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Just in time for the holidays: our first study on reptile lung development! Combines time-lapse imaging of anole lungs with next-gen sequencing, computational modeling, and optogenetics! 🦎🫁 Stress ball morphogenesis: How the lizard builds its lung science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

You can read more about the backstory and inspiration for the lizard lung project in this article by Scott Lyon featured on the Princeton University homepage! princeton.edu/news/2021/12/2…

How does tissue mechanics affect the dynamics of cellular signaling? So happy to share this case study by the fantastic @PayamFarahani on stiffness and EGFR/Erk. With fluorescent reporters and new optogenetic constructs - plus lots of movies! 🔦🧬🎥

It’s #NationalBirdDay so I naturally have to highlight some of the amazing birds we have on the cape. Shown here are a double-crested cormorant, sanderling, and greater yellowlegs all photographed in October when it wasn’t quite so cold out!

Nothing like clamming in a frozen bay to really make it feel like a New England winter

Me adding yet another new model organism to the list of ones I’ve studied

Awesome article about our paper by Mahya Fazel-Zarandi for the The Daily Princetonian!

Amazing to see that our work was highlighted by the U.S. National Science Foundation in an article with an awesome quote from Tissue Morphodynamics Group. So much to learn about development and engineering from studying new model systems! nsf.gov/discoveries/di…

While ice forming on the windows of our house isn’t really ~ideal~ it is still quite beautiful

I’ll be presenting at this exciting new online journal club on February 16th! I’ll be discussing not only the results but also giving a behind-the-scenes look at the hard work and collaboration that lead to the publication. Hoping it will be helpful for early-career scientists!

We are super excited to host Michael A Palmer tomorrow at 3PM PST to talk about his recent Science Advances article "Stress ball morphogenesis: How the lizard builds its lung"! Join our stream: twitch.tv/thepapertrailj…

Happy fluorescence Friday! Shown here is an in situ for Sox9 (green) and Col2a1 (magenta) in the cartilage from an embryonic skate

Happy fluorescence Friday! Shown here is the beautiful process of gill arch formation in the embryonic little skate. The staining is dapi (cyan) and phalloidin (red)

Dancing cause it’s Friday 🕺🏼Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

Just got back from Italy where I attended an amazing #cartilageGRC. Thanks to the organizers and all the other attendees for making it such a fun conference! Lots of great people, great science, and great views.

Finally had a chance to develop my roll of film from #cartilageGRC !Missing these views

Nudibranch appreciation post 🌊 these strange and majestic creatures are all found in the waters around Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

#DBfeature 🌊 Fgf signalling is required for gill slit formation in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea by Jenaid Rees, Michael Palmer, Andrew Gillis Andrew Gillis Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…