Janine M. Ziermann-Canabarro, PhD
@JMZiermann
Assoc. Prof. @HowardU; #HUCM; #Anatomy; Evo & Devo of Head & Heart Musculature; 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸🇧🇷; she/her; @HEvoDevo (all opinions are my own)
🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous! Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball. Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
New hypothesis suggests costal breathing in amniotes evolved gradually as buccal pumping waned—driven by shifts in terrestrial feeding. A fresh take on how early amniotes learned to breathe. Elizabeth Brainerd: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…
🚨 New paper out! We explore how eDNA unveils plant diversity in the ironstone outcrops of Serra dos Carajás 🇧🇷🌿🧬 With @Reinator @oliveirag & team 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3.7… #eDNA #metabarcoding #soil #ironstone #Amazon #plant #biodiversity
Congratulations to these two Howard University seniors who are on the path to hotel ownership 🙌🏾 Brooklynn Tucker, an international business major from Aurora, Colorado, and Kayden Edwards, a supply chain management major from Columbus, Ohio, won the She Has a Deal pitch…
Today marks 14 years since I joined @AnatomyOrg a group that’s shaped my teaching, research, and professional community since 2011. Grateful for the connections, opportunities, and inspiration it continues to provide. #Anatomy #AAA
Forests in the Brazilian Amazon that have been damaged by fire stay approximately 2.6 °C (4.7 °F) warmer than nearby intact or selectively logged areas, with this elevated temperature lasting for at least 30 years. news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/bur…
Want to know more about hte Global Neuroanatomy Network? anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/as…
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
🔬 The rapid inventory of the Acarai-Corentyne Corridor was designed to provide actionable information on the biodiversity, ecological integrity, and human-environment interactions within a 1.3 million-hectare expanse of southern Guyana. 🔗 researchgate.net/publication/39…
A Tennessee school district has decided that they do not care if a child is sick & has a Dr's note, the district will no longer consider a medically diagnosed sickness with a Dr's note to be an excused absence and is prepared to take parents to court over it.
The California Blind Goby (Typhologobius californiensis) lives with Tidepool Ghost Shrimp, (specifically Neotrypaea biffari) in their sandy burrows. The goby is endemic to the tidepools of Central and Southern CA as well as the Mexican Pacific shoreline.
Brazil under fire for weakening environmental rules ahead of COP30 climate summit. climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/bra…
1/ 🚨 Our new paper is online in @Nature ! As its first author, I’m enthusiastic to finally share it with you all!🎉 🧠 We discovered a mechanistic link between cellular energy metabolism and the control of the need to sleep 💤 👉 nature.com/articles/s4158… @OxfordDPAG 🧵👇
📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!
Ever wonder who your cells are talking to? Now you can find out. Plasmids to perform the non-invasive gap junction tracing described in our recent Cell study are now available from Addgene! You can find them here: addgene.org/browse/article…
Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/07/21/cli…
Embryonic squamate lungs galore 🫁🥳🦎 @frogdiaz anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dv…