Very happy that my first contribution to the cichlid community is out🐠🐟🐠. This review was the outcome of the Genome editing workshop at Cichlid Science 2022. We hope it will be useful for the community! Check Bethan Clark's thread for details.

Excited to say our review of genome editing in cichlid fishes, focusing on CRISPR/Cas9 tech, is now published in Royal Society Publishing #OpenBiology !

Link here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Some highlights in🧵

And a big THANK YOU to Dept of Zoology for the huge amount of help and support in setting it all up 🤍🖤

And that's it for #cichlidsci22 ! See you all next time!

Brilliant talk by Alex Hooft on his work on the genomics of fisheries induced adaptation #cichlidsci22

And it’s time for the last talk of #cichlidsci22 : Joana Meier shares her fascinating work on how genetic admixture facilitated rapid adaptive radiations

Great talk from Avner Cnaani discussing using RNAseq data to detect allele specific expression #cichlidsci22

It's the last day of #cichlidsci22 ! Mary Kishe from TAFIRI is starting the day with a keynote talk on the extinction and resurgence of haplochromines in Lake Victoria 🐟

Fantastic finish of today's programme with Pascal Hablützel walking us through MHC gene evolution in cichlids, closing a great session on gene (family) evolution. #cichlidsci22

We'll be back to tweeting tomorrow for our last session.

Next Maxime Policarpo with a fascinating talk on the evolution of chemosensory systems in Tanganyikan cichlids. #cichlidsci22

Here we go for the last Cichlid Science 2022 session of the day, on speciation and adaption genomics. Julia Camacho with a great talk on the evolution of vision-related genes in the Malawi cichlid radiation.

Rounding out the behaviour session, Svantje Grätsch walks us through the complex behaviours involved in turning a shell into a home for 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 #cichlidsci22

The behaviour session goes on with Cody Garcia, telling us about his cool work on behavioural tendencies in different Lake Tanganyika cichlids. #cichlidsci22

Starting off our next session on behavior is James Herbert-Read with a great keynote on individual and collective perception in fishes 🐟 #cichlidsci22

Continuing with crater lakes, great talk from Axel Meyer MeyerLab_Konstanz on the genomics of repeated adaptations and parallel speciation of Midas cichlids

Next up Dmytro Omelchenko (from Zuzana Musilova - FISHEVO 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 fish-evo lab in Prague) shares his insights into the molecular basis of hypoxia adaptation in crater lake cichlids