Our new #preprint on #amblypygid and #spider developmental toolkit genes is now online! Evidence of widespread duplication from WGD, incl. the 1st case of Wnt1/wg in #whipspiders!🕷️thanks to Amber Harper, @McGregorLab (Luis B-G, Anna S, Saad A) Michaela Holzem & Michael Seiter!

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Please retweet: Our lab at Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes BMS is recruiting two postdocs! Come join us if you are interested in using scRNA-seq to study stem cells and evolution. We are looking for one experimental and one computational researcher. See thread for details:

Its been a pleasure to be a part of this collaboration!! Take a look for insights into the genetic basis for eye size difference in Drosophila species!

What a good start! 2 grants in the past 2 weeks from Fundación BBVA & Agencia Estatal de Investigación.Thrilled to announce that we're opening positions soon to join the lab at GeneticsUB thanks to the support of Fundación BBVA & Agencia Estatal de Investigación SESBE the Node SEBD European Reference Genome Atlas IRBioUB 1/3

A few days late, but PhD viva is complete, Dr Dellar is here! Despite the nerves, Thanks to Clive Wilson and Dr Stuart Hunt for all their questions: despite the nerves I just about enjoyed it! 🎉🎉

Looking forward to presenting at #YEN2022

Great News! We (@SebKittelmann , Jack Sunter and myself) have been awarded a BBSRC BBRF grant to tag every transcription factor in the Drosophila genome endogenously with an exchangeable tag in a collaboration between Brookes_CFG and Brookes Bioimaging at Oxford Brookes BMS Oxford Brookes University

📣🚨📢 PhD funding alert! 📢🚨📣 Would you like to come and study animal visual systems with us in Berlin? Applications are open for the Elsa Neumann PhD stipend! Get in touch now to discuss project ideas! Deadline 18 Nov Info event 11 Oct More here 👉🏽fu-berlin.de/sites/drs/fund…

PHYLOPIC 2.0 IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Go check out the newer, faster, more useful PhyloPic here: phylopic.org

Do you like eyes? Do you prefer your animals without bones? Come and hang out with us in Göttingen! PosnienLab - moved to: @posnienlab.bsky.social @McGregorLab and Maike Kittelmann are hosting 2 days of vision-related fun! 🥳🦂🪱🪳✨🐌👀🕷️🦞💃🦑🎉🦪🪰 Register by 20 Feb for an absolute bargain (incl. Dinner!) 💪

Check out my new paper for insights into Ubx regulation! Big thanks to co-authors @McGregorLab and @SebKittelmann #drosophila #ubXratedcontent

#Dros23 Excited to be in Chicago (jet lag aside), and even more excited to hear about the latest research within the fly community! Also - will be giving a talk Friday morning at the Evolution II session, be ready for male genitalia galore. See you all soon!

Our highly interdisciplinary meeting covering various aspects of invertebrate eyes came to an end this afternoon. Thanks a lot for all your beautiful contributions and lively discussions! To be repeated! #InvertEyeGoe23

Our culture of Pardosa is beginning! 🕷️ This mother wolf spider has really put in some work, she has carried this cocoon for several weeks and will now carry her spiderlings on her back until they are ready to disperse! Is it weird that I am proud of her?! 🕷️

Multi-level regulation of even-skipped stripes by the ubiquitous factor Zelda Read this Research Article by Timothy Bishop, Pinar Onal pinar onal, Zhe Xu, Rhea Datta (@embryologistics Hamilton College) and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

New publication coming out of my collaboration with all these lovely people! @McGregorLab Maike Kittelmann Lauren Sumner-Rooney Dr. Alex Buffry @ravindra_pn doi.org/10.1186/s12915…