Assistant Professor at @camzoology.bsky.social studying pigmentation and neural crest evolution in cichlids.
🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Callipterus Cichlid Collecting ShellALT: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shellstatic.klipy.comVery happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC CoG to build predictive and mechanistic models of pigment pattern development and evolution across cichlids!! 🐠🎨 I've been dreaming about this for a long time, and I’m incredibly excited that we can now pursue it in full. #ERCCoG @erc.europa.eu 1/3
New preprint led by the brilliant @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on cichlid brain diversification, fgf8a signalling and regulatory divergence with TEs on the mix! All part of a wonderful collaboration with @ebablab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @camzoology.bsky.social
Very proud of this extremely collaborative piece: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Here, we show that divergence in visual systems - in response to differences in the light environment - leads to rapid divergence in sexually selected colour traits. Work brilliantly led by Madeleine Carruthers. 🐟👀🎨
Rapid Divergence of Visual Systems and Signaling Traits to Contrasting Light Regimes During Early Speciation of African Crater Lake Cichlid FishAbstract. Sensory adaptation is widely hypothesized to drive ecological speciation, yet empirical evidence from natural populations undergoing early stageacademic.oup.comUnfortunately I cannot be at #ESEB2025, one of my favourite conferences, but the lab is well represented with @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social presenting her work today on S29 @3.45pm on Transposable elements and nervous and sensory system diversification in cichlid fishes. @eseb2025.bsky.social
Today @englishse.bsky.social will be at #ESEB2025 discussing the challenges and opportunities for flexible and inclusive working patterns in academia💪🏼Join in the discussion on S11 Room 122+123 @ 2.30pm! @eseb2025.bsky.social
Sinead EnglishTo be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Check the beautiful microscopy work at @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social with a very special cichlid fish contribution from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/stories/camb... Check it out!!
Taking a closer look at lifeIncredible images created by our scientists using advanced microscopes are helping to drive biological discoverywww.cam.ac.ukHi all, I am reposting this, as it is Christmas and we will only be closing the fundraising page in late January. If you can help click on the link below! Asante sana!
Emília SantosWe are fundraising for the Kisiba Secondary School, which is located next to the iconic crater Lake Kisiba (also known as Masoko), home to a cichlid species used in speciation genomics and evo-devo research. If you can help click on the link below gofund.me/0c1bda3d
We are fundraising for the Kisiba Secondary School, which is located next to the iconic crater Lake Kisiba (also known as Masoko), home to a cichlid species used in speciation genomics and evo-devo research. If you can help click on the link below gofund.me/0c1bda3d
Donate to Improving the bathrooms at Kisiba Secondary School, organized by Emilia SantosHi, my name is Emília and I am fundraising to help improve the boy's … Emilia Santos needs your support for Improving the bathrooms at Kisiba Secondary Schoolgofund.me