multiplEye Lab
@multipleye_lab
Unravelling the function and evolution of many-eyed visual systems. Now @multipleye-lab.bsky.social
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Our latest paper on marronoid spiders is published! 🔥 congratulations Jacob Gorneau Lauren Esposito SCC Kate Montana Lina Almeida and others Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae) academic.oup.com/isd/article/7/…
Want to understand the evolution of first brains🧠?Come join us Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen . Postdoc position available: "Decoding the gelatinous origins of brain evolution" as part of our HFSP grant w Fred Wolf Uni Göttingen #ctenophores. RTs highly appreciated. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
Very happy that our beginner's guide to the ithomiine butterfly visual system is now alive and kickin' in Journal of Experimental Biology! 🙌 We report extensive variation in the visual system, hinting at its lability to evolve adaptations to distinct visual environments. 🦋journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…
In the run-up to the holidays, delighted to see this commentary on the diversity of visual system architecture published as part of the Journal of Experimental Biology Centenary series! 👀👀👀 Thank you so much Almut Kelber & editorial team for the invitation to contribute! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…
. Lauren Sumner-Rooney @Multipleye_Lab discusses the diversity of architecture in animal visual systems, particularly those that depart from the typical two-eyed configuration in her JEB100 Commentary in addition to outlining future directions in the area journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…
Also, if you were interested by our recent pre-print on 🕷️ eye development - @McGregorLab, Vivek Nityananda and myself have a PhD project currently open! Apply by 5th January for funded places!
Super excited to have started my travelling fellowship Macquarie University working with @MarieHerberstei and Ajay Narendra on the vision of weird and wonderful Australian spiders, thanks to funding from Journal of Experimental Biology The Company of Biologists 🕷️🇦🇺
Delighted to see chiton eyes hitting the scientific bigtime! 🤩 New work by Rebecca Varney, Todd Oakley and colleagues identifies a new clue to the evolution of distributed vision in the best molluscs 👀
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…
I had a great time giving a seminar at Western Sydney University Western Sydney U - HIE yesterday on their Hawkesbury campus near the blue mountains! Thank you to everyone that came and asked super interesting questions, and Dr Kate Umbers for kindly hosting!
We (Exeter Visual Ecology University of Exeter CEC) are hosting a FREE visual ecology symposium in Falmouth, Cornwall on Tuesday 2nd July. Limited to 50 attendees, a day of talks followed by beach BBQ (weather permitting!) DM for more info or sign up here rb.gy/2z52r9
New perspective published in PNASNews about fluorescence in tetrapods. Briefly: Fluorescence is probably usually not a visual signal, but that doesn't mean it isn't interesting! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… w/ Michaël Nicolaï Javier Ábalos Liliana D'Alba Matthew Shawkey & Jonathan Goldenberg
Fabulous work from Kaylin, who was a stellar summer intern back at Oxford University Museum of Natural History 🥳 as well as collaborator Craig Perl Arizona State University and student assistant Angi Grahn @mfnberlin! Thank you all 💛 as well as to Jonas Wolff for making such a wonderful dataset available to all!