Anyi Mazo-Vargas

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass.

Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination

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🦋✂️🧬 🧪 New preprint! Led by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social CRISPR‑Cas9 knockouts of ABCG transporters across butterflies & moths reveal how pigment pathways shape color during development. #CRISPR #Lepidoptera #pigmentation
Feedback welcome 👩‍🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My favorite vaquita

Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social

We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬

To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).

🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

@evodevopanam.bsky.social

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

🔔Apply now!🔔

January 22 is the last day to apply to the MBL's 2025 Embryology course! This comprehensive overview of modern developmental biology is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior researchers.

Learn more: bit.ly/3DKPMjH
#ScienceStartsHere

New preprint by butterfly wizard
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social

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

We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025:
Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems

Aug 27-22, 2025
Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice

Register at:
meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Deadline is March 31, 2025.

#VeniceEvoDevo

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Pan-Am Evo Devo (PASEDB) Our next meeting will be July 22-25 at the  University of Miami in summer 2025, with satellite meetings on July 21. More details will be forthcoming!

Evodevo folks! This is the official account of the PASEDB. The top image is by Nikolay Kovalenko. www.panamevodevo.org

The flowers in the greenhouse 🦋🌱🧪

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@mcgregorlab.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing a dispatch article discussing the latest work from @gavinrrice.bsky.social and @rebeizlab.bsky.social. You can find it over on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy unpacking!

We arrived in NC, USA, between June & October of this year; we are on an adventure together: a new lab, a new city, & new experiments! @tianshenbio.bsky.social @mosaiclep.bsky.social excellent postdocs! Super bright Joye Zhou (my first PhD student 😃) & our fantastic lab manager Brianna McKenna!

🌟 Introducing the Mazo-Vargas Lab @DukeU. 🌟
🧬 We employ #genetics, #functional-genomics, and #evodevo approaches to untangle the genetic basis of morphological adaptive traits.

7 years ago, I met a junior fellow named Jason Buenrostro who blew me away with a vision of futuristic genomic technologies

Today, we (Ajay Labade, Caroline Comenho) are excited to share our first steps into that future: Expansion in situ genome sequencing

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I would love to be added to this list #Lepidoptera 🦋

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

#EvoDevo

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