Full interview with Professor Rajakumar available tomorrow at 8am on our YouTube channel. Check out Part 2 of Rajendhran Rajakumar’s #TikTok video!! vm.tiktok.com/ZMMmfrQvY/

Me when the semester is over: PhD Voice - Independently Run

Happy to have been included and to represent ants in this The Guardian article on how invertebrates play central role in shaping our world theguardian.com/environment/20…

Transitions in development – an interview with Rajendhran Rajakumar In this interview, Rajendhran Rajakumar talks about his passion for emerging and model systems, most notably ants, and the importance of serendipity in research: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Development's ‘Transitions in development‘ interviews feature new #DevBio PIs discussing the challenges and highlights of being a #newPI. This'll hopefully encourage future PIs and stimulate discussion around the career path of a developmental biologist: thenode.biologists.com/transitions-in…

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MSc and PhD positions on Thyroid hormone signaling and function in sea urchin development and metamorphosis available in Heylandlab: comparativephys.ca/heylandlab/202…

#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽#SOSBudget2024

Mike Support Our Science Increased funding is not retroactive, but students who currently hold awards will automatically receive an increase in 2024/2025

Also in Issue 7: ▪️4 Research Highlights on macrophages, MuSCs, diapause & Aurora A ▪️ 4 People behind the papers interviews ▪️Transitions in development Rajendhran Rajakumar ▪️Spotlight on hPSCs clinical translation ▪️Primordial germ cell migration Review journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/151/7

I am thrilled to announce that on Aug 1 I'll be starting at University of British Columbia #UBC in Vancouver Canada as an #AssistantProfessor #faculty in the Zoology Dept! I'll continue my #evodevo work on arthropod appendages to understand gene network evolution over 500mil yrs

A decade or two ago we could only dream of having genomes for all species of a major branch of the tree of life. Thanks to the Y1000+ Project, the dream is now reality! Kudos to HittingerLab @DOpulente The Lab LaBella Marizeth Groenewald & the whole TEAM science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

PhD IN AMBROSIA BEETLE SYSTEMATICS! A fully-funded degree available at the University of Florida Forest Entomology Lab. This is a part of our 4-year NSF funded project, based on the main UF campus in Gainesville, FL. Please share widely pitchtube.org/phd-degree-in-…

New paper: Mitochondrial transfer mediates endothelial cell engraftment through mitophagy. Lin RZ, Im GB, Luo AC, Zhu Y, Hong X, Neumeyer J, Tang HW, Perrimon N, Melero-Martin JM. Nature. 2024 May 1. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07340-0. PMID: 38693258

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How do enhancers work over distances that sometimes exceed megabases? Excited to share our work led by Grace Bower where we uncover a unique sequence signature globally associated with long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in developing limb buds: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

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Wow!!! 🥳 this will be an amazing lab! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️