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Annika Nichols

@annika-nichols.bsky.social

Postdoctoral fellow in Alex Schier's Lab at the Biozentrum, Basel. PhD with Manuel Zimmer at IMP, Vienna. Interests: nematodes, cichlids, sleep, thermosensation, circuits, behavioural diversity

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C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint ๐Ÿงต]

24.09.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 167    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

And thank you Max!!! It is such a exciting project and it was so much fun to do it together!

03.09.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is just the first effort of our foray into cichlid behaviour and genetics! If you are interested in working on the evolution, genomics, and neurobiology of sleep and chronobiology @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social in beautiful Toronto, please reach out! shafer-lab.netlify.app

28.08.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ across ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿฌ ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

28.08.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

15.08.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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Molecular patterns of evolutionary changes throughout the whole nervous system of multiple nematode species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624988v1 One avenue to better understand brain evolution is to map molecular patterns of evolutionary changes

Molecular patterns of evolutionary changes throughout the whole nervous system of multiple nematode species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624988v1

26.11.2024 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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19.11.2024 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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