Adam Wall, Carcinologist

Carcinologist in the LA area also that eDNA/DNA barcoding dude—all tweets are my personal views

[WeDigBio @WeDigBio]

Checking in during day 3 of #WeDigBio - we’re now up to almost 40,000!! #CommunityScience volunteers are vital for digitization efforts and helping us understand the ecosystems that make up our planet. Keep on rocking into day 4! #scienceeverywhere @iDigBio

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@ZackGold15 Amazing Zack, I love it! I'll take 200 to start please = ) Any plans to print holders that will hold multiple filters simultaneously (e.g. 3 at a time etc)... I'm thinking about biological replicates

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@mccullermi @friel Oh man, The “correct way” to report the weight of wet preserved specimens!🤯

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

This is going to be so much help: Oxford Nanopore @nanopore is stepping up to help out on the DNA sequencing end! I love that MinION puts DNA sequencing into your back pocket anywhere in the world!

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

@AdamWall626 @ZymoResearch @JensenKarp MinION is certainly the tool for the job! We'd love to help, drop us a DM #anythinganyoneanywhere

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@nanopore @ZymoResearch @JensenKarp Thank you so much @nanopore for the support! I have been planning to use MinION to do real time DNA sequencing for rapid biodiversity discovery on our research expeditions to remote field sites. But MinION is also totally perfect for this putative cinnamon shrimp question!🧬🍤🦐?

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

Okay Beth, after I'm done morphologically identifying this specimen 🔬 can I send you a subsample to do your ancient DNA magic with it?

[Beth Shapiro @bonesandbugs]

@AdamWall626 @mccullermi @JensenKarp We could get DNA from that, yup. Probably.

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@eva_hilton @JensenKarp You should leave now! Due to COVID the Museum rules are you would need to quarantine for two weeks before you can come on site = /

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

This is amazing Zymo is going to support my science by supplying the DNA extraction kit for FREE—if this thing proves to be a shrimp that is, I still need to get it under a microscope to test the "this is a shrimp hypothesis" first! 🔬🔬

[Zymo Research @ZymoResearch]

@AdamWall626 @JensenKarp We would be happy to provide the DNA extraction kit and technical support for this if needed! 🍤🙂

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@Ologies @JensenKarp This is getting cool now @Ologies @ZymoResearch is offering to supply the DNA extraction kit at no cost!

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@ZymoResearch @JensenKarp Amazing @ZymoResearch I really appreciate the offer, underfunded researchers always need help covering the cost of sequencing our little (possibly cinnamon sugar) shrimp friends! @nanopore I would love to use my MinION to sequence any DNA I can extract, want to help?

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

Museum collections & this ectoproctologist for the win! @mccullermi #NotThatKindOfDoctor #DigInverts

[Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi]

@AdamWall626 @JensenKarp I took a pic this morning of a shrimp specimen in our collection but it would be so cool to see if you could get DNA from the cinnamon sugar shrimp tails!
https://t.co/J9II7ydHi7

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@mccullermi @JensenKarp This reminds me of the "fish fraud" paper from UCLA—Paul Barber's lab used "DNA barcoding" to identify "mislabeled" sushi fish species in LA! If the DNA is too badly degraded we'll need the ancient DNA (aDNA) people's help, @bonesandbugs's lab is an amazingly aDNA research group

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

@m_downey @JensenKarp @m_downey @JensenKarp I know right, when has someone ever said on Twitter "Quick, find me a carcinologist!"

[WeDigBio @WeDigBio]

Another great day of #WeDigBio @NHMLA! https://t.co/4RsDp8jetx

[WeDigBio @WeDigBio]

Today is the anniversary of when this crab specimen was collected. Good spot Madison! @NHMLA #WeDigBio

[WeDigBio @WeDigBio]

.@NHMLA volunteers were awarded if they found this mutant claw in @nfromn, a 1:932 chance. And Ashley did! #WeDigBio

[Adam Wall, Carcinologist @AdamWall626]

Pre conference life at the Shakespeare Arms #dnabarcodes2015