Excited to share our latest story on how fish-hunting cone snail uses a combination of weaponized insulin and somatostatin-like toxins to disrupt glucose level in its fish prey 🐚⚡️🐠🍬
Check out our paper and animation to learn more:
https://t.co/ftJeIJK5dU @NatureComms 🧵1/5
Thank you to everyone that participated and helped to organize #GRSVenom24! It’s a whirlwind to see months of work come together, and such a joy to see all the amazing work our peers are doing!
Could not have been done without my co-chair @SamNScience@grcvenom! 💙🕷️🪼
UP MSI is proud to announce Dr. Baldomero Olivera as the next speaker for the MSI@50 Lecture Series, who will shed light on the regional significance of pre-colonial Philippines before the arrival of Magellan in 1521. Read more: https://t.co/HBEoiPqZ62
We are hiring! Come join the greatest #Glycotime labs @cphglyco@UCPH_health Schjoldager lab and Miller lab have in total 4 post doc positions available. More specifics here https://t.co/eSMEwRQZem
Our newest #Filipina of the ‘Science-Corps Filipinas in STEM’ series is #marine#biologist Hyacinth Suarez, faculty at the College of Arts & Sciences, Holy Name University (HNU) in Tagbilaran and manager of the HNU-Center for Marine Science Studies 🪸
My @Science_Corps fellowship at the Central Visayan Institute Foundation in Bohol 🇵🇭 has been a life changing experience. It brings me great joy to share that together we are launching the Science-Corps #Filipinas in #STEM series on May 30!
⚠️And it’s #VenomWednesday again!⚠️
Join us today at 14:00 (Berlin time) via Zoom:
https://t.co/27ZM27mHSg
My guests today are
🐍 @magy_lakusic: Diet shapes the venom of the Nose-horned viper?
🐌 @irisbeara: Somatostatin analog design by cone snails
Researchers like @irisbeara at @UCPH_Research look to an unusual source for new ways to kill pain: venomous snails, spiders, and scorpions.
Image Credit: Bea Ramiro
Read more from @aparnanathan here:
https://t.co/YY2BR4XhRY
ICYMI - watch the #conesnail research journey of 2022 @GoldGooseAward winners: Toto, Luly, Michael and Craig. What a privilege to be mentored by these legends and the team of researchers in the labs @UofUBiology and @up_msi!
https://t.co/pcwQJnQNHG
That’s a wrap! Learned so much during @EUVENAction Introductory Venomics Training School these past few days.
Grateful to all the speakers for sharing resources and their knowledge and expertise. Special thanks to @evolriffs and #EUVEN team for organizing it! 👏👏👏
Great start @DRA_UCPH Summer School with talks on diversity. Interesting scientific talks and poster presentations. Looking forward to tomorrow's sessions!
The school, CVIF, is located in the island province of Bohol. 🏝️
Ask me ✉️ if you want to know more about Bohol , #CVIF, or their Dynamic Learning Program @CVIFDLP!
There’s an opportunity to be in the Philippines 🇵🇭 and impact young students by teaching research or the sciences.
Read more about this unique research fellowship here: https://t.co/LmwqfY5jSs
Well, they did it... @ScienceNight1 podcast, they talked about having some #ConeSnail merch in an earlier episode and here it is! Check it out!
@paulaflorezsalc maybe we should feature your #ConeSnail#art and stickers! 😉
I had a great conversation with @James_Reed3 on the @ScienceNight1 podcast about cone snails, our research, and some field stories. Here’s the episode!
You'll have to wait for Friday (5/27) to see the new merch we've designed to go with the next episode, but here is a censored version of the design to start building that sweet sweet hype! #scicomm#sciart#podcast#conesnail
Looking more into our recently discovered somatostatin-like cone snail peptides (consomatins), it was surprising to see so many consomatin sequences from worm-hunting cone snails. 😯
It was indicating a similar signaling system in worms! 🪱
(3/5) This neuropeptide is not only found in cone snails, but also in many other invertebrates including other mollusks and annelids but not others such as arthropods.