PhD in Evo-Neuro 👩🔬🇨🇭🇫🇷| Cnidarian enthusiast Studying behaviour of (weird) brainless animals 🌊🧬🧪🔬🧠⁉️
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Joined January 2022
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My first paper is out 🥳
Can you learn without a brain?
Turns out - YES!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220685…
@simon_sprecher @martinezserrap1
Now switching to holiday mode🎄🏙️and heading to NYC after #cellbio2023, the head full exciting science 🤯!
Many thanks to @Musser_CellEvo and @PhysPlanaria for organising this last session , and @LS2Switzerland and @scnatCH for giving me this fantastic opportunity! teapaw.org/GaelleBotAm/status/173…
So excited to be attending #cellbio2023 !!!
Want to discuss how cool are brainless animals?
Come check out my poster and see my talk!
📌Poster P1389 - Sunday, Dec3, 12:15-14:45pm
🗣️Talk - Wednesday, Dec 6, 9:25am
Talking to Alexandra about learning in brainless animals for @franceculture was a super fun experience! Thanks again for asking me!
Aujourd'hui au menu : les méduses
Ont-elles un cerveau ? Sont-elles capables de mouvements ? Ont-elles des capacités cognitives ?
les réponses à ces questions que vous ne vous posiez pas en vous levant ce matin 👇🪼🧠
avec @GaelleBotAm
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#AvecSciences
Operant conditioning in box jellyfish - cnidarian behavior is definitely less "simple" than we may think 😄
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Very happy to have finally defended my PhD a few weeks ago at @unifr ! A special thank you to my supervisor @simon_sprecher for his guidance along the way 🪼🔬🧬, and to all my friends and colleagues for this joyful ending 🥳🥳🥳
Very happy 🥳🥳🥳 to be part of this collaborative work with Matt Goulty, Ezio Rosato, @simon_sprecher and @RobertoFeuda
We found that most of the genes involved in monoamine production, modulation, and reception originated in bilaterians…
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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There are still are 5 days to apply for a PhD in my lab to work on the evolution of the monoaminergic system findaphd.com/phds/project/th… please apply and RT
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From the most fabulous @z_okray, Pedro Jacob, @_Nils_Otto_ et al.
They fleas dae braw things wi thir wee heids.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Every time I hear about Mangold & Spemann I am reminded of the forgotten contribution of Ethel Browne 15 years before them. See: DOI: 10.2307/1542490. Original paper: Browne, E. 1909. The production of new hydranths in hydra by the insertion of small grafts. J. Exp. Zoo/. 7: l-37
A great event is coming up: the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mangold & Spemann experiment. Stay tuned for the news here.
'Spemann-Mangold at 100: An interview with Eddy De Robertis sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our Nematostella picture made the cover of PNAS!
credit to @GaelleBotAm
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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In this issue: How red flour beetles recycle water in their rectums, how whale sharks may have adapted to deep-sea diving, and associative learning in starlet sea anemonies. ow.ly/H9KJ50NugJq
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Brainless learning: According to a study, sea anemones can learn & remember an association between light and electric shocks. The evolution of associative learning may predate the emergence of centralized nervous systems, according to the authors. In PNAS: ow.ly/nVRe50No7kB
ALT Experimental setup for aversive classical conditioning experiments.
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Thus, already animals that did not yet evolve a brain, but contain a net-like nervous system are able to learn.
An exciting project with @GaelleBotAm and @martinezserrap1
@DeepLabCut meets Cnidarians!
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Exciting finding: Associative learning in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22… @PNASNews
My first paper is out 🥳
Can you learn without a brain?
Turns out - YES!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220685…
@simon_sprecher @martinezserrap1
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A chemical regularly used to image cells can dramatically alter the way cellular compartments called condensates look under the microscope. elifesciences.org/articles/8…
ALT Liquid-liquid phase separation of some proteins in yellow in a live mammalian cell (left) can look very different upon paraformaldehyde fixation (right). Protein after fixation are separated and look granular, rather than a smooth yellow background
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Very pleased to see this paper published, which describes and interprets a very weird and wacky fossil as an early medusozoan cnidarian. A tour de force in dealing with a difficult and headache inducing fossil by
@nwnuzy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Our Advanced Marine Biology course @unifrBiology - #PiVR meets #deepLabCut meets marine invertebrates! A group of fantastic students doing quantitative behavior analysis - from the field to the lab @GaelleBotAm @Neuro_komarov @DerPaule2009
