🧪Discovery of calcarins in @elife.bsky.social, a protein family in the sponge Sycon ciliatum, clarifies spicule formation and suggests parallel evolution of carbonate biomineralization in sponges & corals—key for animals as ecosystem engineers of reefs. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #molpalmuc

🧪 Unravelling sponge evolution: we used Clade-Specific Elements to probe 199 Haplosclerida specimens (22/28 genera, 105 types, 42 holotypes) spanning 200+ years of collections — incl. treasures from the legendary HMS Challenger Expedition. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #molpalmuc out of @SPP_TaxonOmics

We just published our first paper in the Peer Community Journal - diamond open access, no APCs! Awesome experience, with less than a week from submission after receommendation by #pcigenomics. Highly recommended! #molpalmuc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social

A recommendation of the preprint "Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs of animals" by Warren Francis, Sergio Vargas, and Gert Wörheide: tinyurl.com/y82japny

New contribution in @elife.bsky.social: Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #molpalmuc

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

New preprint version of "rRNA depletion for holobiont metatranscriptome profiling across demosponges" Project lead and pushed through by Sergio #molpalmuc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

in case you are into sponge research and paleobiodiversity, checkout our latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪 🧬 New preprint alert: The largest molecular biodiversity study of sponges to date across the Indo-Pacific (>1900 samples) reveals high levels of regional demosponge endemism. A long time in the making, w/ many lovely international collaborators 😀 doi.org/10.1101/2024... @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Revised version of our preprint «Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs» published - enjoy 😀 🧪 #molpalmuc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

the foundation of biodiversity research - natural history collections #biodiversity

Open position in my lab at LMU München – please distribute widely to potential applicants. Application deadline 30 November 2024. #molpalmuc #lmumunich

Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... great collab with Warren Francis and @sevragorgia.bsky.social #molpalmuc

📣 Excited to share our new Editorial led by James Reimer and @reefgenomics.bsky.social! "The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?" Open access: shorturl.at/BCYU9 @icrs.bsky.social @daviesswphd.bsky.social @markeakin.bsky.social @gwoerhe.bsky.social and many others 🦑🧪

Beauty in the beast – Placozoan biodiversity explored through molluscan predator genomics new paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... associated press release www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Molecular and mineral responses of corals grown under artificial Calcite Sea conditions New paper out in Geobiology doi.org/10.1111/gbi....

Did neurons evolve twice? Our work on the ctenophore syncytial nerve net & the beautiful work from Darrin Schultz, Sebas Najle, Arnau Sebe-Pedros & many others covered in Scientific American. With comments from Detlev Arendt, Max Telford & Leslie Babonis. www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...

Just out (Open access), comprehensive review on CoTS: "The crown-of-thorns seastar species complex: knowledge on the biology and ecology of five corallivorous Acanthaster species", great collaboration, spearheaded by Sven Uthicke.