Happy to share our latest research on octopuses! 🐙 Our new chromosome-scale Octopus vulgaris genome just came out bioRxiv ! 🧵 below 1/8 Link to the preprint is here:biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Picture credit Giovanna Ponte

Today is my first official day as an Assistant Professor in the Yale Department of Astronomy! It feels great to be home ❤️

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Did you know that sponges can move? @FabianRuperti with Savitski Lab and @Prevedel_lab studied sponge movement and found an evolutionary ancient mechanism controlling cellular tension and defense which is also present in our vasculature! A thread 🧵:

Congratulations @FabianRuperti !!! Beautiful work. 🎉

Our paper on the octopus genome made the cover Genetics Society of America G3! 🐙 Congrats to my mentee Dalila Destanovic, and the CNAG and @EveSeuntjens teams. Photo courtesy of David Stohlmann! academic.oup.com/g3journal/arti…

Finally out - Bob Zimmermann et al. paper on the conservation of the chromosome-scale macrosynteny, loss of microsynteny and possible lack of TADs in Nematostella. Ulrich Technau Lab Gibson Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very excited for another installment of our favorite meeting! Please spread the word!

#Ciona larvae showcase polymodal sensory perception to navigate life transitions, demonstrating complex decision-making through simplified nervous systems by responding to chemical & mechanical cues. #evolution Congrats to Jørgen Høyer & authors! 🔬 bit.ly/4bOFawT

I'm SO excited to share my first first author paper!!!! In our paper, we review the mechanisms of genomic imprinting in plants vs mammals. We also provide 4 criteria that could be used to assess the role of parental conflict in shaping the divergence of the two taxa. 🌺🐀

Delighted to share our lab's first research paper as a preprint on the evolution of bryozoan genomes, led by @Tom_Lewin & Isabel Jiah-Yih Liao 🐸. Our study reveals massive chromosome rearrangements across the entire Bryozoa phylum! #evodevo doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

The Near Lab website is now live...TY Webmaster Chase Brownstein nearlab.org

She's an award winning mentor for a reason, folks. Don't miss this opportunity and APPLY to her lab!!!!!

The morphogenetic processes of unicellular holozoans resemble those of animals. But, can they tell us something about the origin of animal #embryology ? We think so and we believe #ichthyosporeans are well positioned to address this! #evodevo #multicellularity

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Amazing! the choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa blurs the lines between clonal and aggregative multicellularity, adapting to extreme salinity with a unique life cycle! A leap forward in understanding animal origins and multicellular evolution. 🌊🔬 Thrilled also by this week's

Hello hello! If you are someone who sent a text request on Research Gate and I declined it, please reach out to me! I have fat fingers and there is no way to identify the requester once you hit decline. Sorry! 🙃

A wonderful article by Carl Zimmer highlighting some of the nice work going on in the sociovirology community

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