Welcome to the new general-use twitter for Auburn University 's Molette Lab! From here we'll be promoting lab news, including research cruises!

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Members from the Molette lab are currently at sea on the R/V Oceanus participating in a project to study whale bone-eating worms!

Lander 1 is on its way down!

Landers 2 and 3 are safely on the bottom!

Each lander has wood, whale bones, and "control" substrates.

This work is part of a collaboration with Dr. Craig Smith's lab at the University of Hawaii to study deep-sea ecology and phylogeography.

Waves up to 13 feet but at least it's sunny :)

Five landers down, one to go!

All six landers are safely on the bottom. Hopefully they're being colonized by inverts as we speak! Now we're on to benthic sampling.

Trawl is on its way up from 4500+ meters!

We're on a limited internet connection so we haven't been able to upload photos of animals from the trawls... Stay tuned.

Taking grad student servitude to a whole new level - Molette Lab PI Scott Santos gets a ride.

Molette Lab students Auburn University AU Explore outreach event! #wareagle

3 Molette Lab students attending Frontiers of Phylogenetics symposium at the #smithsonian. Live-tweeting #genomics!

Rob deSalle from #amnh up first, "My students could do my dissertation in 5 minutes."

With next gen sequencing, today's students can do a 1980's thesis in a thousandth of a second. #genomics

Day 2 at #PhyloFrontiers2013, great informal talks/discussion of phylogenomic methods.

Excited to see UMD's Adam Bazinet give a shout-out to Kevin Kocot & #mollusc #phylogenomics at #PhyloFrontiers2013 !!