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Undergraduate Research Experience and Training Placements for underrepresented ethnic groups 👇

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Very slick David Rivas 🕺🏼

It’s true 😭 I miss mine 😭

Join us at Genome Science UK 2024, the premier gathering for genomics researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders in the UK. Bristol, July 16th-18th
bristol.genomescience.org.uk/register/

Limited early-bird registration discounts are available until 30th April!!!

The role of exploratory behavior (and it’s genetic basis) in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake. See our latest work in Science Magazine. Congrats to all including M. Emília Santos Bethan Clark Michael Matschiner Tschopp Lab Milan Malinsky Walter Salzburger Lab University of Basel

Meticulous and exciting work by Max Farnworth and team on the evolution of mushroom body structure and associated cell types 👏🏻

Delighted to see these two papers come out. They build on my earlier PhD work where we (1) showed that #hybrid songbirds take intermediate routes to pure forms on #migration and (2) mapped migratory orientation to a region on chromosome 4. (1/3)🐦🧬

Meticulous and exciting work by Max Farnworth and team on the evolution of mushroom body structure and associated cell types 👏🏻

Really pleased to share our new preprint on Mosaic evolution of a learning and memory circuit in Heliconiini butterflies. This has been a long time coming! A lot of thought & energy has gone into it. I hope you like the read. Stephen Montgomery #brainevolution 1/13 tinyurl.com/bdhcu62u

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How does computation in the brain evolve? In a new review I argue that studying retinal circuits across species may just hold some key answers: shorturl.at/wFMT9

New paper in Current Biology from our collaboration with Scott Taylor on genetics of variation in spatial cognitive abilities in food-caching chickadees. New reference genome, 162 full genomes.
cell.com/current-biolog…

A fully funded PhD fellowship is available in my lab to work on the evolution of visual systems in mosquitos (sc-genomics + comparative genomics). The application deadline is Thursday, 23rd of May. For details and to apply, visit warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… Please apply and RT.

Happy and proud to present the peer reviewed version of our Pristina Cell Atlas paper, out now in Nature Communications Nature Communications !

We study annelid stem cells, differentiated cells, and how the former give rise to the latter.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! Michael Sheehan, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

New review on the variations of the insect central complex across species! Freely available here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/articl... European Research Council (ERC) Lund Vision Group

🔍 Differentiating fly species by eye, especially their larvae, is a tough task.
🧠 But on a temperature gradient, we discovered distinct behaviours.
🏔️ These temperature preference shifts align with their ecologies!
Read more in our latest preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some really beautiful new results from PhD student José Borrero: Heliconius🦋species that invest more in their optic lobes weigh visual cues more strongly than closely related species, with Stephen Montgomery salazar.camilo Carolina Pardo EvoBioMunich Universität München URosario

How Humans and Apes Are Different, and Why It Matters | Journal of Anthropological Research: Vol 74, No 2 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…