Konstantinos Kalyviotis
@kkalyviotis.bsky.social
Wellcome Trust Early-Career Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute & King's College London | Rosenblatt Lab | PhD in Bioengineering 🧬 #CellExtrusion #GenEPi #PrimedConversion #λOPM #bioSHG nanoprobes (he/him)
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Thrilled & incredibly honoured to receive a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award! @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🙌
Can't wait to start my research on how epithelial tissues maintain homeostasis at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London & the Rosenblatt Lab! 🧪🔬🐟
Stay tuned-I’ll be hiring soon!
Can't wait to start my research on how epithelial tissues maintain homeostasis at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London & the Rosenblatt Lab! 🧪🔬🐟
Stay tuned-I’ll be hiring soon!
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Join the #YoRC (Young Researchers Committee) for a #Sustainability Webinar in One Week! Entitled "From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities" Register here for free:
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Discover how zebrafish labs and other aquatic research facilities are leading the way towards greener science! Learn how labs are cutting water and energy use, reducing waste, and exploring sustainable...
zoom.us
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Join the #YoRC (Young Researchers Committee) for a #Sustainability Webinar in One Week! Entitled "From Tank to Planet - Advancing sustainability in Aquatic Research Facilities" Register here for free:
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The Young Researcher Committee (#YoRC) of #IZFS/#EZS would like to invite you to our sustainability webinar "From Tank to Planet: Advancing sustainability in aquatic research facilities."
Nov. 6th @ 11 am EST.
Registration is free! See below for link & more details!
#zebrafish #sustainability
Nov. 6th @ 11 am EST.
Registration is free! See below for link & more details!
#zebrafish #sustainability
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The Young Researcher Committee (#YoRC) of #IZFS/#EZS would like to invite you to our sustainability webinar "From Tank to Planet: Advancing sustainability in aquatic research facilities."
Nov. 6th @ 11 am EST.
Registration is free! See below for link & more details!
#zebrafish #sustainability
Nov. 6th @ 11 am EST.
Registration is free! See below for link & more details!
#zebrafish #sustainability
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Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
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Back from the London Zebrafish Research Network — a truly inspiring afternoon. Many thanks to @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, @kkalyviotis.bsky.social and Eleni for putting together such an interactive programme, full of excellent talks - Tim 👏 - and great discussions. Zebbie research at its best!
October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Back from the London Zebrafish Research Network — a truly inspiring afternoon. Many thanks to @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, @kkalyviotis.bsky.social and Eleni for putting together such an interactive programme, full of excellent talks - Tim 👏 - and great discussions. Zebbie research at its best!
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Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:
From molecular structures to research culture: Celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s legacy | Royal Society
Rosalind Franklin never lived to see the full impact of her discoveries. She didn’t witness how her work on DNA would revolutionise biology, nor did she witness the impact she would have in…
royalsociety.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:
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I received some old microscopy slides from the 1800s, when at-home microscopes made it possible to look at hidden worlds of diatoms, polycystina, and other teeny tiny things.
I made this website so people today can take a look too: microspeci.men
Enjoy! #scienceisforeveryone #microscopy #HistSci
I made this website so people today can take a look too: microspeci.men
Enjoy! #scienceisforeveryone #microscopy #HistSci
July 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I received some old microscopy slides from the 1800s, when at-home microscopes made it possible to look at hidden worlds of diatoms, polycystina, and other teeny tiny things.
I made this website so people today can take a look too: microspeci.men
Enjoy! #scienceisforeveryone #microscopy #HistSci
I made this website so people today can take a look too: microspeci.men
Enjoy! #scienceisforeveryone #microscopy #HistSci
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Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at atinygreencell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. Please share! 💚
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Sebastian's Biotech Bazaar
Designer of fine, hand-crafted, bespoke, and fully open source biotechnology tools for educators and researchers. Plasmids, lab equipment, cell lines, and seeds. An ever-growing collection of high qua...
ATinyGreenCell.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at atinygreencell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. Please share! 💚
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🔬 @christlet.bsky.social, @henriqueslab.bsky.social, and colleagues introduce the Structural Repetition Detector (SreD), an unsupervised approach for identifying repetitive biological structures in #Fluorescence #Microscopy data.
🔗 Click to check it out: go.nature.com/44g9fDG
#Microscope #Imaging
🔗 Click to check it out: go.nature.com/44g9fDG
#Microscope #Imaging
July 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🔬 @christlet.bsky.social, @henriqueslab.bsky.social, and colleagues introduce the Structural Repetition Detector (SreD), an unsupervised approach for identifying repetitive biological structures in #Fluorescence #Microscopy data.
🔗 Click to check it out: go.nature.com/44g9fDG
#Microscope #Imaging
🔗 Click to check it out: go.nature.com/44g9fDG
#Microscope #Imaging
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🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here:
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing
tol2kit for kwan lab
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here:
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing
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PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
July 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
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Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
June 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
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Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)
June 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)
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New tools! GreenPy and ApplePy are fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate with huge responses (20–40x in vitro) and a range of affinities (10s of μM to mM). These should be game changers for imaging of metabolism! Great work by Shosei Imai @sikmys.bsky.social and team 👏. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-performance genetically-encoded green and red fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate
Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis and a central metabolite involved in many biochemical pathways. However, a lack of high-performance (i.e., Δ F / F > 10) single fluorescent protein (FP)-base...
www.biorxiv.org
April 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New tools! GreenPy and ApplePy are fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate with huge responses (20–40x in vitro) and a range of affinities (10s of μM to mM). These should be game changers for imaging of metabolism! Great work by Shosei Imai @sikmys.bsky.social and team 👏. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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When it comes to creating plots of your data, are you team 'web apps' or 'vibe coding' with genAI-based tools? 📊
In this post, Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social discusses the potentials and pitfalls of both approaches in data visualization:
In this post, Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social discusses the potentials and pitfalls of both approaches in data visualization:
Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls - the Node
Anyone—regardless of coding skills—should be able to generate a publication-quality plot of their data in minutes. That was the main motivation to develop
thenode.biologists.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
When it comes to creating plots of your data, are you team 'web apps' or 'vibe coding' with genAI-based tools? 📊
In this post, Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social discusses the potentials and pitfalls of both approaches in data visualization:
In this post, Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social discusses the potentials and pitfalls of both approaches in data visualization:
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We've updated our preprint that reports on a "mTurquoise2-based glucose biosensor" with data of HeLa cells - the movie shows the effect of adding 5 mM of Glucose
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We've updated our preprint that reports on a "mTurquoise2-based glucose biosensor" with data of HeLa cells - the movie shows the effect of adding 5 mM of Glucose
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Konstantinos Kalyviotis @kkalyviotis.bsky.social had a poster on combining #RamanImaging with #HiLo at #biologists100. We loved hearing how Konstantinos is using this technique to answer questions in cell and developmental biology.
March 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Konstantinos Kalyviotis @kkalyviotis.bsky.social had a poster on combining #RamanImaging with #HiLo at #biologists100. We loved hearing how Konstantinos is using this technique to answer questions in cell and developmental biology.
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We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images.
Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site.
mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do...
Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️
Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site.
mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do...
Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️
January 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images.
Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site.
mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do...
Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️
Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site.
mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do...
Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️
Reposted by Konstantinos Kalyviotis
There's still time to book your slot in your next workshop! All you need to know to share your research datasets over coffee/tea and snacks! 💻☕🍵
Come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...
Come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...
Sharing is caring: open data, better science
Join us for a workshop on discussing and learning about all things data sharing!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
There's still time to book your slot in your next workshop! All you need to know to share your research datasets over coffee/tea and snacks! 💻☕🍵
Come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...
Come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...
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Every once in a while we publish a paper that moves a whole field forward. I think that's the case for this one from the Bugaj lab, where they describe proteins for THERMOGENETIC control of cellular behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A temperature-inducible protein module for control of mammalian cell fate - Nature Methods
The Melt (Membrane localization using temperature) protein translocates to the plasma membrane upon temperature shift. Melt variants with a range of switching temperatures enable straightforward therm...
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Every once in a while we publish a paper that moves a whole field forward. I think that's the case for this one from the Bugaj lab, where they describe proteins for THERMOGENETIC control of cellular behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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IZFS Webinar Tomorrow: Studying Hematopoiesis & Solid Tumors in Zebrafish.
Presented by Joey Ghersi, PhD and Madeline Hayes, PhD at 2:00pm EST. IZFS Webinars are FREE to members, and only $25 to non-members.
Register here today! izfs.execinc.com/edibo/Webinars
Presented by Joey Ghersi, PhD and Madeline Hayes, PhD at 2:00pm EST. IZFS Webinars are FREE to members, and only $25 to non-members.
Register here today! izfs.execinc.com/edibo/Webinars
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
IZFS Webinar Tomorrow: Studying Hematopoiesis & Solid Tumors in Zebrafish.
Presented by Joey Ghersi, PhD and Madeline Hayes, PhD at 2:00pm EST. IZFS Webinars are FREE to members, and only $25 to non-members.
Register here today! izfs.execinc.com/edibo/Webinars
Presented by Joey Ghersi, PhD and Madeline Hayes, PhD at 2:00pm EST. IZFS Webinars are FREE to members, and only $25 to non-members.
Register here today! izfs.execinc.com/edibo/Webinars
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Hello Bluesky 👋! We are excited to officially join the #zebrafish community here on BlueSky! This is the official account for the International Zebrafish Society! Be sure to give us a follow to stay up to date on all things IZFS 🐟
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hello Bluesky 👋! We are excited to officially join the #zebrafish community here on BlueSky! This is the official account for the International Zebrafish Society! Be sure to give us a follow to stay up to date on all things IZFS 🐟
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Only a few days left to register for our upcoming developmental biology symposium #beddingtonconf.
📅 10-11 Feb
📍 The Crick
🎟️ 24 Jan registration deadline
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-3rd-cr...
📅 10-11 Feb
📍 The Crick
🎟️ 24 Jan registration deadline
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-3rd-cr...
The 3rd Crick Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium
Save the date for the 3rd Crick Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Only a few days left to register for our upcoming developmental biology symposium #beddingtonconf.
📅 10-11 Feb
📍 The Crick
🎟️ 24 Jan registration deadline
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-3rd-cr...
📅 10-11 Feb
📍 The Crick
🎟️ 24 Jan registration deadline
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-3rd-cr...
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Happening today at 6 PM IST! Do join us!
We have the first Gulmohar talk of 2025 here!
Nikhil Mishra and Thamarailingam will talk about their work this time.
🗓️14 Jan
⏰6 PM IST
If you would like to attend, please fill out this form and we'll share the Zoom link.
forms.gle/ooiFFVhVzvnm...
Nikhil Mishra and Thamarailingam will talk about their work this time.
🗓️14 Jan
⏰6 PM IST
If you would like to attend, please fill out this form and we'll share the Zoom link.
forms.gle/ooiFFVhVzvnm...
January 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Happening today at 6 PM IST! Do join us!
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Ever wondered how to manipulate mechanical forces in the developing zebrafish heart?🤓
Check out our new protocol by @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬
app.jove.com/t/67604/mani...
Check out our new protocol by @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬
app.jove.com/t/67604/mani...
January 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ever wondered how to manipulate mechanical forces in the developing zebrafish heart?🤓
Check out our new protocol by @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬
app.jove.com/t/67604/mani...
Check out our new protocol by @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬
app.jove.com/t/67604/mani...
Reposted by Konstantinos Kalyviotis
#JOBSEARCH If you are looking for a good old experienced scientist for consulting, copy-editing and all kind of science related jobs. Microscopy, cell biology, harm reduction, blaschka models. Based in France as I am supporting my wife's career and it matters. Please re post, send any offer my way
January 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#JOBSEARCH If you are looking for a good old experienced scientist for consulting, copy-editing and all kind of science related jobs. Microscopy, cell biology, harm reduction, blaschka models. Based in France as I am supporting my wife's career and it matters. Please re post, send any offer my way