Assistant Professor @UofTCellSysBiol - comparative genomics/ethology & evolutionary cell biology of sleep + adventures with @hilsawh
Toronto, ON
Joined March 2012
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Mass extinctions☄️☠️ have shaped life on Earth🌍🌏🌎, but which species survive these events? In our new paper (@schierlab @annika_nichols_ @WSalzburger), we find that being active during the night🌃🌕 might have conferred an advantage to vertebrates through mass extinctions
Frequent transitions from night-to-day activity after mass extinctions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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PhD and MSc application portal @eebtoronto opens tomorrow Nov 1! Check our outstanding faculty and research for open positions! Toronto is a great place to be eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr…
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📢 New Opportunity Alert❗
@CANSSIOntario Postdoctoral Fellowship in Genome Data Science.
This fellowship supports the work of an early-career investigator working in genomics and data science.
Support: up to $50K/year for 2 years
Apply by: Feb 3, 2025
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The ROM is hiring a Fishes collection technician (2 year contract)!
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Check out how spinal cord #celltype diversity exponentially scales up with the #swimtolimb transformation during frog metamorphosis. And, for those of you #evodevoneuro lovers, we also find striking conservation in motor and inhibitory neuron types between amphibians 🐸 and mammals 🐭. All in our new preprint:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The Dept. of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto is looking for a plant single cell biologist! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto…
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Very honored and a great painting of happy cichlid fishes!
This happens when a 4 year old girl is listening to an awesome plenary by @WSalzburger @UniHohenheim @ZoolSocietyGer @dzgevol
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📢 The Layton Lab @UTMBiology and @eebtoronto is recruiting new students for 2025! Please see the ad below and reach out to hear more about our work and research culture 🐚🧬🤿
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Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biology/ful…
This is on Youtube, and is more fantastic than I could have imagined youtube.com/watch?v=CEJAF7P1…
Amazing work - conversion of males to mouthbrooders!!
Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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We have extended the early-bird registration date and abstract submission! Not too late to register and join us in what promises to be a very interesting meeting in Montreal on Oct 3-4! Stem cells, development, and cancer event.fourwaves.com/scdc2024…
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Mass extinctions☄️☠️ have shaped life on Earth🌍🌏🌎, but which species survive these events? In our new paper (@schierlab @annika_nichols_ @WSalzburger), we find that being active during the night🌃🌕 might have conferred an advantage to vertebrates through mass extinctions
Frequent transitions from night-to-day activity after mass extinctions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Do fish sleep? Yes! (they also yawn) - Our work on the genetics of widespread temporal niche partitioning in cichlids: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Last week, after months of hard work and lots of conversations, @ScienceMagazine launched a new series—spearheaded by @NewsfromScience's @elizculotta, @scchak and me—about how researchers are #decolonizing science.
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Super proud of undergrad David Carter for winning the poster prize at the @UofTDSI SUDS showcase for his work identifying the activity patterns of insects!!
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I think this paper is a Denial Of Peer Review Attack (DOPRA). It's kind of like a DoS (denial of service) attack. There is so much data, so many methods, so much code, so many figures, so many panels, so much supplement, so much text, that it is overwhelming. 18/
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I'm hiring! Looking for a technician to segment/curate/deposit CT scan data for fossil and living cichlids. Part of @NSF-funded project w/ @umich team of @HLopezFernandez in @UMichEEB + me in @UMichPaleo & @michiganearth. Please share widely! Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail…
ALT Photo of fossil cichlid specimen.