Do you know an outstanding aquarist?
We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3
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We're looking for candidates with cephalopod care experience, but will consider any exceptional aquarists, hatchery managers, aquaculture specialists & aquatic animal husbandry experts.
Salary: $80-90k
If someone comes to mind, please share this link! 🐙🦑🪸
Apply here: tinyurl.com/3pkcm85u
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Using light-activated CRISPR in zebrafish, we triggered synchronized DNA breaks and track the repair process.
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Well ... DNA repair is very different in embryos compared to tissue culture cells. Embryos repair DNA breaks incredibly fast - within minutes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Senior Aquarist would work alongside our amazing Cephalopod Facility Manager, Connor Gibbons - a world expert in culturing cephalopods + other techs, grad students & postdocs.
Responsibilities include overseeing our colony, building and maintaining life support systems & supervising staff. 2/3
🚨 A wonderful review exploring the diversity of sensory systems across life and species-agnostic tools we now have to study them and to better understand principles of neuroscience!
@tessamontague.bsky.social @kocherlab.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tessa Montague
Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy.
A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy.
Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us.
Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shape-shifting is a mainstay of fantasy and folktale. But, for certain creatures, it's just basic biology. Consider the cuttlefish.
From our archive, an audience favorite interview, w/
@tessamontague.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/the-cuttlefi...
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
Tessa Montague
Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:
Nature-inspired neuroscience
We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨
tinyurl.com/y5y9du27
We also showcase the creativity of scientists working in new model organisms:
human blood donations, insects flying in starlight virtual reality, custom-made ant protective suits, GPS-logging free flying bats, cuttlefish sperm donations & more…
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