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Our new bioRxiv! The Hydractinia Cell Atlas. Neither the hermit crab, nor the dead mollusc that once occupied the shell, but the colonial cnidarian growing on top. Can we learn more about how this association evolved using single-cell analysis? 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The first of my main PhD papers is out now as a preprint! Co-first authored with David A. Salamanca-Díaz, we generated an atlas of Hydractinia cell types, including tissue from all specialist colony parts. Check out Jordi Solana thread below for some fresh memes and deets

Jordi Solana The long-anticipated #Hydractinia cell atlas is ready to use: 200,000 cells from different colony parts; i-cells, neurons, namatos, epithelia, and other goodies. Pleasure to work with Jordi Solana Jordi Paps and the joint firsts Helen Horkan David A. Salamanca-Díaz biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#Hydractinia preprint alert! We characterized eight new i-cell marker genes from our scAtlas, investigated their expression in different tissues and biological contexts, ultimately providing a broader view of this cnidarian’s stem cell population: tinyurl.com/3ss8f98h

Happy to see the final "peer reviewed" version of our work on epigenetically regulated giant virus endogenizations out today in Science Advances, after nice constructive reviews: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. The preprint X-plainer remains valid, so for a quick read see below 👇

The tragedy & humiliation of trying to publish #OA for us folks in lower-mid income countries: 🇧🇷's Kowaltowski "emailed journal 12 times asking for a discount ... #Elsevier threatened Kowaltowski with legal action if she didn’t pay the quoted fee." 👉🏽 science.org/content/articl…

The CCB is looking for candidates to apply for independent fellowships to join us here in beautiful Galway. If you are interested please reach out! nature.com/naturecareers/…

Does 6mA exist in eukaryotic DNA? This is our take on this dispute: yes it does, and can be very abundant, but mostly correlates with presence of the MT-A70 writer AMT1. Then, 6mA is associated with transcriptionally-permissive chromatin (H3K4me3) 1/6: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to the groups of X-less Benyamin Rosental and Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Traylor-Knowles Lab (@cnidimmunitylab) for this important publication! I'm very glad we could take part in this cool project about stem cells in #Nematostella sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

SOX and POU are crucial Transcription Factors in animal development, believed to be innovations. We found them in unicellular relatives of animals. And hold tight, you can use a choanoflagellate 🦠 SOX gene to make a full chimeric 🐁 ! Read more here: rdcu.be/d0dPN 1/6

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Our lab @ the Living Systems Institute is recruiting PhD students! 📢 Two opportunities to study stem cell differentiation and cell type evolution using single cell transcriptomics, combining wet lab methods and new computational approaches. exeter.ac.uk/research/insti… Pls RP!

New in Science Advances Curantz camille et al. find that part of the #Hydractinia gonad acts a sexual organizer; it induces germ fate in pluripotent i-cells. Germ cells secrete the TGF-beta Gonadless to induce and maintain the gonad science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our review on the potential of doctor fish as a model organism is out! Grateful for this international collaboration with Uni Vienna, Mie Univ, BRIN (Indonesia), and Akdeniz (Turkey), fostering cross-disciplinary discussions! Yasuhito SHIMADA (島田康人) Koto Kon-Nanjo, MD zoologicalletters.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratz Tetsuo, interesting to see you had a collabolator in BRIN

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

Single-cell analyses reveal scyphozoan conserved and specific genes contribution during tissue regeneration in two jellyfish. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Finally, our genome paper on the heat-tolerant “doctor fish” is out in Scientific Data! It paves the way for studying heat tolerance and developing human cancer xenograft models at 37°C for drug screening! Worked with Mie Uni (Japan) and BRIN (Indonesia). nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our first paper on the temperate coral Astrangia poculata is out! Read more about this most excellent model system below. Exciting collaboration with Leslie S. Babonis, Dr. Koty Sharp ! evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…