Maria Isabel Castaño

Bióloga Colombiana🇨🇴PhD candidate at @TropBioLab | @UofR 🦖 Birds, behavior & evolution. @AAUW Fellow | Birding tours guide at: @atbirding

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

Preparing for the next field season! Excited to finish sampling the multiple Flame-rumped/Lemon-rumped Tanagers hybrid zones and test our 3D printed models 🤩🇨🇴 (those rump feathers though 😮‍💨) @cdanielcadena @TropBioLab

[daniel cadena @cdanielcadena]

Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time | our latest, led by the amazing maria isabel castaño #cienciacriolla https://t.co/UwEk7nGdyL

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

Go check our paper if you want to know more about these enigmatic genomes! https://t.co/8o2eTXx1UF

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

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Back on X to share that our paper with @AvispaTica at @TropBioLab was published @ScientificData! I wanted to learn bioinformatics during my first year PhD rotation, and we ended up doing the first long read de novo genome assembly of a whole order of insects! #Strepsiptera

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

In this paper we report the first long read de novo genome assembly and annotation for a male Xenos peckii and one of the smallest insect genomes reported up to date! We also assembled the mitogenome and identified two contigs with X-linked coverage patterns.

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@NicolasGalvisR 🤨 qué!!!!

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@rmp033 @VT_Biology 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@jacanamama Thank you Sara 😁

[Sara Lipshutz @jacanamama]

Exciting hybrid zone research on flame-rumped tanagers by @MariaCastanoGal including RNAseq of red, orange, and yellow feathers and carotenoid-related genes. #AOS_SCO23. Fascinating system, rockstar scientist!

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@AvispaTica @UofR 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 congratulations!

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@DoctorScience7 Amazing! 🤩so cool to see this out! 🎉 congrats!

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@VanessaLuzuria5 Can I please get the link? 🥳

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

Birds handled with all the proper permits by the Colombian government.

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

We made it! Three months of fieldwork, massive landslides, amazing Colombian landscapes and more than 130 Flame-rumped Tanagers 🔥 ready for some 🧬🤓

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@evornithology 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@evornithology @TropBioLab @cdanielcadena Such an amazing place omg!!! I’m still mind blown 🤓😵‍💫

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

Today we caught all these birds in the same locality. What lies behind the phenotype of the Flame and Lemon rumps? Stay tuned to know more 🤯 @TropBioLab @cdanielcadena

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

Today we banded the 50th Ramphocelus of this field season! Amazing Tanagers and amazing landscapes of my beautiful Colombia❤️ 🇨🇴

[Maria Isabel Castaño @MariaCastanoGal]

@evornithology Once I know what up with the Flame-rumped/Lemon-rumped… genetic basis of Carotenoid coloration!