Morphological evolution lab @evomorpholab
Morphological evolution lab based at @CamZoology working on the evolution of pigmentation patterns and neural crest cells in cichlid fishes (PI: @emiliapsantos) sites.google.com/view/cichlid-e… Cambridge, UK Joined June 2020-
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We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future. Plenty of seal sightings, good food, and the weather almost held up!! #GreatBritishSummer! @C__gw @marconi_aleks @JoelElkin416 @AaronHicke62497 @patrsduarte
New pre-print alert 🚨 morphological variation between cichlid species manifests during early embryonic development 🐠🥚 or "show me a #cichlid embryo and I will tell you who they are". see 🧵below: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @CamZoology @evomorpholab
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📢 Extension for abstract submissions! We are extending the deadline to Friday 22nd July - please share! We look forward to receiving your abstracts in the next week #cichlidsci22 cichlidscience2022.com
Reminder that abstract submissions are open until the end of this week - extended deadline Friday 22nd July #cichlidsci22 cichlidscience2022.com Join us for a great 🐟 meeting!
This week's #FluorescenceFriday user is @marconi_aleks! Aleksandra studies development of the neural crest in cichlid fish in the @evomorpholab. #HCRimaging allows her to map multiple gene expression simultaneously with striking signal-to-background. See her HCR cichlid GIF here:
Seriously @fc_ul ? H-index >10 for a first stage researcher? I know MANY great scientists that don’t fulfil this criterion. Trying to reduce multidimensional scientific, personal, mentoring, and other skills into a single dimension? How unscientific…
Join us online on 8 March to celebrate #IWD2022. Hear about the research of four amazing #female scientists, like @EGMitchell, who works on understanding how ecology impacts evolution through deep-time 🕰️ Sign-up is free: ow.ly/Usit50I0TXA #WomenInSTEM #BreakTheBias
Fresh off the confocal for a good end to #FluorescenceFriday in @evomorpholab #cichlids #HCR
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be starting the Torres-Dowdall lab (torres-dowdall.com) in August 2022. It's a great honor to join the Dept of Biological Sciences at @NotreDame. @NDBios is a highly multidisciplinary dept, a dream place to start an integrative research lab
Ph.D. scholarships here at Cambridge for UK-domiciled students with Black or Black-Mixed ethnicity, applying for a PhD degree in a science-based subject. postgradschl.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/funding/alexan…
Very excited that we at @CamZoology get to host @drtcp and hope you can join us!
Interested in the genomic and developmental bases of pigmentation diversity in Malawi cichlid fishes? See this PhD project available in my lab @CamZoology nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/projects/bc338 In collaboration with @Dlimnothrissa, @tpLinderoth and @richard_durbin Pls RT & get in touch 🐠
Latest paper now out with some approaches for quantifying pattern variation morphospace in Danio fishes and analysis of mutant phenotypes across species. Great work from @BraeDanio, @_Victor_Lewis and Larissa Patterson at RIC. journals.biologists.com/bio/article/10…
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Good morning everyone! Don't forget to register for Cichlid Science 2021 taking place online on 1st and 2nd September. #cichlids #cichlidscience #cichlidscience2021 @Cichlid2021 cichlidscience2021.com
You can now register for Cichlid Science 2021. cichlidscience2021.com Abstract submission deadline on the 4th of August. We have two fantastic invited speakers: @craig_albertson and @MaruskaLab #cichlids #cichlidscience #cichlidscience2021 @Cichlid2021 Please RT.
We're excited to announce that registration is now open! cichlidscience2021.com Abstract submission deadline on the 4th of August. Please share widely. #cichlids #cichlidscience #cichlidscience2021
When you look at fish and find diamonds instead 💎@evomorpholab

M. Emília Santos @emiliapsantos
1K Followers 941 Following @NERCscience Fellow and Assistant Professor at @CamZoology studying pigmentation and neural crest evolution in cichlids. PI @evomorpholab 🐠
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Iker Irisarri @IkerIrisarri
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Lily Fogg @fogg_lily
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DanniT @0929_DT
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Rita Alonaizan ريت... @AlonaizanRita
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Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7
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MJ 🌻 @emma37jane
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LTER-Italy @lteritaly
820 Followers 2K Following LTER-Italy includes 79 sites, on which ecological research is conducted on a decadal scale. It is part of the European and International networks since 2006.
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Moritz Lürig @mluerig
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jbnocean @jbnocean
339 Followers 3K Following Interested in oceanography, marine biology, conservationism, sustainable aquariums. Responsible angler and beginner SCUBA diver.
Iris Hardege @IHardege
242 Followers 344 Following Fundamentals of neural communication using the tiny nematode worm 🪱🧠 Group Leader & URF @CamZoology @royalsociety @Kings_College @Cambridge_Uni
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M. Emília Santos @emiliapsantos
1K Followers 941 Following @NERCscience Fellow and Assistant Professor at @CamZoology studying pigmentation and neural crest evolution in cichlids. PI @evomorpholab 🐠
Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock
12K Followers 2K Following Award-winning home tank for all things zebrafish! Sign up for our Slack tankspace at https://t.co/ngouwKednj 🐟🎸
Craig Albertson @craig_albertson
331 Followers 204 Following Husband, father, educator, mentor, evo-devo practitioner, professor of biology UMass Amherst, EIC Evolution & Development.
James Briscoe @briscoejames
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preLights @preLights
7K Followers 959 Following A preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists
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425 Followers 308 Following Integrative Evolutionary Biology Lab @helsinkiuni 🇫🇮. We study the evolutionary diversification of coloration in fishes 🐠. Group Leader: @C_Kratochwil
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9K Followers 885 Following Born and bred in Madrid, brewed in Chicago and Cambridge. Curious about how cells build embryos #NotIntheGenes #InNumbersWeTrust
the Node @the_Node
19K Followers 4K Following the Node is a community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists, covering news, meetings, and research. Hosted by @Dev_journal. #devbio
Roberto Mayor Lab @mayor_lab
3K Followers 400 Following The aim of our research group is to elucidate the mechanism that underlies the development of the Neural Crest, from induction to migration and differentiation.
Tobias Spanke @evo_tobi
29 Followers 77 Following PhD candidate @Leibniz_LIB | Evolution, antagonistic selection, functional morphology, 3D-imaging, FEA
Walter Salzburger Lab @WSalzburger
1K Followers 89 Following
Jan Häge @JanHaege
109 Followers 277 Following just a fish guy.. loving diving, science, evolution, aquaponics and generally being in the water 😁 Ph.D. candidate, IntEvoBio group, University of Helsinki
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515 Followers 147 Following The #RosenthalLab @TAMU & @CICHAZ1. Everything mate choice, evolution, behavior, hybridization, & swordtail fish(es). Tweets by lab members. PC: @gastonijr
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505 Followers 62 Following Interested in evolutionary physiology and biomechanics? Come join us!
Sayoni Chatterjee @sayoniyono
365 Followers 1K Following Origins and evolution of life junkie| PhD student at Nakamura Lab @RutgersU| Special interest in the quantum world, and worlds at other ends of the universe🐋🔭
James Hammond @JamesHammond926
292 Followers 685 Following PhD student studying evolvability of somitogenesis @OxfordEnvRes @OxfordBiology @MertonCollege. Likes evo-devo, theoretical/systems bio, and moths
Maria Gorjão @mzgorjao
74 Followers 621 Following 🌿Interested in poetry and science for the same reason 🌿Biology student at FCUL
Cichlid Papers = @cic... @cichlid_papers
452 Followers 0 Following Twitterbot of cichlid PubMed papers curated by @domino_joyce. Now on Mastodon as @[email protected] when this stops working on Feb 9th.
Reade Roberts @reade_roberts
172 Followers 299 Following Evolutionary geneticist: dietary adaptation, host-microbiota interactions, sex determination, behavior, cichlids
Kara Powder @KaraEPowder
400 Followers 390 Following evolutionary and developmental genomics asst. prof @clemson_biolsci she/they
The Prince Lab @PrinceLab_UofC
513 Followers 259 Following Prince Lab @UChicago. Vertebrate #development with a focus on zebrafish: patterning and migration of neurons, neural crest and placodes + education and outreach
Alison Wright @alielw
1K Followers 865 Following Evolutionary geneticist with a particular interest in sexual dimorphism and sex chromosome evolution @EEB_Sheffield @ScienceShef
Nicola Nadeau @NicolaNadeau
1K Followers 746 Following Evolutionary biologist @EEB_sheffield. Associate editor @JEvBio. (Views my own)
Mathew Lowe 💙 @MigratoryMatt
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Museum of Zoology, Ca... @ZoologyMuseum
12K Followers 578 Following The University Museum of Zoology is one of the UK's largest and most important natural history collections. Cambridgeshire's current "Museum of the Year".
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360 Followers 363 Following Head of Integrative Physiology of Gnotobionts research team in Laboratory of Gnotobiology. Host-microbiom interactions in juvenile growth and allergic diseases.
PDN Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge
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Developmental Cell @Dev_Cell
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620 Followers 63 Following Official account of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD). Follow us for all things #devbio and beyond. 🤓❤️🔬
Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer
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The Company of Biolog... @Co_Biologists
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Jordi Solana @solana_jordi
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Julia Schwarzer @jlschwarzer
299 Followers 467 Following Head of RICEFISH LAB @Leibniz_LIB. Interested in evolution, speciation, hybridization. views are my own. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Ecology and Evolution @Ecol_Evol
7K Followers 212 Following OA journal providing an author friendly outlet for any aspect of ecology or evolution. Partnering with societies, promoting open everything including minds.
David Marques @David_A_Marques
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184 Followers 242 Following Evolutionary biologist @RBINSmuseum @UAntwerpen, studies #African #vertebrates. Links with #biodiversity #conservation #sustainable #development and @ALF_org
Robert Kelsh @bssrnk
590 Followers 259 Following Developmental geneticist, focusing on neural crest using zebrafish
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298 Followers 358 Following Science lab @GeorgiaTech studying evolution, development & behavior. Fans of African cichlids 🐠, soccer, bands named after animals & a happier planet.