Guppies and Giotto. A great day in Padova. Clelia Gasparini AndreaPilastro

📢Position alert! We're looking for a postdoc to investigate how host-associated #microbiomes assemble using #guppies as animal models 🦠🐟 Please RT!

New from Livia Pinzoni => Female reproductive fluid and male seminal fluid: a non-gametic conflict for post-mating control ow.ly/lGF650PQ68Q | #BiologyLetters #sexualselection #evolutionarybiology

With Clelia Gasparini and twitter-less Lisa Locatello and Maria Berica Rasotto

Come and work with us!!!

Interested in #animalwelfare and #behaviour? Less than 3 weeks to apply for our #fishsci SWBio DTP University of Bristol Biological Sciences project: swbio.ac.uk/files/2023/10/… Please repost and forward to those looking for a PhD, especially from underrepresented groups Animal behavior opportunities

New paper from my PhD out now! 🥳 We find evidence that female repro fluid can select sperm that produce better offspring, but from WITHIN an ejaculate! This was a case of asking one question and getting an answer to another... 🤔Jon Evans Rowan Lymbery royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper! With many co-authors (list below). We collect a massive database of studies linking temperature and reproduction, and identify key research gaps besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/26…

📢PhD fellowship available in our team📢 Combine microbial genomics, advanced imaging techniques and animal social behaviour to understand how microbiomes are transmitted between individuals 🐟🦠🧫🔬🧬 Please RT!

📢PhD opportunity in our team📢 Emerging contaminants: assess their environmental impact by coupling phenotypic and molecular studies, and characterize their mechanisms of toxicity (using -omics approaches) in model/target species or cell lines. 🧬🔬 Please RT!

Understanding why and how #microbiomes vary between animals is almost impossible. Here we tried to summarise and review what we currently know about the impact of #host factors in shaping microbiome #variation between animals 🦠🐭🐝🪰🐟 Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Should anyone be willing to try for a MSCA in Padova with me, pls reach out. The University of Padova provides excellent training and also a fellowship scheme for near-miss!

Our latest paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology showing that during heatwaves sublethal temperatures can yet be harmful if they inflict reproductive costs to insects. Great team effort Tom Ratz and TJ Chechi, Ph.D.! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

Out PhD students Sofia (UNIPD) and Yasmin (UNITO) are now in Madagascar ! They are on a mission to find and discover more about Madagascar cockroaches and crickets! Go girls! Cristina Tuni

1/2 We do know that PFAS might impair reproduction. In this paper we show that in guppies (P. reticulata) realistic concentrations of PFAS may affect reproductive phenotypic traits and gene expression in the testes. doi.org/10.1016/j.envi… Clelia Gasparini AndreaPilastro

Very excited to share our paper on how PFAS affect reproduction using guppies as model species. First outcome of our collaboration Marianna Pauletto on the topic 🎉

Super excited to be here in Erice for this wonderful workshop!!

Wonderful workshop at Erice,Sicily! Sexual Selection in a Changing World organized by ⁦Chiara Morosinotto⁩ ⁦AndreaPilastro⁩ ⁦Gil Rosenthal⁩ Tamás Székely We discussed how climatic conditions can alter sexual traits influencing adaptive changes and population viability

New work on cognitive plasticity in teleost fish. The environmental conditions experienced during embryonic and larval stages can significantly affect how individual zebrafish learn. doi.org/10.1016/j.bepr…

Finally, the circle closes: the last chapter of my PhD thesis is out! Proud to share our findings: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Clelia Gasparini Below, a little thread 🧵