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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 9d

Great to see this in print. Amazing work!

Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 14d

Go back and watch some Luis Suarez highlights

Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Aug 29

Beautiful atlas of fish gill development from the Lecaudey lab. There are few structures more amazing in biology than gills!

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A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture

Gills are essential for fish respiration and have a highly specialized cellular architecture enabling efficient gas exchange. Surprisingly, the developmental processes underlying gill formation in zeb...

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Amazing study!

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tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social · Aug 27

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature

The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wonderful to have my second ever grad student stop by the lab today. Elizabeth Zuniga. She is now faculty working on eye development at Baylor College of Medicine. Such joy to see your former trainees doing so well.

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · May 21

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Apr 25

Wait what?!

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 31

Library of Congress yesterday. It’s impressive inside.

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 31

How about this?

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 29

She will be a fantastic faculty hire for whoever can snag her

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 24

I still use mine several days a week to make panini sandwiches

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 22

You just made my day John. Thanks so much for the kind comments.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Mar 20

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fish gills and human ears share the same genetic blueprint

Evolutionarily conserved molecular program used to form gills and ears.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Mar 7

Wonderful backstory of this gem by @mathithiru.bsky.social & @crumplab.bsky.social from earlier this year...
🔗 to original research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 to the Node article: thenode.biologists.com/fish-frogs-f...

the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Mar 7

Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears. 🐟🐸🐁🦎

Read this 'Behind the paper' story from @mathithiru.bsky.social about her PhD work with @crumplab.bsky.social:
thenode.biologists.com/fish-frogs-f...

#DevBio #EvoDevo

Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears. - the Node

Humans and other tetrapods evolved from aquatic fish. In making this leap, tetrapods evolved lungs to breathe air and lost respiratory gills. It is

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Mar 6

I've been told the decision to cancel special emphasis panels has not been finalized yet but is definitely being considered.

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Feb 28

Worthy event to support the engine of innovation in our country.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Feb 26

When did the lubricated joints that allow our skeleton to swivel, rotate and bend evolve? @crumplab.bsky.social explores a new @plosbiology.org paper by @neelimasharma.bsky.social &co that pinpoints their origin to the earliest jawed vertebrates 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La Primer: plos.io/4kkhXa6

Left: A phylogeny of chordates, flanked by images of a lamprey, a placoderm, a brown shark, a longnose gar and a hawksbill turtle. Agnathans such as lampreys lack synovial joints. The first putative evidence of synovial joints in the fossil record is in early gnathostomes such as the antiarch placoderm fish that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. Modern gnathostomes such as cartilaginous fishes (i.e., chondrichthyans such as the brown shark), bony fishes (i.e., osteichthyans such as the longnose gar), and limbed vertebrates (i.e., tetrapods such as the Hawksbill turtle) possess synovial joints in their jaws, fins/limbs, and other locations. All images used are freely available without copyright restrictions. Top right: a typical agnathan joint is shown where glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are uniformly distributed across the cartilages (blue) that are connected by fibrous tissue (olive). Bottom right: a typical gnathostome synovial joint is shown where surface cartilage has a unique proteoglycan composition from the underlying cartilage and bone, and a fluid-filled cavity separates adjacent skeletal elements.

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hang in there Shawn. I feel so bad for everyone at NIH right now.

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Feb 19

I heard SBDD was just cancelled/postponed

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Feb 11

Would be great if Utah joined in. Preventing childhood diseases, fighting cancer, preserving jobs seem like things all states should agree on.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Feb 9

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Feb 3

That without an understanding of developmental biology, there would be no stem cell research or regenerative medicine.

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 1

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise

https://go.nature.com/4hDJnFM

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

Nature - Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.

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