Marco La Fortezza

Evolutionary developmental biologist. Postdoc at ETH Zurich • he/him

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

This year #E3B seminar series at @ETH_en/@UZH_ch ended with an amazing talk from @multicellgenome on animals' origin. It was a blast haiving Iñaki here, sharing scientific ideas and career experiences. Looking forward to get to know the #magnificent8!

[Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome]

Our team is on a mission to find the 'Magnificent 8'-eight elusive lineages closely related to animals but yet to be discovered.

eDNA data suggests this glacial Spanish lake may harbor some of those "known unknown" relatives. So, here we are!

Could this serene spot hold the key to understanding the origin of animals? Stay tuned! 🌊🔬

🎥: Pablo Martin Lerma
🎶: @helloaudiio

@ERC_Research @IBE_Barcelona @CSICCat #Magnificent8 #KnownUnknowns #Biodiversity

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@TanentzapfLab I would add…that it is an adaptation.

[Sonja Lehtinen @sonjaklehtinen]

We're recruiting! Multiple postdoc and PhD positions at the University of Lausanne. Official adverts will be out soon, but you can have a sneak peek. Informal enquires are encouraged - if you like our papers, we want to hear from you! https://t.co/ftpM9Mt4A7

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

Hi Friends,
I'm excited to announce that I set up a crowdfunding campaign for my sugar selection system for antibiotic-free cloning! Finally formalizing this project; it's been a dream for too long now. Every penny counts; please RT!
💚🍬🦠

https://t.co/MOKKm2cTp7

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

I had quite some fun drawing this cover for @GenomeBiolEvol linked to the recent paper from @SWielgoss and colleagues on M. xanthus mutation rate and effective population size. Read more about it here https://t.co/PoefCDQDXn

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@wc_ratcliff Many, many congrats! Well deserved!

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

It is ONLINE!🥳 https://t.co/ODUYPOYgdI is for those interested in evolution. It showcases past, present, and future evolution experiments run with #Myxobacteria. Social selection, microbial development, predation, evolutionary dynamics, and much more. Enjoy and share!

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

This is great stuff! Is embryonal-like multicellular development ancestral to animals? Is (crazy) convergent evolution due to the inherent properties of cellular multicellularity? It's fascinating, and it raises so many questions!

https://t.co/UAYCxCppfd

[Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ @dudin_o]

#PreprintAlert🚨Please share.

Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta @ChandniBhickta @NChiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn.

**𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 #𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝘆𝗼**

LINK ➡️https://t.co/zdiu7zlfPy

Buckle up for a LONG 🧵(sorry)

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@wc_ratcliff Such a cool idea! I'm really looking forward to reading it in...depth. Science needs more Burnetti-like ideas!

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

When it comes to publishing, a young scientist can listen to science twitter that talks about the DORA declaration, preprints, & post publication peer review. Or they can listen to ERC consolidator grant reviewers who mostly rewarded people w/ multiple Nature & Cell family pubs.

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@drmichaellevin I would argue 'both', as humans do, don't they?

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@wc_ratcliff @KAMacGillivray I wish I were a GT student to be able to attend! It sounds like an incredible course.

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@nonresidentdesi @PNASNews I am so happy for you guys to see this out! It's such an exciting story.

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@iamsamayp @JyoKalathera So nice to see this work as preprint! Congratulation to all!

[KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters @KLIAustria]

📕 New book out!

Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in #Evolutionary Biology? 🌱

Read the latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press open access: https://t.co/CzxbT7GPoW

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@laszlognagy One of the best things I ever witnessed was a talk where ppl did scRNAseq, and then, because of too noisy data, they averaged signals across individual samples...

[Sara Mitri @saramitri]

Our latest review paper by @picot, @shota483_IL and @oliMeacock is out! We discuss how to couple experiments and models when measuring inter-species interactions in microbes (1/3) https://t.co/W8uqfKMsld

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@CCWendling The new 'frontiers' of publishing...wow

[Marco La Fortezza @lafortma]

@tristamoeba I find this phenomenon quite interesting, especially given similar observations I made with myxobacteria belonging to the genus Chondromyces