Dictyostelium discoideum occupies a unique position at the border between free-living cells and multicellular organisms. In the 4 July Nature, the Dictyostelium Genome Sequencing Consortium reports ...

"Dictyostelium is a unicellular creature. If there is not enough food, cells assemble into a single multicellular organism ...

Our primary experimental system is the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. This allows us to use powerful molecular techniques to dissect autophagy in a simple model system. In addition, as ...