Fish have the genetic programs to make limbs! Cool paper by the Harris lab. Can't wait to walk through it, or swim through it, or fly through it... perhaps I have the potential for all! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

‘How like thy wing's impatient zeal // Is the pure soul, that rests not, pent // Within this world's gross element’ T. Moore 1806. Intersection of phylogenomics and forward genetics to identify genetics of the evolution of flight in fishes. doi.org/10.1101/2021.0…

“You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to adapt to scorching or freezing environments. You look at a fish that knows how to do it already,” says Stephen Treaster of HMS Genetics Department and Boston Children's hvrd.me/eC4H30rGcie

What can the “living fossil” bowfin tell us about fin evolution & development? Harris lab & I teamed up with @FishEvoDevoGeno @DrewT1023 et al. to make omics resources to investigate fins in this enigmatic fish See highlights of our findings below! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fish species vary greatly in the relative size of their fins, but how is fin size specified? With Harris lab, we combine forward genetic screens in zebrafish and comparative genomics in flying fishes to ID mechanisms regulating fin size authors.elsevier.com/c/1dlqf3QW8Rwp… Current Biology

Unlocking the potential for healthy aging may require a global effort by scientists & entrepreneurs. Meet the NAM Healthy Longevity #QuickFireChallenge awardees: Stephen Treaster, Byteflies, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, & SYNCSENSE: jji.jnj/nam

Excited to participate in this absolutely stacked symposium line up on December 8. Open to all! Just register below and come join for a fun day filled with awesome evo-devo talks! stowers.org/sites/default/… Thanks to Nicolas Rohner Stowers Institute Stowers Research Conferences for organizing

Fantastic and humorous journey with great animation. Working on means to isolate the flying ones as currently they ‘escape’ such experimental approaches and would be underrepresented in screens Harris lab Jacob Daane

‘Twas the year of Rockfish and all through the house…Use of Rockfish evolutionary model to refine human genomic signals of longevity. Preprint doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… with D. Karasik @Joris_Deelen & J. Moribito of CHARGE. Stephen Treaster Jacob Daane finding signals of good livin'

We're recruiting postdocs in the Daane lab at UHouston! Many #evodevo projects available. Combine comparative genomics and zebrafish genetics to develop a unique research program. PM or email if interested. Check out our website for more info: daanelab.org (1/3)

How are different types of fins & limbs related? Do the same genes guide how different appendages form? I w/ davidjandzik Tetsuya Nakamura Neil Shubin & others have added a piece to this evolutionary puzzle in this week’s PNASNews cover story. Thread: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Blind Mexican #cavefish are developing cave-specific accents. 📷 #𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑥 𝑚𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠 - blind cave #tetra 🔗 New Scientist - bit.ly/3JLcOUK 🔓 Preprint - bit.ly/3JCfhAN

Help #SpreadTheWord! We are still recruiting dogs of all ages, all #breeds, all sizes, all across the US (one per household) ... but we would especially love to meet more #dogs in these areas (see📸). 🐾Join the Dog Aging Pack at dogagingproject.org #tellafriend #doggos

Share: I'm on the hunt for Ambystoma salamanders. Specifically, the all-female kind. We are hoping to fill in our current sampling for experiments in summer 2023. Do you work with amphibians or know someone who does on this map? Especially PA, NY, NJ, MA. Message me if so!

Applications NOW OPEN👩‍🔬 Biology of Aging Advanced Research Training Course @MBLscience July 23 – Aug 19, 2023 An immerive research course training PhD students and postdocs central concepts in modern geroscience APPLY HERE: mbl.edu/boa William Mair Jennifer Garrison

The longevity of rockfishes—which can live more than 100 years—comes from genes tied to insulin signaling and flavonoid metabolism, according to new research in Science Advances that also evaluated the influence of equivalent genes on human aging. scim.ag/1bR

And now out… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… like fine wine, aging well … just like me (and rockfish)

Ironic how the theme of the work is timing and I am exhibiting poor mastery of that... Fabulous work by Nicola Blum to understand factors that shape coordinated growth of somatic clones, modeling human overgrowth syndromes in zebrafish. Opening up new areas for disease modeling!

Rather than relying on the usual model organisms, Harris lab researchers BCH Innovation News used rockfish to discover new genetic pathways connected to longevity. They published their work in Science Advances. ow.ly/AQ9E50OkOTQ

Our latest paper is out - a new method called "TIME-Seq" to measure biological age for just a few dollars. Great work Patrick Griffin! Nature Aging Free download rdcu.be/dvDfc