Molette Lab

Molette Biology Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies

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@echinoblog I've been trying to find a good global key to holothuroid families (better yet, genera). Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Excited to see UMD's Adam Bazinet give a shout-out to @kmkocot & #mollusc #phylogenomics at #PhyloFrontiers2013 !!

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Day 2 at #PhyloFrontiers2013, great informal talks/discussion of phylogenomic methods.

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With next gen sequencing, today's students can do a 1980's thesis in a thousandth of a second. #genomics

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Rob deSalle from #amnh up first, "My students could do my dissertation in 5 minutes."

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3 Molette Lab students attending Frontiers of Phylogenetics symposium at the #smithsonian. Live-tweeting #genomics!

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Molette Lab students @AuburnU AU Explore outreach event! #wareagle

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Taking grad student servitude to a whole new level - @Molette_Lab PI Scott Santos gets a ride.

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We're on a limited internet connection so we haven't been able to upload photos of animals from the trawls... Stay tuned.

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Trawl is on its way up from 4500+ meters!

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All six landers are safely on the bottom. Hopefully they're being colonized by inverts as we speak! Now we're on to benthic sampling.

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Five landers down, one to go!

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Waves up to 13 feet but at least it's sunny :)

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This work is part of a collaboration with Dr. Craig Smith's lab at the University of Hawaii to study deep-sea ecology and phylogeography.

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Each lander has wood, whale bones, and "control" substrates.

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Landers 2 and 3 are safely on the bottom!

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Lander 1 is on its way down!

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Members from the Molette lab are currently at sea on the R/V Oceanus participating in a project to study whale bone-eating worms!

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For Molette Lab #Antarctic news, keep following @Icy_Inverts_AU !!

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Welcome to the new general-use twitter for @AuburnU 's Molette Lab! From here we'll be promoting lab news, including research cruises!