A big chunk of my PhD work is finally out Cell !! I want to thank Dr. Marcela Bolaños, Dr. Lorenzo Ricci, Mansi, and the Srivastava Lab Srivastava Lab, as this project was not possible without their help. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

⁦⁦Now for HEMICHORDATES!!! Paul Bump ⁦Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University⁩ now tells us about the transition from a tornaria larvae to a juvenile enteropneust worm, as seen from single cell sequencing data!! These were followed with beautiful HCR to label specific cell types!

Thanks News from Science for covering my presentation SICB! A special shout out to StrebLab and Martín-Durán lab for organizing the special symposia and the other excellent marine larval and genomics enthusiasts. Stay tuned for more soon on this topic!

I've been enjoying this paper since it was a preprint and now it's amazing to see the final product published in Nature using comparative genomics to study the evolution of life history stages in some cool marine invertebrates! Congrats to Martín-Durán lab and the entire team! 🥳

A classic zoological puzzle in one of my favorite groups of animals! With stellar investigation and some of the most beautiful microscopy from @FormeryLaurent. Read on to find out where the head of a sea star is! ⭐️

Woohoo! Nat has always been an excellent mentor and it’s no surprise (but still super cool) to see him recognized for this! 🎉

This is insanely cool! Honestly one of the best videos of metamorphosis I’ve ever seen

Ctenophores or sponges? We identified chromosomal changes that support ctenophores as the sister group of all other animals. In nature w/ stevehaddock.bsky Dan Rokhsar et al. Support from MBARI U.S. National Science Foundation European Research Council (ERC) 🔗nature.com/articles/s4158…

Interested in regeneration, endosymbiosis, and/or cross species coordination? Have a look at our new pre-print on a beautiful acelos worm! Thank you to the entire team for making this possible.

🚨We are recruiting a PostDoc and a PhD to investigate how larvae evolved! Supported by The Leverhulme Trust, join a terrific group of people Queen Mary University of London QM_SBBS to investigate fascinating marine 🪱🪱! PhD ad: alturl.com/i64ue DM/e-mail ([email protected]) for more info!

This is what a team of talented undergrads can do! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Reed College

Congrats to Laurent and the whole team for this super cool story!

Thanks to everyone who chatted with Lauren and I and influenced the final product. Apologies if we weren't able to include your study, the field is moving quickly! If nothing else, hopefully this is a useful primer for new folks or at least an amusing landmark to look back on.

Please check out our recent perspective paper, “Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.” A huge thanks to the 50 scientists who traveled to California to discuss the future of #DevBio and who contributed to this paper! 1/ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

A cool new preprint and also a great write up from Isabella Cisneros about the stem cell populations in Nematostella. Definitely worth checking out!

Have you ever wondered what GFP might be doing out in the wild? You gotta check out this sweet paper from nat clarke and colleagues that combines the power of natural history and molecular biology.

I had the pleasure of getting to try this back when they were first developing it. Here is one of my personal favorites, a cleared hermit crab that was brooding a number of eggs (check out the cute baby crabs!) Props to the rockstar team of nat clarke and @FormeryLaurent

Thanks to the Node for letting Eliza and I share what a normal "day in life" looks like. It was a great opportunity to reflect on how fortunate we are to learn from such an amazing and mysterious organism (and the work that came before us that makes it possible).