@wormsrock

Evolutionary zoologist & quantitative geneticist @wormsrock.bsky.social

 NYU Arts & Sciences
rockmanlab.bio.nyu.edu
Joined September 2015
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I'm only posting in the blue site now, and I have codes if you'd like to join me there.
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Sevinç Ercan@ErcanLab20 Sep 2023
Hello 3D genome people! Did you know that C. elegans has a good looking cohesin but no CTCF? The newly graduated Dr. Jun Kim @JunKim51053763 decided to look at what cohesin does for the compact, 100 Mb worm genome, fitting ~20,000 genes: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Cohesin mediated loop extrusion from active enhancers form chromatin jets in C. elegans

In mammals, cohesin and CTCF organize the 3D genome into topologically associated domains (TADs) to regulate communication between cis-regulatory elements. However, many organisms, including S....

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Biologists of Seattle! I live here for the next three months. Let’s go for a coffee or drink or hike so you can tell me about your research. I am also available to help with fieldwork or worm picking. (Also, I'm mostly at bluesky now.)
orca card #BusLife

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Flooded city park (Carkeek) due to beaver activity

ALT Flooded city park (Carkeek) due to beaver activity

View of Mt. Rainier from University of Washington campus

ALT View of Mt. Rainier from University of Washington campus

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I am honored and excited to be joining the Department of Biology at NYU this fall. We will be studying the role of RNA metabolism in development and disease. Grateful to @zamore_lab and @yamashitaflylab for advice and support. Looking for postdocs. gainetdinovlab.org/

Gainetdinov Lab at NYU Biology

Gainetdinov Lab at NYU Biology, RNA metabolism in development and disease

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RENCI at UNC Chapel Hill has an opening for a Research Scientist with expertise in integrating knowledge graphs and machine learning, and an interest in neurosymbolic methods. Here's the job posting: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings… Please share!
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New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨 Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly. (RTs appreciated) indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…
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Erik Andersen@ecandersen8 Aug 2023
I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to Johns Hopkins University in @HopkinsBio and @HopkinsCMDB grad program this fall! We are hiring at all levels, including grad students, technicians, postdocs, programmers, and staff scientists. Please DM me if you are interested!
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A reminder to submit your symposium proposal for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, to be held in Montreal in July 2024. @sse_evolution @systbiol @ASNAmNat @eseb_org #Evol2024 (1/3)
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Tom Parée@PareeTom25 Jul 2023
Preprint of the first chapter of my thesis out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The tenth "Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes" meeting will be held on June 17-20, 2024 at the Vienna BioCenter! #evoworm2024 oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-eve…
An EvoWorm2024 flyer with an image of a nematode and fungi.

ALT An EvoWorm2024 flyer with an image of a nematode and fungi.

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Sorry to miss #Worm23 but we’ve made our own worm meeting at #Evol23 Worms 🤝 Evolution Better together
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Come hear about this work tomorrow at the Evolution meetings, #evol23! Friday, 2:45, room 130 (mutation session)
Matt Rockman@wormsrock12 May 2020
Who likes good news? We've received a notice of award for an NIEHS R21 to study how nematodes adapt to chronic radiation at Chernobyl. Excited to get to work with Sophie Tintori (pictured worm collecting in the red forest) to figure this stuff out.
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HOLY FARK!! FIRST IN SITU OBSERVATION OF SEA DAISIES! aka XYLOPLAX!!!
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🚨Preprint! Sex ratio is under strong selection. With random mating, frequency dependence leads to a 50:50 ratio, but in patchy populations, female bias evolves. You might think that this is a solved problem, thanks to decades of theory starting with Hamilton. You’d be wrong! 🧵
bioRxiv@biorxivpreprint15 Jun 2023
Sexual antagonism evolves when autosomes influence offspring sex ratio biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Sol’s model was motivated by the real biology of Caenorhabditis becei, which lives in habitat patches (fallen fruit) on BCI, Panama, and has female-biased sex ratios achieved through superior competitive ability of X-bearing sperm. We suspect pat-effect sex ratios are common.
Photo: A bunch of rotting Spondias mombin fruit on the forest floor at Barro Colorado Island. Each fruit is an ephemeral habitat patch for Caenorhabditis nematodes.

ALT Photo: A bunch of rotting Spondias mombin fruit on the forest floor at Barro Colorado Island. Each fruit is an ephemeral habitat patch for Caenorhabditis nematodes.

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Read the paper, tell us what you think, and come hear more at the Evolution meetings @Evol_mtg in Albuquerque: Saturday, June 24, 12pm. Evolutionary Ecology IV, room Mesilla 235. #Evol23
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