Arendt Lab

Lab of Detlev Arendt, tweets by *any* of the lab members. Working to understand cell type evolution with the weirdest beasties we can find!

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

https://t.co/23ujvW2OjO

Did you know that sponges can move? @FabianRuperti with @savitski_lab and @Prevedel_lab studied sponge movement and found an evolutionary ancient mechanism controlling cellular tension and defense which is also present in our vasculature! A thread 🧵:

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

A genome resource for the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii https://t.co/LB7PXNkjpl

[Scott Nichols @SANICHOLS_DU]

Happy to announce our new preprint on the ancestry of cell adhesion and self-recognition in animals! We used proteomics and structure-based searches to re-examine the Aggregation Factor from the classical sponge mode first studied by Henry Wilson in 1907! https://t.co/jeA7TUAAjo

[EMBL @embl]

Sponges lack muscles & neurons. Yet, they move. How?

EMBL Heidelberg Arendt Group @wormduty, @savitski_lab, @Prevedel_Lab & others, showed that sponge movement relies on an ancient relaxant-inflammatory response also found in vertebrate vascular systems.

https://t.co/JoQobxspiF

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

Our story about relaxing sponges is out today in @CurrentBiology! 🧽 For a concise summary, check out the thread below 👇

https://t.co/it2WG5eYBG

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

https://t.co/23ujvW2OjO

Did you know that sponges can move? @FabianRuperti with @savitski_lab and @Prevedel_lab studied sponge movement and found an evolutionary ancient mechanism controlling cellular tension and defense which is also present in our vasculature! A thread 🧵:

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

Many thanks to all the authors for this wonderful collaboration and additionally to:
-@SANICHOLS_DU and @diz_lab for the great feedback
-@althonos and @galicae for the support in python coding
-@itn_ignite and @embl EIPP for funding @FabianRuperti

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

https://t.co/23ujvW2OjO

Did you know that sponges can move? @FabianRuperti with @savitski_lab and @Prevedel_lab studied sponge movement and found an evolutionary ancient mechanism controlling cellular tension and defense which is also present in our vasculature! A thread 🧵:

[Arendt Lab @wormduty]

The ocean 🌊 in us: The maintenance of laminar flow is essential for both - sponge canal and vertebrate vascular system  Any deviation leads to the activation of this ancient conserved ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ response as a powerful defense reaction 🛡️.