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)

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! 🐚🎉

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!