How eye-less corals see the light | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Delighted to share the latest Version of Record of our paper identifying chloride couterion in coral opsins! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Visible light-sensitive versions of human OPN5 published in FEBS letters! doi.org/10.1002/1873...

Development of visible light-sensitive human OPN5 via single amino acid substitution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654910v1

A latest study has been published online in Zoological Science. We examine detailed G protein selectivity and second messenger signalling of unique Gq-coupled coral opsins and compare them with a representative Gq-coupled opsin, jumping spider Rh1, and Gq-DREADD, hM3Dq. doi.org/10.2108/zs24...

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#coral #biology #cilia @ERC_Research #hfsp https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.06.636794v1

Our latest preprint about spectroscopic properties of unique #coral #opsins has been uploaded on bioRxiv. Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning| www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...