Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

By phylogenetic reconstruction, Daniel Thiel and Luis Yanez could show that #cnidarian #neuropeptide receptors diversified independent from #GPCRs in bilateria. This parallel #evolution and expansion confirms that cnidarians do not represent the ancestral state in neuronal signalling (as implied by terms like 'pre-bilaterian') any more than bilaterians.
#receptor #evolution #neuroscience #phylogeny

In collaboration with Alison Cole and Ulrich Technau we also mapped the peptidergic #connectome of #Nematostella, by linking peptide-expressing to receptor-expressing cells.
In #Cnidaria, tissues are extensively connected via #neuropeptide signalling.
#neuroscience

A Bad Supreme Court Decision Based on Ersatz Facts https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/07/04/a-bad-supreme-court-decision-based-on-ersatz-facts/

Applications for Imperial College Research Fellowships are now open! This is a great opportunity for early career researchers to begin an independent research career. Please share.

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Not all fevers are due to infection. That's the easy bit through - working out when it's safe to withhold antibiotics, that's way harder.

Can be done (👇) but are there criteria / biomarkers that can guide this better?
#medicine #MedMastodon #AMR #hematology #stemcelltherapy #transplant

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad389/7210769

Pachyrhinosaurus paleoart study. Been awhile since I did one in this style and saw Pachyrhinosaurus was making a buzz online recently so felt compelled to do a quick paleoart study. #Pachyrhinosaurus #Dinosaurs #Paleoart

When I receiving this book, my memory flew to the years when I worked on eukaryotic protein domain annotations. Annotating A. thaliana, a model organism for plant, is part of the routine pipeline alongside with processing other organism proteomes such as Clamydomonas and others. Plant is always be an inseparable part of eukaryotic domains of life, along with human and others. Today, I'm very happy to receive this book from Adhit , my colleague. I hope it will be useful for our future works!

The @eseb Under-represented ECR Achievement (#EUEA) Award recognizes the achievements of under-represented #ECRs who have faced difficult circumstances. Learn here about the life & work of the 2023 winners Paul Bangura & Zabibu Kabalika: ow.ly/cTeE50P0HMQ

Tools to analyze the organization and formation of the germline cyst in zebrafish oogenesis

Read this #OpenAccess Techniques and Resources Article by Vineet Kumar and Yaniv Elkouby from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine:

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/13/dev201349/321182/Tools-to-analyze-the-organization-and-formation-of

Did you know that @Dev_journal has published a complementary series of Primers that introduce developmental biologists to stem cell #bioengineering technologies?

'Quantitative developmental biology in vitro using #micropatterning' by Guillaume Blin
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.186387

'Microfluidic systems for modeling #humandevelopment' by Makenzie Bonner et al.
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199463

'Modeling development using hydrogels' by Karen Xu et al.
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201527

#devbio #stemcells

ICYMI: Recordings of a fantastic symposium organised by the inimitable Denis Duboule on 'Developmental Timing'

Jean Leon Maitre
Thomas Gregor
Claude Desplan
Pierre Vanderhaeghen
Olivier Pourquie
& yours truly

https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-temps-du-developpement-embryonnaire

#IDMastodon #Viralimmunology @thelancetinfdis Data were collected & analysed between April 25 - Sept 25, 2022. For 157 861 #omicron-infected symptomatic individuals
📌Cough was the most common symptom (99 032 patients)
-Sore throat (95 838 [62·7%] patients),
-Nasal discharge (69 968 [60·7%] patients)
-Fever (61 218 [38·8%] patients).
Omicron BA.5 infection was associated with a higher prevalence of systemic symptoms than BA.2 in vaccinated & unvaccinated individuals

@thelancetinfdis Omicron BA.5 infection was associated with a higher prevalence of systemic symptoms than BA.2 in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals (adjusted odds ratio [OR] for fever: 2·18 [95% CI 2·12–2·25]).

China 🇨🇳 reports one case of mpox in Shenyang city in northeastern Liaoning province.

Local authorities said the patient is undergoing treatment at a designated hospital.

How the threat of climate change inspired my career in medicine (and I'm not the only one) - eBioMedicine

(for clarity, this 👆 is not referring to me!) #medicine #ClimateChange #MedMastodon #climateemergency

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(23)00254-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email