Happy to be able to show some love to 🐟 gills, which I've really enjoyed learning about over the past two years.
Excited to share the final publication soon! 🤞
Really appreciated this opportunity from @the_Node to write about the amazing journey I got to be on for 6 years and the people I met on the way.
Every day I feel fortunate to live in and work for a society that chooses to be curious. I hope it continues to do so. ✨
Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears. 🐟🐸🐁🦎
Read this 'Behind the paper' story from @MathiThiru95 about her PhD work with @CrumpLab:
https://t.co/5ac9JoYeLH
#DevBio#EvoDevo
Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @SocDevBio@NIH@NSF
Nice article in Scientific American about our work on outer ear evolution and a complimentary study from the lab of Maksim Plikus on role of unique lipids in mammalian ear cartilage. @MathiThiru95@USCStemCell@KECKSchool_USC
https://t.co/ugFmdQXH5v
Sox10 is required for systemic initiation of bone mineralization
Read this Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske and colleagues @CincyResearch:
https://t.co/3Y9O3WJk0F
Excited to share our new publication, “Bidirectional histone monoaminylation dynamics regulate neural rhythmicity;” a massive collaboration across 5 labs (@Yael_David__@MuirLab@SimoneSidoli and Haitao Li) See 🧵 below for the highlights https://t.co/bY7cU7D7zC
You can view the PDF of our gills to outer ears paper here: https://t.co/HIyAjizvYB
Also the link to the article on Nature is now working again: https://t.co/i05me2TvxC
Welcome to embryo alphabet. Each day I will post an unannotated embryo image. Today E is for elephant. Repost tweet w/an image of a different species embryo & add a quote including name that begins with same letter of the day. @SocDevBio
Excited to share this story from my PhD revealing the surprising legacy of our gill-bearing ancestry in the form of our cartilaginous outer ears, summarized in this series of Tweets.
The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in @Nature, @MathiThiru95 and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. https://t.co/i05me2SXI4
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Thank you to all co-authors! @GillisLab@EvseenkoLab@YaWenChenMSSM@goodfrognosis and everyone not on Twitter/X. It's hard to emphasize how amazing it's been to work with people of such diverse expertise who still had an interest in various obscure aspects of this work.
An @USCStemCell study published in @PNASnews has identified gene regulators that enable fish and lizards to naturally regenerate their hearing. The findings could guide future efforts to regenerate hearing for patients. @CrumpLab@KeckSchool_USC https://t.co/O3iBr673X0
🎉 We're excited to share our new research in @Nature! We reveal that crocodile head scales self-organize through compressive folding of the skin - a mechanical twist on their development & evolution!
Please read & share 🐊🔬 @genevunige@UNIGEnews
https://t.co/TeChj6Z15F
Do you love evo-devo and want to do a PhD on millipede trachea homology in beautiful Vancouver 🇨🇦?
Come join my lab! https://t.co/l1j7hYYyEr
Please re-tweet :)
Our paper ‘Whole-embryo Spatial Transcriptomics at Subcellular Resolution from Gastrulation to Organogenesis’ is now on biorxiv! We introduce weMERFISH, a platform for profiling gene expression in entire embryos at subcellular resolution. Here is🧵https://t.co/U6eGtbvF0g (1/12)
Excited to start my postdoc in @kamberovlab at UPenn studying the development and evolution of eccrine sweat glands and human thermoregulation. Thanks to all my new lab mates for the warm welcome. 😃