Robert Kozol
@cavefish.bsky.social
He/him/his Assistant Professor, St. Johns University. Fish evolutionary neuroscientist, musician and professional husband/dad
Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
This looks super practical! Give it a peek, if finterested 😎
Philipp Niethammer@niethammerlab.bsky.social · yesterdayI just updated LCS turbo adding a compatible Connector app at Zenodo. The Connector connects logical or marker/scRNAseq clusters across different experiments/data sources into Cytoscape compatible enrichment networks. Hope it is useful - I count downloads as ❤️. zenodo.org/records/2064...
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
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We are really excited about this great opportunity for a Core leader in the Department of Biology at UVA. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Genomics and Multi-omics Senior Laboratory Research Specialist, Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Genomics and Multi-omics Senior Laboratory Research Specialist, Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virg...
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I did some fishing at the British Museum. A short, fishy thread (5 posts) This a vessel with the shape of a berbel, arguably Luciobarbus conocephalus, becauae the piece was produces in the Amu Darya (Oxus River) Some 2500 years old @sibic.bsky.social
Better late than never! Last month, we posted our preprint on single-cell RNA sequencing of the #zebrafish sox17 lineage — a collaboration among several labs including us, @stefanmaterna.bsky.social and @thelovelylab.bsky.social. A few key takeaways below: 1/3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Transcriptional divergence of the zebrafish sox17 lineage begins during gastrulation
The endoderm is specified at the onset of gastrulation and subsequently undergoes extensive migration before forming an epithelial sheet that gives rise to multiple organs, including the gut and respi...
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Our review paper on nerve nets has just been published!! @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 2w agoLooking for weekend reading? New review by @kei-jokura.bsky.social and @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy revisits nerve nets, their functional organization, and evolutionary implications link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How to use AI for your grapgical abstracts: - do not - dont even think about it - congrats now everyone thinks your paper is made up data and you plagiarised the results - lost all scientific credibility
from our cover: hunting strategy correlates with eye arrangement in spiders www.cell.com/current-biol...
Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders
Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...
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Excited to share my postdoc paper from the @lyons-lab.bsky.social Our question: what controls axon diameter? It varies >100-fold between neurons, shapes signal speed & myelination, and changes in disease. Yet very little is known about what regulates it. 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A high-resolution phenotypic screen identifies regulators of CNS axon diameter in zebrafish
Axon diameter is important for action potential conduction speed, but what molecular pathways influence this neuronal property? This study reports a high-resolution imaging-based chemical screening pi...
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Looks fintastic, for those keen! #ZebrafishMeeting #killifish
MDI Biological Laboratory@mdibl.org · 3w agoRegistration now open! 2026 African Turquoise Killifish Conference, October 1–3 A 3-day #conference aimed to serve as a hub for all those dedicated and interested in #killifish, and to provide an opportunity for researchers of different fields to collaborate and network. https://ow.ly/bvYe50Zl4jN
Celestial Pearl Danios (Danio margaritatus ) flexing. The female is in the foreground. She has a noticeably larger belly and slightly more dull coloration. #fish #fishtank #aquariumfish #aquarium #aquariumtank #shrimp #shrimptank #aquatics #aquascape
The Manul/Pallas' Cat is a wild felid of arid Asian highlands and has the densest and longest fur of all #cats A new study by Jiaqing Yuan &co finds that it belongs to a distinct lineage despite many traits shared with cats in genus Felis www.cell.com/current-biol... Image: tinyurl.com/yc6banxa
Lovely new work from Moens Lab, led by @austinseroka1.bsky.social 🐟 @cbmoens.bsky.social 🔗 to preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Distinct transcriptional programs define cranial motor neuron subtypes during vertebrate development
Closely related neurons that share core differentiation programs can be difficult to distinguish by gene expression, even when they differ in connectivity and function. Cranial motor neurons (cMNs) ex...
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Austin Seroka@austinseroka1.bsky.social · last mo.We're excited to present a single-cell atlas of vertebrate cranial motor neuron development, the first story from my postdoctoral work in the Moens lab, up now on bioRxiv!
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Laminin α5 and integrins α3 and α6 coordinately regulate collective cell migration in vivo | Development | The Company of Biologists
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@vlecaudey.bsky.social · last mo.New paper from the lab! We show that laminin α5 and two integrin receptors (α3, α6) team up to guide a group of cells moving together inside a living embryo (doi.org/10.1242/dev....) Congrats Anna & Nicola. Thanks to @chaitanyadingare.bsky.social and all authors, and to @dev-journal.bsky.social.
We're excited to present a single-cell atlas of vertebrate cranial motor neuron development, the first story from my postdoctoral work in the Moens lab, up now on bioRxiv!
Fintastic pigmentation and illustration 😍
Taylor Black@taylorblack.bsky.social · last mo.For this #sundayfishsketch I have a darter species that I can’t stop talking about- the Caney Fork Darter (Nothonotus starnesi). The male fish develop bright red spots and emerald green color in the spawning season, AND have parental care! What a fish. #SciComm #illustration #fish #SciArt
I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.
Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits
Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · last mo.Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Note to self: Start fish-specific preprint server and call it OnlyFins 🐟
Philipp Niethammer@niethammerlab.bsky.social · last mo.Can somebody implement a bot-safe preprint server pls? I'd love to submit our preprints somewhere safe from gold-digging AI venture capitalists that, while pretending to do us a service, end up milking the scientifc community as usual.
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Lamprey 3D single-cell transcriptomics reveals ancestral and specialized features of the vertebrate brain
The lamprey occupies a pivotal position for elucidating vertebrate brain evolution. Using spatial transcriptomics and single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we generated a three-dimensional molecular atlas of...
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An interesting #devbio weekend read, and the first manuscript I've ever handled with audio files that really take you back in time.
Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · last mo.Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!
I’m very excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron! 🎉
Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · last mo.Fintastic opportunity to dive into #cichlid research 🐠 🔗: dcg-online.de/der-dcg-foer...
Kevin Stevens@neohibolites.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe German Cichlid Association is again awarding its grant of up to 2500€ for cichlid research or conservation projects. Available to anyone internationally (no need for a membership). 🐟🧪
New paper out: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Congratulations to our former PhD student @maxcapelle.bsky.social whose work reveals that the switch in light preference across zebrafish development is driven by a reweighting of three parallel visual processing pathways. Check out a short summary below!
Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · last yr.We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇
Very cool work from @bahllab.bsky.social 🤩 Working link: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · last mo.New paper out: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Congratulations to our former PhD student @maxcapelle.bsky.social whose work reveals that the switch in light preference across zebrafish development is driven by a reweighting of three parallel visual processing pathways. Check out a short summary below!
Cool new tool from Keir Balla Lab @czbiohub.bsky.social 🐟🧬 Give it a try: portal.rnaquarium.org
RNAquarium Portal
Explore, visualize, and interact with RNAquarium project data.
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bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo agoRNAquarium: an archive-scale atlas of zebrafish gene expression coupled with pan-taxonomic profiling reveals diverse viral drivers of transcriptomic states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732950v1
Kara Cerveny@kara-cerveny.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe first fruits of my curiosity about what happens to vertebrate (zebrafish) brains in the face of blindness. Many thanks to the village of scientists who contributed! Now looking forward to what colleagues and reviewers have to say www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
The first fruits of my curiosity about what happens to vertebrate (zebrafish) brains in the face of blindness. Many thanks to the village of scientists who contributed! Now looking forward to what colleagues and reviewers have to say www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
Optic nerve innervation promotes Wnt/β-catenin pathway activity and progenitor cell proliferation in the zebrafish optic tectum
In the zebrafish visual system, accurate retinotopic mapping occurs throughout life as new neurons are generated and integrated into existing circuitry in both the retina and optic tectum (OT). To exp...
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