Le Qin Choo

Postdoc @sheffielduni studying chromosomal inversions in Littorina snails🌊🐌
Obsessive animal petter.🐱
Always hungry.🍕

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

Heading off to #SMBE2023! I'll be sharing about snail evolution in different habitats (rocky shore vs open ocean) on Monday (SP_24):
361: chromosomal inversions in #Littorina snails🐌
269: drivers of divergence in subtropical #pteropods 🐚with @katjaplankton
See you there!

[Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum @lkcnhm]

Joining us for a research visit at the Museum are Dr Nicholas Yap, Prof Marymegan Daly, and Dr Choo Le Qin, from St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, @OhioState and @sheffielduni respectively. Prof Daly will stay till 26 May, while Dr Yap and Dr Choo will stay till 1 June

[Sean Stankowski @speci8_mate]

Ready to share this preprint about the basis of a shift from egg-laying to live-birth in Littorina. We find evidence for live-bearer specific sweeps at many loci, overlapping with genes that are differential expressed btwn reproductive systems. pls share!
https://t.co/boKXGoLGZY

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

@DanielFalush Thanks Daniel!

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

Proud to share that another chapter of my #PhD on the genomic variability in shelled #pteropods 🐚 is published in @molecology: https://t.co/uMhSILBGA6 with @katjaplankton @GiadaSpagliardi @millanek1 @EricaGoetze #MarvinChoquet #GaliceHoarau!
@Naturalis_Sci @IBED_UvA 🧵(1/6)

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

The #oceans are more diverse than we think! The #genomic and #morphological evidence shows that these #pteropod lineages have been evolving independently since 1 million years ago, despite their interconnected 🌊 oceanic habitat. 🧵 (6/6)

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

The three lineages had different but overlapping shell shapes, based on 11 landmarks that we placed along their shell outline.🧵(5/6)

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

@DeyiWang4 It's so beautiful!

[Anja Westram @AnjaWestram]

New🐚paper where we try to understand the genomic architecture of #adaptation - what role do #inversions play relative to the genomic background?🧬
https://t.co/q6NNqA1HGD

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

@yannick__ I'd be interested in it too if still available!

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

Shoutout to @aletia03 for the amazing pteropod drawings on my poster👩‍🎨

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

It's been a blast at #eseb2022 so far! I presented my poster yesterday, and it's still there at 419 if you'd like to take a look 🐚🌊🧬 Happy #Pteropodptuesday to the #planktonteam! @Naturalis_Sci @FAME_IBED_UvA

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

@RuiMMFaria Ahhh rest well and I hope you'll feel better soon!!

[Le Qin Choo @lqchoo]

I'm #PhDone! Thank you to my supervisors @katjaplankton, Galice and Jef, as well as my committee for the pterrific discussion on #pteropods! It's been a great 4 years at @Naturalis_Sci @IBED_UvA and I'm excited to move to @sheffielduni for a postdoc on Littorina snails🐌🧬🌊

[Katja Peijnenburg @katjaplankton]

Happy to share that the symposium Marine Genomics and Evolution @Naturalis_Sci was a success! It was great to fill the space with science, nature, art and new ideas, with contributions from @lqchoo @ferdix @ilianaBista @JNMScience @PaulaBiomine @Werner_deGier @studiodemaan etal

[IBED @IBED_UvA]

Thursday 24 March at 13.00h, Le Qin Choo @lqchoo will defend her PhD thesis on the genomic variability and population structure in shelled pteropods. Good luck Le Qin! @FAME_IBED_UvA @Naturalis_Sci @katjaplankton

More info: https://t.co/NXid0zNOxf

[Andreia Salvador @NHM_shells]

Violet sea snails live their adult life drifting upside-down on the surface of the open ocean. They make a raft by trapping bubbles of air in a jelly-like mass that is attached to the foot.

#MolluscMonday
#InterestingShells @NHM_London
#FascinatingShells @UChicagoPress