Holly Moeller

I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org

What a wonderful meeting to participate in this week! My brain is full, and new collaborations are kicking off! #unicornjob🦄

A closer look at our attempts at correlating gene expression and physiology. #figaday 4.023/n #year4

Data reconciliation puzzles #figaday 4.022/n #year4

The last time I wrote a proposal on this work, *multiple* reviewers said undergraduates couldn't handle running these experiments. Our #wundergrads have been getting extra love from their #fueledbyspite PI ever since. #figaday 4.021/n #year4

This is why we don't write talks the night before we give them. #figaday 4.020/n #year4

Literally a figure from 2018. But now in black. #figaday 4.019/n #year4

Fill-in-the-blanks, but on a boat. #figaday 4.018/n #year4

And pigmentation is declining as well. #figaday 4.017/n #year4

Everybody getting smaller. #figaday 4.016/n #year4

Same data, motivated to visualize them better. #figaday 4.015/n #year4

Scatterplots of growth rate, cell size, and pigment content for a lineage evolving at cold and hot temperatures.

Like a 4th of July firework. #figaday 4.014/n #year4

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

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#CSEE2025

California! Big Sur in the foreground, and Monterey Bay behind. (on the Santa Barbara to San Francisco flight)

If you decide to start your own thread, I can't wait to cheer you on and see all the amazing things you're up to.

Thanks Joey. ♥️ You inspire me too! I think you get to make your own rules!! For me, it's about doing something every day to stay connected to science in a sustainable way. So sometimes it's an incremental improvement, sometimes it's new data, sometimes it's a photo, and sometimes it's a day off!

Probably the nicest example we'll see of repeated evolutionary responses in our replicate lineages. #figaday 4.013/n #year4

Come and Join our Dpt in Beautiful #Geneva !

We are looking for a #Microscopy & #Image #Analysis expert to help all of us at the Dpt.

Definitely going to understand these data well enough to give a coherent talk next week. #figaday 4.012/n #year4

Barplot showing data for clearance rates by species and bacterial treatment. The bars are a rainbow of colors, with error bars and asterisks showing statistical differences.

Half work, half sleep. Absolutely no complaints about that flight. :) #figaday 4.011/n #year4

The answer, sadly, was "no." #figaday #metadata

Scouting field sites from the sky... #figaday 4.010/n #year4

Will I submit this paper before my flight tomorrow? Only the next 24hrs will tell... #figaday 4.009/n #year4

Initial data from a pilot undergraduate project showing how population size, cell size, and chlorophyll content change over the course of a growth curve.

Photograph through a microscope of a culture of algae.

New #wundergrad project and an inverted microscope that lets light through! #figaday 4.008/n #year4

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Thank you for your attention to this ladder!

Dark red/maroon crab viewed face on in an aquarium. It has red eyes and seems to have a friendly but shy expression. It is in some white sand and is below a white rock

Maybe your day would be improved by an adorable friend shaped crab, Carpilius convexus 🦀

From the reef tank subreddit (I don't have one but like looking at them):
www.reddit.com/r/ReefTank/s...

Baby trees in conetainers.

Uprooted seedling showing its number, exposed root system with colonizing fungi, and a datasheet in the background

Results showing colonization increasing in abundance and consistency over time in the experiment

Transplanted seedling with root systems dipped into different gels for testing.

Wild to think these seedlings have been with us for two years... and are now moving on to pilot more complicated things. #teachushowtodougie #figaday 4.007/n #year4

Velella velella (by-the-wind-sailor) jellyfish in the foreground on a thin layer of seawater. Tree islands on a beach are in the background, out of focus.

Series of three plots showing how stress, epigenetic marker abundance, and epigenetic marker removal tendency evolve over time in a population of 20 organisms.

Happy Canada Day 🍁🇨🇦❤️ (photo from Vancouver Island, 2017), cry over a microscope day, and inch one supplementary figure closer to submitting a 5-year-old paper day. #figaday 4.006/n #year4

Shipping pallet filled with microscope parts

Microscope in boxes

Unboxed!

Partially assembled microscope at least powers on

Basically the most hard core Christmas morning ever. #figaday 4.005/n #year4