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Funky bumpy smelt scales! Colors are surface topography where red = higher. Taken with GelSight, Inc. #fish #research #biology #biomechanics

Scales of a marine angelfish... somehow not very angelic? #fish #biology #ScienceTwitter #marinelife

Please share: I am recruiting two students (Ph.D. or M.S.) and a postdoc (2-years) to start in my lab Fall 2023. My lab studies functional morphology and macroevolution (mostly of fishes) More info: edwardburress.com/prospective-st…

Pleased that our OA paper is out in iScience journal "3D visualization processes for recreating and studying organismal form" We discuss 3D methods for recreating living animals - w/applications for natural history, robotics & more 🦑😁 cell.com/iscience/fullt…

The final version of our paper is out today in IOB!

Scales of the redbreast sunfish showing a subtle transition from smooth-edged to spiny-edged. We typically think of these as different scale “types” that occur on different species. #fishes #marinebio

The He Lab Qixin He investigates infectious disease dynamics by integrating theory & empirical data. We develop new statistical tools to resolve mixed infections and predict when new disease variants would invade local transmissions. Check our website at qixinhe.net

Dylan Wainwright Dylan Wainwright is a new professor here Purdue Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and is recruiting graduate students and postdocs. He studies connections between form and function in organisms (mostly fishes and sharks) by using 3D imaging, biomechanical testing, and comparative studies. 1/2

Why did the earliest plant vascular systems diversify so rapidly? We think they evolved to tolerate drought. We show why xylem connectivity was critical for preventing hydraulic failure. Martin Bouda Wason Lab Kyra Prats @HuggettLab Jonathan Wilson 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thankful to share our new #stickyfish paper in Journal of Experimental Biology before Twitter explodes! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24… Dylan Wainwright Adam P. Summers Dr. Karly E. Cohen & I found that the adhesive performance of clingfish, lumpsuckers, and snailfish suction discs reflect their ecologies 🧵1/6

Issue 22’s cover image by Dr. Jonathan Huie shows the fluorescent ventral adhesive disc of a northern clingfish. In the accompanying article, Dr. Jonathan Huie Dylan Wainwright Adam P. Summers Dr. Karly E. Cohen compare the maximum adhesive forces of clingfish, lumpsuckers & snailfish journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

How are structural variations in scales related to different functions in fish? Dylan Wainwright (Dylan Wainwright) at the department of Purdue Biological Sciences Purdue University (Purdue University) tackles this & other questions in this new article👉 bit.ly/3XsiGtV #microscopy #biology