🦋 The Blueprint of Life PhD Deadline is February 27th 🦋 Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... 📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

🦋 WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR OUR PHD PROGRAM IN EVOLUTIONARY & DEVELOPMENTAL GENOMICS!!! Application closes on February 27th! Check out one of our beloved PhD students, Samuele Broccardo. He describes his work in the video below! 🦋 evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS! Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... 📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS! Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... 📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

In today’s busy and fast-paced world, Dr. Guillermo N. Armaiz-Pena is a researcher you want to pay attention to! Just yesterday we got to hear his insightful talk about the link between biopsychosocial factors e.g. anxiety, stress, loneliness, depression and their effects on cancer progression.

Check our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social about the unique sex determination system in Nautilus ➡️ XX/XY chromosomes unlike other cephalopods (ZZ/Z0). with @reef-combo.bsky.social and @anariesgo.bsky.social et al., and led by Hector Torrado. Get it: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbs~_LsQS...

Last week we listened to Dr. Brenda Santiago’s talk exploring how calcium signaling shapes vertebrate development. Using zebrafish and single-cell sequencing, her research maps Ca2+ dependent genes that can give insight into human related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, autism and kidney disease.

The Papa lab on the hunt in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico!

Meet Camila Sánchez! A postbac in Riccardo Papa’s lab studying wing development in 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 butterflies. Using FISH technique, she tracks where and when genes like Wnt3 are expressed—mapping the pathways that shape wing color patterns.