Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
14.04.2025 00:58 β π 6648 π 2406 π¬ 95 π 101@pandolfatto.bsky.social
Evolution/Ecology meets Genetics @ Columbia University. We use a variety of organisms (πͺ°π¦πΈπͺ²) and approaches (mol evo and pop gen, mol bio, experimental evo, genetic engineering) to better understand constraints on adaptation.
Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
14.04.2025 00:58 β π 6648 π 2406 π¬ 95 π 101Flyer with images of blossoming flowers, accompanied by text: 4/19 New York Fights Back Protect Migrants Protect Our Planet Date: Saturday, April 19 Time: 12pm Location: Bryant Park
Flyer with images of blossoming flowers, accompanied by text: April 19, 12pm Saturday Before Earth Day March for Migrants & Protect the Planet! New York Fights Back No broligarchs! No kings! Put people over profits!
Flyer with images of blossoming flowers, a large butterfly, and a group of smaller butterflies in the distance, accompanied by text: Declaration of Interdependence
Flyer with images of blossoming flowers, accompanied by text: Our fates are intertwined β when ICE attacks migrants, when polluters poison neighborhoods, when billionaires cut our jobs, they attack us all. This Earth Day weekend, we declare our interdependence and fight back as one.
NYC, itβs time to take to the streets again.
Weβre joining over 40 cosponsors to protest authoritarianism, and march for a planet where we place people over profit.
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Saturday, April 19
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Weβll see you in the streets.
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
β¨I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Next Friday, @pandolfatto.bsky.social , will give the IJM Seminar "The evolution of toxin-resistant Na+,K+-ATPases: new insights from frogs and fireflies"
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βThe distribution of highly deleterious variants across human ancestry groupsβ. Preprint with Anastasia Stolyarova and @gcbias.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
02.02.2025 19:00 β π 132 π 70 π¬ 1 π 1Although it feels bizarre to be posting about research with what has been going on in the US this week, I want to highlight new work from graduate student @nemovrobles.bsky.social whose first-first author paper on mitonuclear incompatibilities in swordtails just posted on bioRxiv. shorturl.at/gC71V
01.02.2025 23:17 β π 98 π 26 π¬ 1 π 2"We describe a #mtDNA variant that confers protection against variety of pathogens in #Drosophila. This protection was at least partially caused by enhanced cell-mediated innate #immunity, including higher numbers of immune cells prior to and during infection."
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
This year I always had my camera and a small photo box to hand when I was gardening. My children are always finding caterpillars outside, and I wanted to document that a bit this year. With the exception of the garden tiger moth (Arctia caja), they all came from my garden.
09.12.2024 20:21 β π 677 π 144 π¬ 26 π 5Want to perform HIGH EFFICIENCY Homology Directed Repair in Drosophila spp? Try Atalanta plasmids. About 10X higher efficiency than other methods!
Tag or delete genes, invert chromosome regions, make scarless site-specific modifications. All with easy cloning.
This paper is proudly bioRxiv only!
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π£ Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, weβd love to hear from you.
PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N
Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB
RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated!
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Just posting this to #popgen
Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics:
github.com/cooplab/popg...
Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.
Please share widely: The 2025 Speciation Gordon Research Conference (March 2-7 2025) is now open for registration to anyone. If you wish to attend, apply here:
www.grc.org/speciation-c...
Attendees can present posters, and there are a couple open talk slots to be filled from poster abstracts.
A really nice News and Views about our paper by @tollkuhn.bsky.social ππ½
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hi Nathan, I couldn't get the biorxiv link to work
01.10.2024 18:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How do animals know when itβs their turn to communicate during a conversation?
In our latest preprint, we study the behavior and neurobiology of aggressive visual turn-taking of Siamese fighting (betta) fish to find out.
Work lead by Claire Everett
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Nice write up in Science Magazine about our ivory lncRNA color patterning preprints! Way to go @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social, @lucalivraghi.bsky.social, and Tian Shen!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Excited to share a new pre-print from our lab that demonstrates surprisingly repeatable genome evolution in replicated Xiphophorus hybrid populations! Led by former postdoc Quinn Langdon with substantial contributions from Jeff Groh from @gcbias.bsky.social's lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
23.12.2023 23:23 β π 43 π 27 π¬ 1 π 2Hey don't forget that both World Central Kitchen (wck.org) and Doctors Without Borders (msf.org) are on the ground in Gaza helping out.
And they can use your help too.
Zach Baker's paper modeling the rapid evolution of PRDM9 is now out in eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/83769
14.12.2023 23:48 β π 18 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0This is me trying out Blusky! I am interested in #viruses #genomes #Drosophila #evolution and #popgen.
Here is a pretty picture of some flies from the UK, as an attention-grabber (visit obbard.bio.ed.ac.uk/photos.html for more!)