Pleistocene mammals see this and be like “pack your things, we’re moving”

This is a rare look at a mountain lion on its way to cache (or store) its food. The lion will return to their cache over the next few days to continue eating.

When your antibody sucks and what little signal is there is just buried in background

My first dissertation chapter is out in mBio! We cultured a vertically transmitted endosymbiont, sequenced its genome, and showed that it is stably inherited across generation when injected into new hosts!

A herd of shrimps, eating Petco mystery pellets, looms yonder.

Imagine growing a miniature version of the human intestine in the lab to study gut biology in great detail and test medicines before clinical trials? We are happy to share our latest publication on bioengineered human mini-intestines: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S19… Let’s dive in!

We have a new pre-print! We characterize the recent, dynamic evolution of caspase-1, caspase-4, and friends 🥰

Took a Timelapse to commemorate this #sponge being 6 months old! Alas, an unexpected bout of shrimp cannibalism has stolen the show…

Zooming in and speeding it up a touch, we once again see Ephydatia muelleri constitutively secreting (presumably) sponge waste along mucosal tracts 😀 #sponge #biology

Well this is fun :) Looks like there’s a planarian hanging out in this sponge’s osculum #sponge #biology #invertebrates

The first week of the 2024 Symbiosis Course Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is in the books! We studied various cnidarian model organisms to study the molecular and cellular bases of symbiosis. So fun! On to squid, sponges, and amoebas this week! #MBLSYM2024 Moore Foundation Inc

Our short report on a remarkable feature of #ctenophores out now: Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis. We show that Mnemiopsis is capable of reversal from mature lobate to early cydippid🤩. Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen bioRxiv #rejuvenation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hello folks! With exciting new grants and new projects in our lab, ✨we are hiring!✨ Please share with prospective Ph.D. students and/or postdocs interested in evolution, genetics, and microbes!

The proteins have learned to crochet

Great lab with awesome model to study origins of animals. Apply.

PhD candidate in the Nichols Lab here 👋 Feel free to reach out !

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First nuclear tests, then #AgentOrange now the long suffering Johnston Atoll faces #SpaceX and its #military transport plans “If we scare the [birds] off of this island, they don’t have another place to go.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…