Post doc in the Harris lab. Genes, bones, and fishes. Harvard Medical School // Museum of Comparative Zoology // Boston Children's Hospital. he/him/his.

Boston, MA
Joined May 2009
Can a fin (still) become a limb? To find out, @fishyskeleton, @khenke2012, and I performed genetic studies in the zebrafish & found the remarkable hidden ability of fins to become more limb-like. Look below for a quick summary of our findings! authors.elsevier.com/c/1cX5d…
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お魚のポストからフォローしてくださった方へ改めてご挨拶を。 刺繍作家のAmiと申します。 刺繍ミシンで生き物をモチーフに、インテリア用のアートピースなどを制作しています。 いい作品があればいいねを押して下さると制作のモチベにつながります🙇‍♀️ ▶︎EVENT デザインフェスタ62 11/15-16
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Some personal news...
The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist & science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: nasonline.org/news/neil-h-sh…
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Looking forward to #2025SDB #2025ICDB this week! I'll be presenting on my mammal tail research during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday @ 9:40AM!
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Some B-roll from Eliza Barkan’s new preprint out of the Trapnell Lab. I think it will be a fin-tastic resource for the zebrafish community, especially for those trying to get a handle on the signaling pathways involved in specific cell types. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The sclerotome is the source of the dorsal and anal fin skeleton and its expansion is required for median fin development Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Raisa Bailon-Zambrano, James Nichols @NicholsLab and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev.203025
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This a special one for us, I found this weird mutant without a dorsal fin close to 15 years ago while a postdoc with Chuck Kimmel @uoregon Ultra talented @BailonRaisa uncovered a complete story as my first PhD student. Back burner projects can pay off. journals.biologists.com/dev/…
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Using an embryo-model to study Hoxb13 regulation and its impact on tail growth. Now @PNASNews 🙏Lucille, Joska, Celia, Hocine et al👍@EPFL @UNIGEnews @cdf1530 @the_Node #InHoxWeTrust pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
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Holy cow! A beautiful phenotype matched with excellent analysis! Congratulations @TanakaY_evodevo and all the authors. Zebrafish fins can be elaborated across multiple axes to produce new skeletal patterns
Our new paper about the fin evolution in teleosts is finally out. Fin elaboration via anterior-posterior constraint by hhip on Hedgehog signaling in teleosts journals.biologists.com/dev/…
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Plasticity in the pectoral fin skeleton is induced by altered foraging regime in a South American cichlid biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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How can you make a zebrafish fin grow into a triangle instead of a fork?? Congratulations to Eric and @nicocump and the whole team! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We are looking for a bioinformatician @cdf1530 @CirbCdf in Paris to analyse genomic/epigenetic datasets🧬 in the context of a synergy @ERC_Research long term program. See below and apply😎 RT🙏
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When you can't decide which concurrent session to attend at Helsinki #EED2024 @AteneumMuseum
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.@Duboule even the cafeteria is excited for your seminar at #EED2024
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Latent ancestral developmental potential
Starring Frank Grillo, Werewolves will be unleashed in theaters December 6, 2024. "A supermoon event triggers a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who enters the moonlight into a werewolf for one night."
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"I would like to begin by thanking The Organizer"
Don’t miss this exceptional event: Self-Organization in Biology: 100 years of the Spemann-Mangold Experiment. Abstract submission deadline extended to May 17th. Slots for talks still open. Spread the word! #DevBio #CellDifferentiation #StemCells elsevier.com/events/conferen…
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The implied homology between cloaca and digits is intriguing 🤔
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I am super excited to see our work on #bioRxiv 🤩!! Special thanks to @Duboule and @chasebolt, it was a lot - of fun - working with you on 🦓🐟🐭 regulatory evolution.
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