Yiting Ter

Integrative behaviour | Butterfly enjoyer | PhD student and aspiring biologist at
@UArkansas Westerman Lab | 🇸🇬

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A rare carnivorous caterpillar, previously unknown to biologists, stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, researchers report in Science.

This unique new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu.

Learn more during #InsectWeek: https://t.co/nCQYz2x4Mo

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

And yes, I came back from the dead to share my preprint. Stay tuned for my next post - when my preprint gets accepted into a journal :D All my luck points are going into that rn and I hope I roll a nat20 🎲🎲

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

The preprint of my first chapter just came out on BioRvix! #gettingclosertograduatingTYVM

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Asynchronous temporal variance in learning behaviour and neural gene expression in a butterfly https://t.co/nc6txsqZam #bioRxiv

[WSU School of Biological Sciences @wsusbs]

WSU School of Biological Sciences is looking to hire an Assistant or Associate Professor. Follow the link below for more information ⬇️

https://t.co/nhenR1oqZc

[Biology of Butterflies - Prague 2023 @ConfButterfly]

So many great lepidopterists together in one place! #bob2023

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

And just as i was having fun with presenting it... everything went to hell 🫡 #oldschoolwhiteboard
This is DEFINITELY gonna be a core memory for me 😂

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

Had a blast presenting my research about learning and its genes/ dynamic pattern this past week at Prague! #BoB2023

Had a bigger blast meeting other butterfly people and getting to hear such exciting research!

P.s. The presentation messed up my "D (bicyclus) ynamic" joke :(

[Sushant Potdar @sushant_potdar]

I am finally attending a conference with my sister @Sheetal_Potdar, which is super exciting! 😁 Do come talk to us if you are interested in sexual and aggressive behaviors 😁 @AnimBehSociety #ABS2023

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

What an interesting talk (and great dealing with technical difficulties) of @ter_yiting! Exciting to hear about gene expression during the process of a social learning in butterflies.

[Biology of Butterflies - Prague 2023 @ConfButterfly]

Introducing symposia for #BoB2023: "Phenotypic plasticity in butterflies: from traits to their mechanisms" chaired by Erica Westerman, Madeleine Carruthers, and @SeudreO.
Submit your contribution till TODAY!
#butterfly #evolution
Please RT and share with lepidopterists!

[水泥小猫 @depravedstar]

Blind Arbiters

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

@mjosmurphy @JUNIUS_64 I mean, I was gonna suggest that that label "high" in green. Gets rid of the red problem 😂

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

Amazing poster about the cryopreservation of monarch spermatozoa! Next stop, cryopreserving ovaries and seeing if any viable offspring can hatch from frozen gametes. Didnt snap a photo of the poster, but what an incredibly cool method of saving monarchs from extinction!
#SICB2023

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

Excited for #SICB2023! Come listen to me ramble about gene expression, genes, and learning in butterflies!
When? 8.30am, 7th Jan, Complimentary to S2: Neuroethology in the Age of Gene Editing
See yall there and excited to meet new scientists :)

[Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @reject_resubmit]

I love working with RNA-Seq data because you'll generate a 10-panel plot that contains more information than the human mind can possibly comprehend and you'll just be like "okay this is Figure 4" and move on

[Virginie Courtier Orgogozo @Biol4Ever]

Analysis of 218 insect genomes shows that >1400 genes were acquired by #HorizontaGeneTransfer #HGT.

LOC105383139 gene went from bacteria to Lepidoptera ancestor & now involved in courtship! Diamondback moth males lacking LOC105383139 court less.

https://t.co/4bp0rRgAKm

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

My first (of many to come), first-coauthor paper!

The yellow gene regulates behavioural plasticity by repressing male courtship in Bicyclus anynana butterflies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/SxYmqIhymI

[Yiting Ter @ter_yiting]

Not a twitter person but here's to trying to maintain a professional twitter account 😂