Echinobase

@Echinobase is the twitter account for the echinoderm web information system

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Bill Klein was a great colleague and a strong supporter of sea urchin research. RIP
https://t.co/4PvrdC7yCP

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

William (Bill) Klein passed away last week. He was the Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dept @MDAndersonNews . He pioneered studies in gene regulation using sea urchins, & retinal/muscle development in mice. @___SDB___ @the_Node
https://t.co/eUSz3iTTJ7

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Echinobase's Saoirse Foley tells us about efforts to provide orthologies for echinoderm genes @saoirseguita
#BioGenomics20

[Echinobase @echinobase]

@MeganMartikPhD @UCBerkeley @berkeleyMCB Congratulations Megan. A wonderful opportunity and richly deserved.

[Ray L. Allen, PhD (@rayallen.bsky.social) @Ray_L_Allen]

Study developmental biology of a Marine Invertebrate?! Submit an abstract and travel award application for this conference in Spring 2020 at MBL in Woods Hole, MA! #DevBio #Invertebrate #DBMIXXVI

[Echinobase @echinobase]

After a brief downtime, Echinobase is up and running again!

[Echinobase @echinobase]

"...while coralline cover is greater in urchin-dominated sites (or “barrens”) subject to intense grazing than in kelp-dominated sites with low urchin densities, coralline communities in urchin barrens are significantly less diverse..."

https://t.co/uC7mVsEChp

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Fun fact 1. "Echinoderm" is derived from the Ancient Greek for "hedgehog (prickly)-skin".

Fun fact 2. Echinobase is hiring! We need a bioinformatician (https://t.co/jdFOz7BzIl) & a biocurator (https://t.co/utS4XAJkiU). Come join the echino-team! (We're anything but prickly!)

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Just like this baby seastar taking its first steps, Echinobase continues to grow! We're seeking a skilled biocurator to make sense of the heaps of new echinoderm literature, genes and genomes.
Please RT #biocuration

More details and application info: https://t.co/oEXU0Lsxwm

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Echinobase is growing! We're seeking a skilled bioinformatician to assemble, annotate and analyze echinoderm genome and transcriptome sequences and help improve our website. Please RT.

More details and application info here: https://t.co/jdFOz7BzIl

[Echinobase @echinobase]

New paper in PNAS from the Ben-Tabou de-Leon lab describing the regulatory similarities in the control and effects of VEGF signaling in vascularization and sea urchin spiculogenesis -- points to an ancestral tubulogenesis program common to both!

https://t.co/CEMQgLXVqp

[SGD Project @[email protected] (bsky too) @yeastgenome]

Do you remember when? 25 yrs ago SGD went online, way before going online was cool-we were one of only 2000 websites back then! 1000s of gene pages, 1000s of users, tens of 1000s of papers, 100s of 1000s of annotations, and millions of hits later, we are still #yeast's best bud!

[Echinobase @echinobase]

@EchinoKate 👋

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Superb!

[Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab]

Sea urchin development video from Kate Nesbit. https://t.co/gMiWseeVXl

[Echinobase @echinobase]

@Erky321 @echinerd *nom, nom, nom*

[Echinobase @echinobase]

From echinoderm expression patterns to inferred ancestral states -- this paper has it all!

Great work from @Erky321 and @echinerd

Also, 👍👍 for the gif abstract

[Echinobase @echinobase]

This work is the result of a collaboration between the @veronica_hinman lab and Smadar Ben Tabou de Leon (U. Haifa)

[Echinobase @echinobase]

Happy to announce our new quantitative transcriptome viewer for sea star embryogenesis.

app: https://t.co/DAdNYG3s2D

For more information on the data underpinning the app, please check out the preprint:

https://t.co/t6D93V02x0

[Jérôme Delroisse @JeroDelr]

Dear colleagues and friends: Vote for our SEA CUCUMBER genome project!!! :-): https://t.co/Qpmp2rxMZK @PacBio #SMRTGrant #GoForScabra @umons @UMONSnews @MauriceElphick @ElphickLab @echinobase @QMUL #scicomm #MarineScience

[Veronica Seastar @veronica_hinman]

Please consider providing your response to NICHD strategic plan, (especially if you value research in basic biology 😉)

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

OK, you have ~4 weeks to prepare your application to the summer @MBLScience Embryology Course. You will need to arrange for at least 2 letters of recommendation and transcripts. @NICHD_NIH @HHMINEWS @BWFUND @___SDB___ @MarchofDimes @the_Node