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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · May 6

Chris deserves this award. Congratulations!!

EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · May 5

PASEDB 2025 Service Award:
Chris Amemiya
University of California-Merced, USA. School of Natural Sciences.

For significant contributions to the evo-devo community and PASEDB organization

Do you want to learn more: amemiyalab.com

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · May 3

🌟We are excited to announce the non-bilaterian satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🪼🪸 #pasedb #evodevo
Organizers: Drs. Athula Wikarmanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke.bsky.social

Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · May 1

🌟Happy to announce the Spiralia satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🐌🪱#PASEDB2025 #pasedb #evodevo
Organizers: Drs. Carrie Albertin & Christina Zakas

Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · Apr 29

🌟Happy to announce the Evo-Devo on Fish satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🐟🐠
@nakamuralab.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social
Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our next meeting at Miami will have four satellite symposia: Spiralia, Arthropods, Fishes, and Non-bilaterian EvoDevo on July 22. Invited and selected talks from abstracts. Apply from here evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

The Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology - 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

evodevo.wildapricot.org

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Come to Miami this summer! We have a fish satellite symposium on 7/22. The invited speakers will be announced very soon.

EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · Apr 18

🌟Registration is open! 🌟
evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · Apr 28

🌟We are excited to announce our awardees within the next few days ! Stay tuned!🥳

Remember to register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Apr 16

@fishevodevogeno.bsky.social gives a massage to gar fish I believe

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our the most wonderful time of the year! Gar embryos came from @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Apr 9

Woke up with percentile 5 for an NIH proposal. I deserve a bottle of wine tonight.

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Mar 19

A fish specialist position in Nakamura lab is still open. Great opportunity to learn fish husbandry, genetics, and evodevo with zebrafish, skates, and some other unique fish. Thanks RT!!

Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 10

As Elaina is successfully moving to a master school of E&E this spring, we are looking for a fish specialist/lab tech. If you are interested in this position, contact me. Thank you for spreading the word!! nakamuralab.com @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social
#Teamfish #evodevo

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Mar 13

We read this paper that analyzed spiny ray development in acanthomorpha in a lab meeting. The ontogenetic processes are a bit different between spines and rays ! Great study by Miyamoto et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Actinotrichia-independent developmental mechanisms of spiny rays facilitate the morphological diversification of Acanthomorpha fish fins

Skeletal forms in vertebrates have been regarded as good models of morphological diversification. Fish fin forms are greatly diversified, and their bone structure is classified into soft rays and spin...

www.biorxiv.org

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Vicky Prince @vprincelab.bsky.social · Mar 6

Postdocs going on the academic job market, check out the Society for Developmental Biology's fantastic course www.sdbonline.org/gethired, suitable for all molecular/cellular basic scientists. Applications due March 21. I am excited to announce that I will be co-directing.

Society for Developmental Biology | GetHIRED!

www.sdbonline.org

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Vicky Prince @vprincelab.bsky.social · Feb 28

This is a fabulous course for anyone planning to go on the academic job market.

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Feb 26

#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 21 sdbonline.org/gethired

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Started from ontogenetic and molecular studies of living lineages, authors found reciprocally cavitated joints in placoderms. Placoderms can move pectoral fins very smoothly!! Congrats @neelimasharma.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social Yara Haridy! #Teamfish #evodevo

Neelima Sharma @neelimasharma.bsky.social · Feb 26

Super excited to share our @plosbiology.org paper with @neilshubin.bsky.social and Yara Haridy,

“Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish”

Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La

Primer by @crumplab.bsky.social: plos.io/4kkhXa6

I hope you enjoy reading it!

Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish

Synovial joints are characterized by lubricated articular surfaces separated by a cavity, providing mobility and load-bearing, but when did they evolve? This comparative and developmental study reveal...

plos.io

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Scientists do science not politics. The situation is very concerning and massive thread to basic science. But please do remember - we are scientists and change the world using the power of science. That’s our heart. Focus on your science whatever happens. We won’t be distracted.

Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Today, our lab read www.nature.com/articles/s41... from @devegenaimeezuniga.bsky.social showing two distinct cell populations determine the number and identity of digits. We found two genetic modules generate skate and shark fin diversity a while ago. Very intriguing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Single-cell profiling of penta- and tetradactyl mouse limb buds identifies mesenchymal progenitors controlling digit numbers and identities - Nature Communications

The initial cellular alterations underlying changes in digit numbers and identities were unknown. Here, Palacio et al. identify two limb bud progenitor populations that are impacted in an opposing man...

www.nature.com

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 20

Intersting question! In my reading list.

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 20

Very high resolution study of osteocytes in ancient fishes! Such intricate osteocytes network and low mineralized regions we can see!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bone metabolism and evolutionary origin of osteocytes: Novel application of FIB-SEM tomography

New applications of imaging technology reveal that 425 million–year–old fossil bone cells had modern mineral metabolism abilities.

www.science.org

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Parichy Lab | Dave Parichy @dparichy.bsky.social · Feb 18

New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Submit your evodevo paper to JEZ-B! Happy to answer any questions!

EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · Feb 18

The submission deadline of JEZ-B Latin America Evo-Devo issue has been extended to Mar 30, 2025! Submissions from Latin America are highly encouraged but not limited to. Any questions to @nakamuralab.bsky.social / EduardoZattara / AdrianaManzano. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution Call for Papers Latin America Evo-Devo 2.0

The Journal of Experimental Zoology – B (JEZ-B): Molecular and Developmental Evolution covers the structure & evolution of animal & non-animal organisms.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · Feb 10

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24.

@sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025

www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

Evolution 2025 Registration

Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

www.evolutionmeetings.org

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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · Feb 10

As Elaina is successfully moving to a master school of E&E this spring, we are looking for a fish specialist/lab tech. If you are interested in this position, contact me. Thank you for spreading the word!! nakamuralab.com @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social
#Teamfish #evodevo

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 7

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

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

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