Emily Kerns

I'm dissecting a fish under a dissecting scope. I'm wearing a light blue dry suit and gloves. The dissection table is in a wood garage. There's a white pickup truck parked behind me and moose and deer antlers on the walls.

I'm working in a fume hood with a student. We're both wearing lab coats and safety glasses. We turned around and are smiling at the camera.

I wrote an op-ed on the importance of federally funded science for my hometown newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetter initiative. Thanks
@cornellasap.bsky.social
for organizing this initiative! Here's some action shots of NSF and NIH funded science. www.tbnweekly.com/opinion/arti...

25.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Four photos for the four research jobs I’ve had. Two as an intern for the NPS and USFS, one as a USFS employee, and one as a NIH and NSF-funded grad student. The future is uncertain, but I love doing science and I don’t plan to stop

24.02.2025 06:15 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

07.02.2025 22:11 — 👍 565    🔁 430    💬 9    📌 34

Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback Factors that affect dispersal can have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we show that an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—does not influence threespine stickle...

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

12.12.2024 16:09 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Early Career Award Seminar The J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting early-career evolutionary biologists from outside UW-Madison to apply to participate in an early-c...

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for Early Career Awardees! Please pass this along to any PhD students or post docs who may be interested in visiting UW-Madison to give a guest lecture at our Evolution Seminar Series

evolution.wisc.edu/seminars/ear...

16.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

26.10.2024 17:45 — 👍 687    🔁 326    💬 27    📌 62

NSF GRFP changed the submission process so that letters of rec. are due ~10 days BEFORE the student application deadline. So dumb.

Students need to start their submissions so the recommenders will be notified by NSF about the request.

Hyp.: # of 2023 applications > # of 2024 applications

26.09.2024 01:54 — 👍 37    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 0

Excited to share a new preprint:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
In 2019 we founded 9 whole lake populations of stickleback, as part of a massive eco-evo experiment. Here, we report the first half decade of host-parasite & immune trait dynamics...
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29.06.2024 22:14 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

It was cool to arrive in AK after driving for 3 days (from BC) to then receive an email indicating our paper describing the big Alaska stickleback experiment is out.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

28.06.2024 02:10 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

microPublication - Get Your Data Out, Be Cited

Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB!

www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT

03.06.2024 20:05 — 👍 145    🔁 125    💬 5    📌 6

I just left the annual Wisconsin Epigenetics Symposium! Listening to researchers from across UW-Mad who study everything cancer to cellular differentiation to evolution, it’s always a pleasant surprise to be reminded of just how broad and cutting edge the field of epigenetics is

23.10.2023 21:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 2024 AGA Awards round is open!

Evolutionary, Ecological, and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Awards to grads & postdocs. Up to $6,000 to conclude genomic research projects and prepare results for publication. 

More info at www.theaga.org
Deadline: Midnight EST, 13 Dec 2023

19.10.2023 22:48 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

"Shockingly, there has yet to be a K99 awardee at a historically Black college or university."

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

18.10.2023 12:12 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

More than bad luck: Cancer and aging are linked to replication-driven changes to the epigenome Cellular replication leaves an epigenetic fingerprint that may partially underly the age-associated increase in cancer risk.

"Coincidently, the DNAm changes observed in aging, cancer, and proliferation share some notable patterns. In general, they tend to be characterized by gains in methylation at promoters (...) and loss of methylation in intergenic regions and repetitive elements"

15.10.2023 09:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Neat! Identifying genes that underlie the development of sensory legs in sea robin.

15.10.2023 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0