Chromatin 🤝EvoDevo and explains how skates evolved their wings 🧚 I am so thrilled about the publication of our little skate paper, a big collaborative effort with Tetsuya Nakamura Darío G. Lupiáñez Rafael Domínguez Acemel Juan Tena Dan Rokhsar and the late Jose Luis Gomez Skar ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our 2nd exciting joint project with the power duo @chrmosimann & @aburger2009 is now at biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Last time Zbynek Kozmik made transgenic #amphioxus for nature.com/articles/s4146…, this time we made a triple enhancer KO in mice. That’s what I call lab flexibility.

The ZoonomiaProject’s sequencing of more than 240 mammal genomes is paving new roads for understanding mammalian diversity and evolution and ourselves. Learn more in a new special issue of Science: scim.ag/2oO #Zoonomia

Happy to share our TOGA manuscript, now out in Science. Project started 6 years ago, we and others already used TOGA in numerous projects. TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference, and scales to hundreds of genomes. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Hooray, it’s #FluorescenceFriday! And we are admiring the beautiful work of Cassie Kemmler, @chrmosimann @aburger2009 @blockintheback Kristen Kwan Lab & colleagues. They share their next-generation plasmids for transgenesis in zebrafish and more! Development: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Seeing humans through an evolutionary lens science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I am so proud! Big congratulations to a former PhD student of Zbynek Kozmik and alumnus of Institute of Molecular Genetics Peter Fabian.

If you don't get it, you don't get it Download our (updated) massive database of POSTDOC fellowships. We list 373 fellowships w/ description, $ amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). HERE: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In our new nature paper, Darrin Schultz Darrin Schultz used the position of genes on chromosomes to show that ctenophores (comb jellies) not sponges are the sister-group to all other animals. nature.com/articles/s4158…

For 100s of years, sponges were assumed to have split first. In 2008 a transcriptome-based study led by Casey Dunn suggested ctenophores were sister to other Metazoa. The debate has bounced back and forth, ever since, even with more genomes sequenced.

Congrats to a former PhD student of Zbynek Kozmik and alumnus of Institute of Molecular Genetics Peter Fabian for receiving the prestigious #ERCStG. Well deserved! You are such a great person. Smart recruitment by MUNI Science and great boost for Czech DevBio community. Go Peto, go... @Fabian_Lab

From Fish to Mammals: Unraveling Brachyury Control in the Notochord by @aburger2009 & Zbynek Kozmik, w/Emma Farley 🇪🇺 TheYunLab @AxelVisel.bsky.social Marco Osterwalder Licia Selleri @FishEvoDevoGeno & teams is now out in nature.com/articles/s4146… Wonderful collaboration. Happy to be part of it!