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A look inside an ancestral arthropod dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Perhaps the most remarkable fossil I'll ever work on!

Really happy that my PhD work done in Hiroshi Watanabe lab OIST is finally out. Neuronal and non-neuronal functions of the synaptic cell adhesion molecule neurexin in Nematostella vectensis. nature.com/articles/s4146…

[New Paper] Interested in #olfaction, respiration, and nasal cavities? 👃🧠🐭🐒🐺🦇🐦‍⬛🐍🦎🐊🐸 Check out our review of turbinal bones across tetrapods, now published in Biological Reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

երախտապարտ իմ ծնողներին 😎 Quality morning time with the parents!

Many specialized metabolite classes have convergently evolved across the plant kingdom. Pleased to share our latest work arguing for why such sporadic evolution has occurred, using cyanogenic glycosides as a case study. Raquel S P doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.…

I am proud to share that I am officially a citizen of Armenia, and I am honored to be competing under my Armenian flag starting at the Cincinnati Open on Monday! Excited for this new chapter and to bring success to my ancestral homeland. 🎾

This group of Icicle Spine #fungi (Mucronella pendula) is our more-than-#TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day! Seen in #Australia by frya. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2… #nature #biodiversity #mycology

Congratulations to Svenja Kling for winning UCSD's art of Science Competition with a photo of a transgenic sea urchin larva! library.ucsd.edu/news-events/20…

This is what i mean when I say Armenian is a very hard language to learn but unique 😭

Do fish use the moon to manipulate the sex of their offspring? See our latest paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! (🧵1/6) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Society Publishing The Royal Society Marsden Fund Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Osenberg Lab Suzanne Alonzo Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Coastal Ecology Lab

Thank you Friday Harbor Labs for the incredible honor of inviting me to give this year’s Paul Illg lecture. So much yet to discover in the diverse life around this special place.

It came from the deep(ish) ocean... and then transitioned to a euryhaline lifestyle causing widespread fish-killing blooms in brackish water throughout Texas and Europe... It's Prymnesium parvum and their #PKZILLA s! Now in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Thoughts in:🧵

Save the date: GIGA V Conference will be in the Philippines in July 2026. For more info visit: bsky.app/profile/invert… #genome #invertebrate

Before there were animals, there were transcription factors! Researchers in Drs. Alex de Mendoza's (Alex de Mendoza) and Ralf Jauch's (Ralf Jauch) teams showed that Sox and POU factors predate animal stem cells. 📑 Nature Communications: go.nature.com/49dsMFx 🎙️: bit.ly/4g70Sxm

Very happy to share our new paper, now out in Nature Communications. We found an (adaptive?) Y chromosome introgression between ~6 million years divergent guenon species, which we think is pretty wild given Haldane’s rule etc. Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Whoo! Check out my first first-author paper. Super excited to have this out. Thanks to all the co-authors that made this possible! Stay tuned for more ‘development’ of secretory innovations at SICB2025. You can find the official paper published here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

I’m migrating over to Bluesky! Check out this #Armenian👩‍🔬աղջիկ in science at: