Super excited to see this story out ✨
Ctenophores are full of surprises 🪜🤩
1/5 A fascinating new #ctenophore preprint 🧵
Ferraioli et al. uncover a “ladder-like” neural architecture in the living comb jelly Mnemiopsis and connect it to preserved neuroanatomical traces in Cambrian fossils.
But the real importance isn’t the anatomy. It’s what the anatomy implies.
New article from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social group highlighted on the cover of Science Advances 🤩👏 The work, led by @annaferraioli.bsky.social, describes in unprecedented details the structure of the comb jelly's aboral organ (AO) 🧵 1/4
Happy #CtenophoreDay (10/4)! Last month, my picture of a cteno illustrated the cover of the latest paper of @annaferraioli.bsky.social & @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab on the Aboral Organ of Mnemiopsis. Zoom in on the centre of the image to see a white dot: the AO www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’m beyond excited to see our work published in Science Advances! 🎉
Deeply grateful to everyone involved — and especially to @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social for the great mentorship ✨
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited to see this story out as a preprint ✨
Honored to illustrate the work of @annaferraioli.bsky.social and the team of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social featured in Science Advances. Check it out!
It is easy to think that sea squirts only display simple behaviors and do not significantly interact with their environment 🌊 New research lead by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, Sissel Norland and @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social proves this assumption wrong 👏⤵
Congratulations to all the authors 👏 A special mention goes to @alexandrejan.bsky.social for a gorgeous cover image!
@leodigel.bsky.social @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @carinelegoff.bsky.social @joanjsoto.bsky.social @maikekittelmann.bsky.social @aaas.org 4/4
Our new book chapter on the culture of gelatinous plankton is out! Written with Miguel Candelas Pérez and @joanjsoto.bsky.social. Check out the book by using this link or contacting me: ecosur.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle...
Many thanks to the editor María A. Mendoza Becerril.
New research on the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis challenges the view that animals living fixed in place have simple behaviors and limited responses to their environment.
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New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The findings suggest that an elementary brain may have already appeared in our m...
A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology.
We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to share that our preprint has been accepted in Science Advances! Grateful to an incredible team & collaborators.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
👏 @annaferraioli.bsky.social @maikekittelmann.bsky.social
@msarscentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social #ctenophores
A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology.
We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Even more excited — our paper is featured on the cover of Science Advances!
Huge thanks to @alexandrejan.bsky.social who took this incredible photo of a ctenophore (aka comb jelly) and the editors.
Here’s the cover 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Introducing a Clytia planula cell atlas, and demonstrating broad-level relations with medusa cells via another updated atlas. By @annaferraioli.bsky.social with @juliarmateu.bsky.social and collaborators in a project led by @rcply.bsky.social @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pawel Burkhardt
Pawel Burkhardt
Pawel Burkhardt
The ctenophore aboral organ integrates multimodal sensory signals across distinct cell types.
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
