Wow, exciting tools for separating genomic signal from symbiotic cnidarians and their symbionts. Nice work Ben Titus and @daly66

Mountains and tidepools and nudibranchs - hooray! Thank you for the warm welcome, Friday Harbor Labs! Friday Harbor Labs

Cool new paper about the mechanism of firing in stinging cells! Full of lovely images too!

Wow wow wow. Bill Browne's lab at #umiami has cultured Mnemiopsis leidyi in the lab for 52 generations! This changes everything! The world is our oyster (or maybe our ctenophore)...

Look at those embryos go!

Can't wait for cnidofest!

My lab did this for me 🧡🧡🧡. Today I feel like a real PI 😍🤣 #BabonisLab

So excited to see this paper come out! We show a single gene controls the development of the harpoon in stinging cells (nematocytes) and suggest harpoon morphology evolved convergently across cnidarians. Evan Bardot 🔬 (our editor) was incredibly helpful in bringing it all together

The #BabonisLab is hiring a postdoc to study the evolution of novelty. Come work with us on cool questions in cool critters (like this octocoral!) For more info: babonislab.com To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24483

So beautiful . I swoon every time I see it!

Not just for evodevo anymore! Stella is so versatile 😍 Lovely work!

Fantastic opportunity to study cool cells from a cool organism in a cool lab!

Great opportunity to do some wild things with worms!

The Babonis Lab at Cornell University is hiring a full-time technician to start in January 2024 (or sooner). We use marine inverts to understand how novel traits arise. (And we have a confocal - eeek!) For details and to apply: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate gene function including gene knock-in positioning Astrangia as a powerful model for coral development and evolution. More here 👇: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm already excited for next spawning season!

And they're off...go divers, go! Bring us some corals full of gametes!

The larvae dance! 😆

#cnidofest2024 is starting TODAY! We cannot wait to meet everyone! See you soon for some amazing science and epic reunions! Don't forget to tag us in your posts about the meeting.

The Babonis Lab seeks to hire a Research Associate. Applications are due 15 Dec 2024. For more details and to apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29406.