Embryology, anatomy and evolution of vertebrates @MBLScience | Natural history, photography and science/art | he/him

Woods Hole, MA
Joined April 2016
Join the @RawlinsonLab @MBLScience as a postdoctoral researcher! Parasites, advanced imaging, and connectomics in beautiful Woods Hole - what more could you want?! recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR10…
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#DBfeature 🌊 Fgf signalling is required for gill slit formation in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea by Jenaid Rees, Michael Palmer, Andrew Gillis @GillisLab @MBLScience sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Grad students and postdocs, join us in Woods Hole for a 2-week Comparative Developmental Biology course! Course Directors @Parflyale and @Lab_VPrince, and faculty @EcheverriLab @CarrieOcto and @GillisLab. Application deadline 20 June.
Are you a #gradstudent or #postdoc fascinated by developmental biology? Join us in October for this two-week lab-intensive course — Comparative Developmental Biology at the MBL. Applications due June 20. go.mbl.edu/CDB
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This is our year! Please vote, everyone! #skateisgreat
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The skeletal biology equivalent of that one plastic Tupperware container that is permanently tinted orange by pasta sauce…
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Congratulations @scimaven!!!!
Super excited to receive the @NIHDirector Pioneer award!! Lot’s of good science ahead!!
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Please go easy on us, Lee! 🤞🏻
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And we are delighted to welcome you @Michael_Wen_!!🤩
I’m back in Chicago after a lovely 10 week rotation @MBLScience and I am delighted to announce that I will be joining @Lab_VPrince and @GillisLab for my graduate work on neural crest development and evolution in zebrafish and skate.
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Andrew Gillis retweeted
I’m back in Chicago after a lovely 10 week rotation @MBLScience and I am delighted to announce that I will be joining @Lab_VPrince and @GillisLab for my graduate work on neural crest development and evolution in zebrafish and skate.
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What a pleasure to highlight an exciting study on the evolution of neural crest skeletogenic potential by @JanStundl @BronnerLab @PerAhlberg1 and colleagues! Scales, scutes, and embryonic origins of the vertebrate dermal skeleton | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Congratulations @JanStundl @BronnerLab and to the whole team on this exciting new paper! 🤩
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Happy #mantismonday everyone! How many critters can you see in this video (not counting the students working away in the background...)? We're in the third and final week of our course. Stay tuned for a wrap-up on Friday!
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🚨Jailbreak🚨 These mischievous little littorina made a futile effort of escape from their tank this morning 🚔👮
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A bright orange lawn of colonial hydroid (Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus) covering the shell of a hermit crab 🤩 Thanks @BabonisLeslie for the ID!
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We discussed fungi this morning and then went on a fungal walk near Devil’s lane. A bit early in the year for fruiting bodies, but ample reminders that the wood wide web is never far beneath our feet… @MerlinSheldrake
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Not to be one sided about it…but this flounder is an absolutely stupendous find! – at Woods Hole, MA
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Our mystery eggs have hatched! We have twins! #MothersDay2023
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Let’s kick off week two of our course with a little acoel action. Happy Monday, everyone! @acoel_hofstenia
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Happy #earthday, everyone. Let's take good care of our planet - it is the only one we have!
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