Emily Lau

interests: #bioluminescence, convergent evolution, & puns

[Emily Lau @chipotlau]

New preprint with @UCSB_OakleyLab @niko_hensley @JeroDelr et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Functional characterization of luciferase in a brittle star indicates parallel evolution influenced by genomic availability of ... https://t.co/eMFRRGiwDW #biorxiv_evobio

[Manabu Bessho-Uehara @Parapriacanthus]

満員御礼で講演終了。中学生たちが質問してくれたので、大成功！発光生物の面白さが伝わったら嬉しいです。

カウンターイルミネーションを体感できる展示もあと1ヶ月間見られますよー

[Kanchi Nanjo @KanchiNanjo]

発光生物を探すために３年ぶりに八丈島に来ています！キノコたちが音もなくぽーっと光っている様子が幻想的でうっとりしてしまいます。

[stevehaddock.bsky @beroe]

Our photo+science book The Radiant Sea comes out this week!
It is not quite like your typical coffee-table ocean book, and shows in the organisms in a different "light" #bioluminescent. 🌊🦑https://t.co/nkLMCRoUHU

[Orit Peleg @oritpeleg]

New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝

Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez

https://t.co/whQy6k0SNu

[Orit Peleg @oritpeleg]

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝

https://t.co/UcuG35gUu5

[Emily Lau @chipotlau]

@Parapriacanthus Congratulations! Thanks for sharing — Looking forward to reading!

[Kanchi Nanjo @KanchiNanjo]

［論文出版📢］
青森県の浅虫よりホタルミミズ Microscolex phosphoreusを発見した論文が公開されました。青森県初記録である同時に日本最北限記録を更新しました。浅虫水族館と浅虫臨海の皆様ご協力ありがとうございました🪱

↓以下のリンクから無料で読めます。
https://t.co/PiwnKxIrbt

[Ziheng Yang's Group @zihengyang]

If you have ever wondered whether the PAML documentation could be more interactive... We have good news for you! The PAML GitHub repository has been updated and a fresh PAML Wiki is now available for you to navigate the PAML documentation! 📄💻 (1/n)
https://t.co/pJXmmwrL8i

[Trends in Ecology & Evolution @Trends_Ecol_Evo]

Online now: Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age https://t.co/dwWbIjfVQK

[stevehaddock.bsky @beroe]

Super fun article by @eabrown18 spotlights our deep-sea research led by Jacob Winnikoff and Itay Budin @ibudin https://t.co/izoA3WaBmV

[Emily Lau @chipotlau]

Comments welcome! I will also be presenting this work at the annual @SICB_ meeting on 1/5/2025 as part of the @sicb_dcpb best student presentation session — if you're attending and are also working on bioluminescence systems or similar questions, I'd love to meet and chat 😊

[Emily Lau @chipotlau]

New preprint with @UCSB_OakleyLab @niko_hensley @JeroDelr et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Functional characterization of luciferase in a brittle star indicates parallel evolution influenced by genomic availability of ... https://t.co/eMFRRGiwDW #biorxiv_evobio

[Emily Lau @chipotlau]

We also show that the distribution of this gene family is patchy in metazoans and absent in the genomes of many bioluminescent groups. Taken together, we highlight how factors like genomic availability and biochemical function shape evolutionary convergence.

[Sam Bogan @granogan]

New preprint w/ @SciStrader and Gretchen Hofmann!

We show that parental environments alter the fitness consequences and genetic architecture of offspring plasticity and associated gene expression pathways in purple urchins. Check it out!

https://t.co/oyTdR6sEtd

[Sofia Sheikh @sofsheikh]

our second session of the q&a panel series is in a few weeks! this one will focus on the technicalities and tacit rules of applying to phd programs. open to anyone, but focus will be on biology programs.

please share widely with your networks of potentially interested folks ✨

[Dakota McCoy, Ph.D. @WildlifeMcCoy]

Postdoc opportunity for coral reef scientists, $90k salary! @UChicago's Climate Systems Engineering Iniative fellowship apps are due Oct 15, and I'd be delighted to serve as your research mentor in @UChicagoBSD. How does geongineering the ocean affect calcifying organisms?

[Sam Bogan @granogan]

Thrilled to share this preprint from my postdoc w/ @joannalkelley

Studying Zoarcoidei, we detected gradients in antifreeze protein (AFP) copy number across habitat temperature and pressure driven by homologs translocated out of an ancestral AFP array

https://t.co/mdZ0s1IEDa