
Megan Martik
@meganmartikphd
Asst Professor @berkeleyMCB | neural crest in evolution, development, and tissue regeneration | she/her
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http://martiklab.org 04-10-2015 14:21:24
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“Reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain using a lamprey neural cell type atlas” – we are thrilled to share this work, which marks the beginning of our European Research Council (ERC)-funded endeavor to investigate the origins and evolution of the vertebrate brain. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


We are happy to announce the 2022 PASEDB Award winners: Pioneer Award: Leslie Pick Early Career Investigator Award: Deidre Lyons Deirdre Lyons Service Award: Billie Swalla Dr. Billie J. Swalla 🧬 Congratulations all! Awards will be presented at #EvoDevo2022 #2022SDB

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Today, Monday, May 9 is the early-discounted registration deadline for the Joint Society for Developmental Biology EvoDevo PanAm Meeting July 17-20, 2022 in Vancouver. Register by 11:59 pm ET Today! #2022SDB #EvoDevo2022 bit.ly/3oYpCjh


I’m thrilled to announce that the Piacentino Lab will be opening its doors in the Department of Cell Biology Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Medicine in early 2023! I can’t wait for all the exciting new discoveries to come!



First preprint is up on #bioRxiv! We asked how two very different tissue layers sync their growth, found a role for the Hippo pathway in cell shape changes, and made #Drosophila wing discs with Really Big Cells 👇 Iswar Hariharan, ईश्वर हरिहर, ஹரிஹரன் ஈஸ்வரன் #DevBio doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…


We're so excited to have you, Lara Busby!!

SO happy this is live! See Sager Gosai tweet explaining our amazing collab with Rodrigo I Castro, Ryan Tewhey, Pardis Sabeti! TLDR: Used AI to learn to 'read' the genome's regulatory code and 'write' new, synthetic functions. Evolution didn't create this neuronal enhancer, but it works!




Our study on the lamprey neural cell type atlas and the origins of the vertebrate brain, led by @frnclmn and Francisca Hervas-Sotomayor, is now out in NatureEcoEvo! nature.com/articles/s4155…


The postdoc position in my lab UoM Biology, Medicine and Health is open for applications until 15th November jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… and I am also looking for a research technician jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…! Come and have fun with Chicken embryos and single-cell Multiomics! 🐣🧬🐣