by Milena Marinkovic | Jan 25, 2019 | Neuronal control of ciliary swimming, Cell types, Neural cell types and nervous tissues, people |
This post is dedicated to my visionary father who, when I announced that I will spend several years of my life studying an obscure marine worm, asked if I can make some glow-in-the-dark ones for fishing. adult female (left) and male (right) Platynereis larva The worm...
by Anna Ferraioli | Jan 25, 2019 | The life cycle of a jellyfishe from a cell-type perspective, Animal life cycles, people |
Clytia hemisphaerica is a hydrozoan of the Campanulariidae family. This species was chosen some years ago as a promising model for molecular and cellular studies in development and evolution thanks to its phylogenetic position, the ease of culturing all life cycle...
by Siri Kellner | Jan 21, 2019 | A concept for an online exhibition, people |
My name is Siri (yes it is!) and this is my first blog post as a EvoCELL PhD student at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. To be honest, I find it quite hard to find something smart to say about what I am doing right now. I’m one and a half months into my PhD and...
by Petra Kovacikova | Jan 21, 2019 | Off science, The evolutionary origin of the germline, people |
HELLO COLD WORLD!! I feel like this is as much of a big deal for me as the “young adult transition” portrayed in the Paramore song with the same name.. (And currently, it is indeed cold outside). I’m Petra and I’m glad you came across this blog. I’m a fresh PhD...
by Laura Piovani | Jan 5, 2019 | The evolution of the Lophotrochozoan larva, people |
The Lophotrochozoa, one of the three main branches of Bilateria, includes very diverse animals such as annelids, molluscs and flatworms. Despite their divergent adult forms, they have striking developmental similarities and a distinctive larva (the trochophore)....
by Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi | Nov 5, 2018 | The evolution of the forebrain, people |
Perhaps naive or foolish, but I would love to understand why nervous systems emerged in nature? What selection pressures drive the diversity in nervous system organization? How do such features facilitate animal behavior, physiology and ecology? Plus, the nervous...
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