Diving into Molecular Defenses: How elephant seals protect themselves from oxygen poisoning during deep dives 🤿 Brilliant first preLight from Sarah Young-Veenstra Saint Mary’s University covering work from Jose Vazquez-Medina and team UC Berkeley IB. #preprint Take a look! ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/hyp…

How do elephant seals protect themselves from oxygen poisoning during deep dives? New study dives deep into the seals’ molecular defences against hypoxic injury. Preprint evaluated by Sarah Young-Veenstra for preLights. sciety.org/articles/activ…

So pleased to see this undergrad-led paper out in Comp. Biochem. Physiol., just in time for the new year! 🐟 We show that cortisol is important for aerobic metabolism as fish move between aquatic and terrestrial environments. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So excited to share my first publication in Comp. Biochem. Physiol.! From my undergraduate thesis at University of Guelph , we showed that cortisol enhances aerobic metabolism and locomotor performance on land during an amphibious fish's transition to air! Check it out here! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Q2 #preNodePlaners quiz What don't elephant seal cells use to adapt to hypoxia? 🤿 Induction of anti-inflammatory response 🤿 Stabilisation of HIF-1α protein 🤿 Cell cycle arrest 🤿 Upregulation of GSH metabolism genes (preLight Sarah Young-Veenstra) ➡prelights.biologists.com/news/end-of-ye…

How do bats handle the cold? They sleep through it!💤 Check out my new preLight discussing a new study out of UATx that shows how bats living in warm climates can save more energy than bats from colder areas🦇 preLights prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tor…

Check out the great preLights post Sarah Young-Veenstra shared last week! She covers a preprint showing how torpor (a ‘mini hibernation’) in bats is affected by body mass & climate. Take-home message: smarter bats take better naps! 🦇💤 #preLight 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tor… #zoology

We love this new preLights post by #OutsideJEB writer Sarah Young-Veenstra telling us how #bats from warm climes save more energy than cold climate bats by entering a state of 'mini #hibernation' and how the phenomenon may be linked to #brain size

Very excited to see our paper featured in a great Outside JEB article called "Mangrove killifish are stressed for success" by Angelina Dichiera !🐠 Find it in the latest issue of Journal of Experimental Biology! The Company of Biologists journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

. Angelina Dichiera reports on Sarah Young-Veenstra & co's recent Comp. Biochem. Physiol. paper showing that a temporary spike in cortisol helps mangrove #killifish adjust to life on land. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… #Science #Biology #comparativephysiology

I’m a little late to sharing, but very excited to announce my first Outside JEB article, recently published in the latest issue of Journal of Experimental Biology Check out how chinstrap penguins manage to care for their babies, forage for food, and guard against predators - all without sleeping⁉️

Check out Sarah Young-Veenstra’s Outside JEB article about chinstrap penguins and how they microsleeps to keep all eventualities covered!

These killifish protect their babies from predators by laying their eggs on land! Check out the highlights in Journal of Experimental Biology Outside JEB based on the study from The University of Texas at Arlington 🐠 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

. Sarah Young-Veenstra covered Jorge Ayala-Berdon & Kevin Medina-Bello’s preprint on mini-hibernation in preLights. Now see what she has to say after the full paper has been published in JEB prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tor… journals.biologists.com/jeb/227/18/jeb…

Geometry determines how deep whales dive? 🐋 In the latest #preLight, Sarah Young-Veenstra covers a study investigating how airway metrics can protect whales from crushing hydrostatic pressure. #preprint from @Wasatchquatch & team UBC Zoology Check it out! ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/geo…

No oxygen? No problem! Check out my new Outside JEB in Journal of Experimental Biology exploring a recent paper by the Christian Damsgaard group showing birds' incredible vision in spite of high altitude hypoxia!🐦 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Neonatal sharks have a secret superpower: injury healing!🦈💥 See my latest Outside Journal of Experimental Biology on Professor Jodie Rummer's new study out of James Cook Uni to learn how temperature boosts wound healing and how this remarkable ability could improve fishing practices!🪝🐠 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

A bit late to sharing, but this amazing study from the Di Santo Lab Scripps Institution of Oceanography is too good not to share🐟✨ Read about the amazing 6th sense that help blind fish navigate underwater caves in my Outside Journal of Experimental Biology🌌🔦 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…