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The Friday Evening Lectures are the quintessential MBL tradition, given each and every summer since our founding in 1888... and this year, we're going digital. mbl.edu/fel

New paper from the lab about the “taste-touch” sense of the octopus and how it is used to explore the ocean environment!

Regulation of Vacuole Morphology by PIEZO Channels in Spreading Earth Moss biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share grad student Joe Magliozzi's latest work, now posted on bioRxiv. A fun project that led us in unexpected directions: a PAK kinase regulates P bodies for cell polarity in normal and starved conditions. Enjoy! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're hiring! Please check out the following TWO open positions: 1) Imaging Scientist 2) Post-doctoral Fellow For more information on both positions, see our website: hcbi.fas.harvard.edu/news/hcbi-hiri…

Postdoc openings! Explore molecular adaptations underlying unique behaviors. Octopus, sharks, jellyfish, photosynthetic animals, walking fish, more. ~Whatever is cool :) Background in cell biology, physiology, biochemistry, structure, other molecular approaches. Email me.

Happy and proud to see that the paper of my brilliant student in Colombia, Laura Laura, is finally out!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… We show phylogenetic tracking of butterfly herbivores for a group of ancient gymnosperms!!

Where do new senses come from? In paired studies, we explore the structural basis of sensory receptor evolution in octopus and squid. @CoreyAHallard Wendy Valencia @RyanHibbs10 nature - nature.com/articles/s4158… - nature.com/articles/s4158…

Where do novel organs come from? A guide to exploring sea robins, walking fish with “legs.” Exciting collaborative studies to come... Corey Allard, Amy Herbert, David Kingsley - cell.com/current-biolog…

How do jellyfish and anemones decide when to sting? Here, we ask "to sting or not to sting" Lily He Corey Allard Wendy Valencia @stephalopod @AgneseSeminara eLife - the journal MCB_Harvard elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

To Sting or Not to Sting: How Changes to an Ion Channel Shape Sea Anemone Stinging [Bellono Lab] Nicholas Bellono Lily He @AgneseSeminara Corey Allard Keiko Weir mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Where do new animal traits come from? We studied walking fish with “legs” to understand the evolution of novel organs and behavior. Corey Allard, Amy Herbert, David Kingsley, MCB_Harvard, Stanford Medicine, @HHMINews, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) - biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Guide to octopus "taste by touch" chemotactile sensation. Corey Allard Wendy Valencia Current Biology MCB_Harvard - cell.com/current-biolog…

How do vocal muscles protect against self-induced auditory masking? Check out what we found in the vocal plainfin midshipman fish!

It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! Rebecca Varney Joie Cannon Morris A. Aguilar Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Where do new organs come from? In paired studies, we explore walking fish with "legs" to learn about the evolution of new traits. Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Cell Press, Current Biology -cell.com/current-biolog… -cell.com/current-biolog…

How do organisms evolve new traits and behaviors? In Annual Reviews, Wendy Valencia surveys major sensory receptor families to uncover evolutionary patterns of sensation driving diversification and speciation. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs have specialized depots in their cells that store photosynthetic equipment looted from algae go.nature.com/4emIHnx

Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Cell Press, MCB_Harvard, Harvard Medical School cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Corey Allard and Amy Lee discuss curious "solar-powered" animals that steal and maintain foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Dana-Farber News, Harvard Medical School news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…