Happy holidays to one and all ❄️! On the Friday before Christmas 🎄 I’m excited to share my first first-author pre-print. Are you interested in molluscs 🐚, developmental biology, CRISPR F0 KOs, Pax6, eye 👁️ development and evolution? Then here’s a thread for you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhDone ✅🐚✨

For today's quick sketches I got to draw sonic the hedgehog (which is a fabulous gene name)

CGEBM Aberdeen@cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I didn't manage to summarise all of @rorylcooper.bsky.social 's seminar today, but here we have sonic hedgehog inhibition pausing chicken embryo feather development at stage E9, and halting chicken embryo feather development at stage E11. Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.

First preprint from my PhD is out! If molluscan developmental biology and genetics, gene-editing methodology in non-traditional model systems, or the function and conservation of pax6 interests you, please give it a read! 🐚🎉

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Gene editing without a genome: generation and validation of F0 CRISPR mutants in gastropod mollusc Crepidula fornicata https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690768v1

Shucked stack of snails (say that five times fast)

Exposed for my frantic 6 hour day of microinjecting crepidula embryos at @mblscience.bsky.social with @vs-marine.bsky.social. Heavy amounts of Ed Sheeran in the lab that day (Unofficial Sleight Lab Work music)

Looking at this note my PI left on a waste bottle and thinking--what could it mean?

Jürgen is all of us entomologists 😂 still love this moment! #gbbo

I'll be at the #MalacologicalSocietyofLondon meeting this Wednesday! If anyone is interested CRISPR/cas9, snails, and cool microscopy, images, come listen to my talk and have a chat with me!

Hello all! Joining Blue sky to engage with the scientific community and to talk about #snails follow for updates on my research and science-related shenanigans!