Chris deserves this award. Congratulations!!

🌟We are excited to announce the non-bilaterian satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🪼🪸 #pasedb #evodevo
Organizers: Drs. Athula Wikarmanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke.bsky.social

Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

🌟Happy to announce the Spiralia satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🐌🪱#PASEDB2025 #pasedb #evodevo
Organizers: Drs. Carrie Albertin & Christina Zakas

Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

🌟Happy to announce the Evo-Devo on Fish satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🐟🐠
@nakamuralab.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social
Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

Our next meeting at Miami will have four satellite symposia: Spiralia, Arthropods, Fishes, and Non-bilaterian EvoDevo on July 22. Invited and selected talks from abstracts. Apply from here evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

Come to Miami this summer! We have a fish satellite symposium on 7/22. The invited speakers will be announced very soon.

🌟We are excited to announce our awardees within the next few days ! Stay tuned!🥳

Remember to register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

@fishevodevogeno.bsky.social gives a massage to gar fish I believe

Our the most wonderful time of the year! Gar embryos came from @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social

Woke up with percentile 5 for an NIH proposal. I deserve a bottle of wine tonight.

A fish specialist position in Nakamura lab is still open. Great opportunity to learn fish husbandry, genetics, and evodevo with zebrafish, skates, and some other unique fish. Thanks RT!!

Actinotrichia-independent developmental mechanisms of spiny rays facilitate the morphological diversification of Acanthomorpha fish fins Skeletal forms in vertebrates have been regarded as good models of morphological diversification. Fish fin forms are greatly diversified, and their bone structure is classified into soft rays and spin...

We read this paper that analyzed spiny ray development in acanthomorpha in a lab meeting. The ontogenetic processes are a bit different between spines and rays ! Great study by Miyamoto et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdocs going on the academic job market, check out the Society for Developmental Biology's fantastic course www.sdbonline.org/gethired, suitable for all molecular/cellular basic scientists. Applications due March 21. I am excited to announce that I will be co-directing.

This is a fabulous course for anyone planning to go on the academic job market.

Started from ontogenetic and molecular studies of living lineages, authors found reciprocally cavitated joints in placoderms. Placoderms can move pectoral fins very smoothly!! Congrats @neelimasharma.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social Yara Haridy! #Teamfish #evodevo

Scientists do science not politics. The situation is very concerning and massive thread to basic science. But please do remember - we are scientists and change the world using the power of science. That’s our heart. Focus on your science whatever happens. We won’t be distracted.

Single-cell profiling of penta- and tetradactyl mouse limb buds identifies mesenchymal progenitors controlling digit numbers and identities - Nature Communications The initial cellular alterations underlying changes in digit numbers and identities were unknown. Here, Palacio et al. identify two limb bud progenitor populations that are impacted in an opposing man...

Today, our lab read www.nature.com/articles/s41... from @devegenaimeezuniga.bsky.social showing two distinct cell populations determine the number and identity of digits. We found two genetic modules generate skate and shark fin diversity a while ago. Very intriguing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Intersting question! In my reading list.

Bone metabolism and evolutionary origin of osteocytes: Novel application of FIB-SEM tomography New applications of imaging technology reveal that 425 million–year–old fossil bone cells had modern mineral metabolism abilities.

Very high resolution study of osteocytes in ancient fishes! Such intricate osteocytes network and low mineralized regions we can see!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

zebrafish pigment cells

New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Submit your evodevo paper to JEZ-B! Happy to answer any questions!

Evolution 2025 Registration Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24.

@sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025

www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

As Elaina is successfully moving to a master school of E&E this spring, we are looking for a fish specialist/lab tech. If you are interested in this position, contact me. Thank you for spreading the word!! nakamuralab.com @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social
#Teamfish #evodevo

New preprint from the lab on #coral larval light responses, including ciliary arrests and body-wide contractions.

Led by Emelie Brodrick, in collaboration with @micromotility.bsky.social

#biology #cilia @ERC_Research
#hfsp www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02....

A real treat to have Ben Shih-Lei Lai visiting us @cudevbio.bsky.social today!

Great talk on his lab's creative/fascinating work in cardiac regeneration using #zebrafish et al. 🐟❤️🧬

I know Japanese invent this thing

Scientific culture is denial. Don’t forget celebrating any opportunities like paper submission, positive data, finishing important presentation. Tonight I have an excuse for drinking wine.