Valentina Peña

NYC | Microbiome Diversity | Nutrition | Postbac @ScienceStowers 🌸🦇 | PhD Student @UCIEEB 🐟🧬🦠

[Valentina Peña @Ichthy_nyc]

Hello There! My name is Valentina and I’m #teamfish! My interests span genetics, physiology, and sustainability in aquaculture.

This fall I will be entering my senior year at Binghamton University, still I’m super excited for all the opportunities that’ll follow. #keepswimming

[Sofi @Sofidicecosas]

Tener una amiga haciendo la tesis es como ver un documental de un animal sufriendo. No podés hacer nada para ayudarla, solo queda apoyar desde lejos y desear que pueda salir viva de esta.

[Fish in the News @FishInTheNews]

How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again - Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.
🔗 https://t.co/B3SURF4pno

[Fish in the News @FishInTheNews]

Just published - Researchers have discovered that five large chromosomal inversions contributed to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity, akin to finding Mother Nature's cookbook for a "Quick Colourful Fish Salad!"
🔒 https://t.co/6MVhrHQmM8
Sci-comm post - https://t.co/HYFj9eJCHj

[Mr Brute @BuddyNoLove]

If I bite into a donut and there’s cheesecake inside I might start crying tears of joy, and I’m not playing.

[Valentina Peña @Ichthy_nyc]

@SigmaAldrich #SigmaAldrichChocolate I have been using the potato starch as a substrate for amylase enzyme activities every week in 2025! ❤️

[Sarah Berry @saraheeberry]

Our new research out today in @NatureMicrobiol led by @nsegata expanding our knowledge on diet-microbiome-health connections in omnivores, vegetarians & vegans.
👇🏻
https://t.co/tA4zfEO1mN

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: https://t.co/nV1ZXoFpSh

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.

[Katherine Xue @ksxue]

Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. https://t.co/rTuQTul2zj 1/2

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

this super power is called R 😅

[Bat Conservation International @BatConIntl]

We should all be so lucky

[Nathaniel St. Clair @NatStClair]

For the first time in 114 years, biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have observed a fall-run Chinook salmon returning to spawn in the Klamath Basin in Oregon, after dam removal.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I’m a savvy, modern researcher. I have dozens of windows and hundreds of tabs open at all times, each containing articles I’ll never read. I yearn for Chrome to crash and deliver me from a nightmare of my own creation.

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

Thrilled to announce Reviewer 2 thinks our "Figures are fine." I'd like to thank my parents ...

[Nathan Muchhala @Muchhala_Lab]

Our article on why bat flowers have long stems is out! See video below:

[Nicholas Bellono @NBellono]

Where do new organs come from? In paired studies, we explore walking fish with "legs" to learn about the evolution of new traits. @MBLScience, @CellPressNews, @CurrentBiology
-https://t.co/2z2q31Vaz5
-https://t.co/CxfhKYtPxB

[Genelle Lunken @GenelleLunken]

Excited to share our new review published in Gut Microbes (@tandfonline)!
It highlights how diet influences gut fungi and their potential role in IBD - https://t.co/GOY9fRkrDk
#gutfungi #diet #IBD

[meghan @deloisivete]

I did not realize how much of my adult life would be spent thinking about protein

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

….we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible.