biology in Emerging Model Systems session

poster here: zenodo.org/records/14481493
December 16, 2024 at 5:28 PM
🧵 New from @arcadiascience.bsky.social: We used Chlamydomonas mutants to model specific types of spermatogenic failure and found drugs can rescue swimming behavior in mutation-specific ways. Full pub: research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-chlamy-spgf [1/8]
Rescuing Chlamydomonas motility in mutants modeling spermatogenic failure
We used Chlamydomonas reinhardtii motility mutants with disrupted genes homologous to human SPEF2 or DNALI1 to model spermatogenic failure disorders SPGF43 and SPGF83, respectively. We recovered aspec...
research.arcadiascience.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Tomorrow at #CellBio24, I'll be at poster (B73) talking about some fun new work we just released using Chlamydomonas to model spermatogenic failure.

Check out the poster here: zenodo.org/records/14481493

Join the fun and post your comments & questions on the pub!
bit.ly/chlamy-spgf
December 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Happening soon at #CellBio24 @ascbiology.bsky.social

Ryan York's poster (B574) on a data-driven approach to selecting your model organism @arcadiascience.bsky.social

Poster here: zenodo.org/records/14479386

Join the fun & post your comments & questions on the pub!
bit.ly/evolutionary...
December 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Reposted by Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
December 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
If you’re at #CellBio2024 drop by Ryan’s poster today (Board B574) to hear the latest from @arcadiascience.bsky.social about how you can choose the right model system for your research or find areas best studied in the species you have expertise/infrastructure
Poster and publications below
December 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
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October 19, 2024 at 2:14 AM

Two weeks ago we @arcadiascience.bsky.social posted our final, major update to our Chlamydomonas sp. phenotypic variation pub! research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...! A lot of new findings in the 🧵!!! 1/9
Phenotypic differences between interfertile Chlamydomonas species · Genetics: Decoding evolutionary...
We’re crossing C. reinhardtii and C. smithii algae for high-throughput genotype-phenotype mapping. In preparation, we’re comparing the parents to uncover unique species-specific phenotypes.
research.arcadiascience.com
December 13, 2023 at 7:03 PM
🎉 Excited to share our latest work at #CellBio23! I'll be presenting a poster on our pub “Phenotypic differences between interfertile Chlamydomonas species” and our continued work in the Protists and Parasites Cell Biology poster session (Board #723) @arcadiascience.bsky.social
December 1, 2023 at 9:28 PM
DALL-E's take on a colored pencil sketch of Chlamydomonas
November 11, 2023 at 4:35 AM
Are you a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii or Chlamydomonas smithii?

Find out here!!!

www.buzzfeed.com/cameronmacqu...

#SpiritAlgae

And check out the latest version of our @arcadiascience.bsky.social pub comparing the 2 species!

research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...

#ArcadiaGenetics
Are You Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Or Chlamydomonas Smithii?
Which microalgal species are you? Read the pub here: https://research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-chlamydomonas-phenotypes/
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September 6, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
🗣️ Calling all microscopy enthusiasts!

We're looking for publicly available, open-source video data featuring bright-field, DIC, or phase-contrast images. These data will complement our own in a new study on focus-filtering techniques.

Please comment with a link to a public repository!
September 1, 2023 at 9:55 PM
New pub update from @arcadiascience.bsky.social! ! We've just released an update to our research on the 2D cell morphology of C. reinhardtii and C. smithii, two interfertile algal species.

research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...
September 1, 2023 at 9:47 PM