Todd Oakley at UCSB studies the evolutionary origins of complexity - esp visual systems and bioluminescence in invertebrates. mastodon: @ostratodd@ecoevo.social
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One of my favorite things about studying these amazing creatures is telling the world about them. This article goes a long way toward capturing the wonder and awe! science.org/content/article/…
I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenotypes from their gene sequences academic.oup.com/gigascience…...
I think the link was not quite right for the paper:
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Invertebrates have far less data, so those opsins are not as well predicted. But we are working on adding data from physiology, like MSP (microspectrophotometry) and ERG (electroretinograms) that we can link with specific opsin genes
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Excited to co-organize this @APSphysics MM session with @maziyarj & invited speakers @ShengqiangCai + @UCSB_OakleyLab ⚡️
… to explore how light shapes life and how life creates & uses light to sustain itself!
If this sounds like your research, submit your abstract & join us!
With @oritpeleg we are organising an @ApsDbio focus session “On Light & Life”
from energy capture and light production to bio-inspired metamaterial design and more.
Submission deadline is Oct 25
Please help us spread the word and join us in California next March :)
Congratulations to @LisaMesrop and other co-authors on a new publication in @OfficialSMBE ! We explore how ancient secretory pathways contributed to the evolution of bioluminescence in ostracods. LINK: tinyurl.com/ostracodbcn #Bioluminescence #Evolution
This supports what we call the "legacy-plus-innovation" model, where new evolutionary innovations merge with older, conserved pathways. Bioluminescence is not just a light show—in part it uses an ancient evolutionary toolbox used for survival and communication
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New preprint with @UCSB_OakleyLab @niko_hensley @JeroDelr et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!
Functional characterization of luciferase in a brittle star indicates parallel evolution influenced by genomic availability of ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new preprint addressing these questions in collaboration with @RokasLab, @HittingerLab, and @mwpen (link at the end)
MS student Seth is a little worried his poster is out in a dark corner #SMBE2024 . If you are interested in using Machine Learning to link genotype and phenotype, head to the dark side! Also preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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"Instead of measuring the number of papers and the impact factor of the journals in which they are published, scientists should be judged on the basis of data sharing, transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, mentorship, and communication." 1/3
#NextGenSci asked: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.
Here's how you answered: scim.ag/7z0
