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Dennis Lavrov

@dlavrov.bsky.social

Evolutionary Biologist | Connoisseur of sponges | Professor @ Iowa State University | Associate Editor for Genome Biology and Evolution Lab website: https://lavrovlab.github.io | #Evolution | #Phylogenetics | #Porifera | #Mitochondria |

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SponBIODIV @biodiversa.eu participates in a new population genomics study of the beautiful Mediterranean🧽 Axinella polypoides. Findings emphasize the importance of protecting mesophotic habitats!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.01.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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2026 May Be The Year Coral Reefs Around The World Finally Collapse Tropical coral reefs cover less than 1% of the seafloor, yet support 25% of all marine species.

CORAL REEF NEWS: 2026 May Be The Year Coral Reefs Around The World Finally Collapse

Read full story here: www.sciencealert.com/2026-may-be-...

#coralreefs #tippingpoint #climatenews #coralnews #climatechange #coralbleaching #coralreefecology #marinescience #marinebiology

10.01.2026 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More goings on in eukaryotic ancestors, this time from @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and friends. The data is coming thick and fast! #actin #nucleus #LECA #asgard #mitochondria #phylogeny

04.12.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was reading this earlier today - such an important advance!

17.07.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep

17.07.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sloan Lab Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

sites.google.com/site/danielb...

14.07.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yep- the bogus summer reading list from the Chicago Sun Times is real. Here I am with it from a few minutes ago.

(Support your local library!!)

20.05.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 43
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Tell Congress to reject Arctic drilling The Trump EPA’s plan to roll back crucial climate and environmental regulations will dismantle decades of progress in reducing harmful climate pollution. It’s a giveaway to Big Oil, and it comes at ev...

Congress is considering opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling in their latest government funding bill.

We can’t let this happen – demand that Congress rejects Arctic drilling in this bill.

πŸ‘‰ act.350.org/letter/may-2...

09.05.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be. Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.
17.04.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9
APRIL 17
DAY OF ACTION
FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION
JOIN US!

APRIL 17 DAY OF ACTION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION JOIN US!

TOMORROW!

Stand Up for Higher Education!
Join an action in your area!

@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social

16.04.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9
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Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health? Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.

Nature reports on how researchers are studying why mitochondria are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases. πŸ§ͺ

12.04.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Sign the Petition Save the ISU Insect Zoo!!!

www.change.org/p/save-the-i...

11.04.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida β€˜countries of concern’ law β€œI never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation,” the fired professor said.

β€œI never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation” at New College in the United States.

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

30.03.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hands Off! Ames Fights Back Β· Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** Ames is fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands onβ€”our health care, our data, our jobs, our servicesβ€”and d...

Ames protest next Saturday: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

29.03.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

29.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3840    πŸ” 1522    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 351
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First map of human brain mitochondria is β€˜groundbreaking’ achievement Nature - Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

πŸ§ͺ Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain

https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV

29.03.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Calling all faculty across campuses nationwide: sign our petition to condemn ICE and DHS activity on campuses as well as the arrest and detention of Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Korda, Read and sign onto the rest of our statement: link here and in bio bit.ly/3XUwsHM

20.03.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Page non trouvΓ©e

12.02.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky is only 12 months old :/

10.02.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pervasive mitochondrial tRNA gene loss in the clade B of haplosclerid sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) Abstract. Mitochondrial tRNA gene loss and cytosolic tRNA import are two common phenomena in mitochondrial biology, but their importance is often under-app

Our article on unusual mtDNA evolution in a group of sponges has been published in GBE. Please let me know if you have any comments or notice any errors. #mitochondria #Porifera #tRNA

07.02.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

06.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Elated to share the PhyKIT protocols manuscript appeared on the cover of Current ProtocolsπŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³
bsky.app/profile/jlst...

07.02.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#mitochondria ... and you still call us powerhouses!

07.02.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

05.02.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, they are hermaphroditic. If two tripodfish happen to meet, they mate. But if there is no partner, no problem: one fish can produce both sperms and eggs and reproduce by itself.

03.02.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Mitochondria

02.02.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure how this sponge feels being out of the water!
#Porifera

31.01.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool #mitochondria (the rest is not bad either!)

31.01.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Β‘eso!

31.01.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0