How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new preprint addressing these questions in collaboration with RokasLab, HittingerLab, and Matt Pennell (link at the end)

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to co-organize this American Physical Society MM session with Mazi Jalaal & invited speakers Shengqiang Cai + Todd Oakley ⚡️ … to explore how light shapes life and how life creates & uses light to sustain itself! If this sounds like your research, submit your abstract & join us!

New preprint with Todd Oakley Niko Hensley, PhD Jérôme Delroisse et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!

Whoo! Check out my first first-author paper. Super excited to have this out. Thanks to all the co-authors that made this possible! Stay tuned for more ‘development’ of secretory innovations at SICB2025. You can find the official paper published here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…