Anyi Mazo-Vargas

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I study the evolution and development of butterfly color patterns. I am here for: #genetics #evodevo #GeneRegulation #morphological evolution #signaling #Wnt #patterning #epithelial grow

I am a postdoctoral fellow from NSF-PRFB and a previous NASEM Ford Fellow. Affiliated to George Washington University.

#FirstGen #LatinainSTEM #MotherInSTEM 🦋🇨🇴🇺🇸

PronousShe/her/Ella
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_v3MKCMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
Websiteanyimv.weebly.com/
Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anyimv/
Anyi Mazo-VargasJan 15, 2023
Alexa SadierJan 3, 2023

RT @[email protected]

To be considered by Lego for production, my Ideas submission needs to gather 10,000 votes. If you'd like to see this set of arthropod model organisms available for purchase, please vote here and share among your friends and colleagues:

https://ideas.lego.com/s/p:c629ad4459f8452abfba2b6b96e29f54

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Mezarque/status/1610002484818481152

Arthropod Model Organisms

Scientists have learned a great deal about biology from a handful of "model organisms" – animals with unique characteristics that make them excellent ...

Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 19, 2022
Simon E. FisherDec 17, 2022

As a #scientist I think it’s important that we debunk the popular #myths & misconceptions of our fields of research. Having recently joined #Mastodon during the great #TwitterMigration, I’ll try to recreate some of my prior threads on misleading metaphors in #scicomm of #genetics & to adapt them for this platform.

First up: contrary to what you may have heard, your genome is not a blueprint. Read on to find out why...1/6

Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Alex WildDec 18, 2022

Butterflies up close are so… weird.

Parides sp. swallowtail, Belize.

#lepidoptera #Insects #Butterflies

Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Show threadFillip PortDec 16, 2022

In our most recent work, we found a strong influence of temperature on the efficiency of base editing. We tested two different base editors at the range that is preferred by Drosophila (and many other species; 18C-29C) and found that while one rapidly lost activity, the other one did not.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.13.520203v1

Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Parichy LabDec 14, 2022
New here on Mastodon. My group at University of Virginia studies #devbio and #evodevo of adult traits in #zebrafish and other species, mostly pigment pattern and scales. Also work on skeleton, postembryonic stem cells, behavior, natural history, other topics. Always looking for new weird stuff.
Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Marc Robinson-RechaviDec 16, 2022
Interesting for relation between #evodevo and #NaturalSelection:
"These results demonstrate that natural selection can rapidly reshape developmental gene expression on a broad scale when selective regimes abruptly change. More broadly, even highly conserved dGRNs and patterning mechanisms in the early embryo remain evolvable under appropriate ecological circumstances."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01906-9
#SeaUrchin
Recent reconfiguration of an ancient developmental gene regulatory network in Heliocidaris sea urchins - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of genomes, epigenomes and transcriptomes of developing sea urchins with divergent life histories shows how natural selection can reshape developmental gene regulatory networks.

Nature
Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Chris TrottierNov 18, 2022
EDIT: DO NOT BOOST!

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I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!

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Anyi Mazo-VargasDec 18, 2022
Vivek MutalikDec 15, 2022

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Anyi Mazo-VargasNov 23, 2022
Sergio Muñoz-GómezNov 23, 2022

📢THREE (!) new tenure-track or tenured Origins-of-Life faculty positions at Purdue.

"Applications are welcomed from astrobiology, evolutionary biology, self-replicating and evolutionary systems, and synthetic biology."

Spread the word!🙏

https://careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafayette-AssistantAssociate-Professor-IN-47906/961948400/

Assistant/Associate Professor

Assistant/Associate Professor

Anyi Mazo-VargasNov 23, 2022
NapaaqtukNov 23, 2022

It's live! I'm hiring a technician to process and analyze thousands of stickleback gut microbiomes.

TO APPLY: check hr.uconn.edu/jobs, Staff Positions, Search #496991 to upload a resume, cover letter, and contact information for three (3) professional references.

Full information about the position here: https://drkatlab.wordpress.com/2022/10/26/we-are-hiring-2022/

We are hiring! 2022

Kat Milligan-McClellan Lab