Emily Lau, PhD
@chipotlau
Postdoc at UChicago working with @JoeThorntonLab | interests: #bioluminescence, convergent evolution, & puns
New preprint with @UCSB_OakleyLab @niko_hensley @JeroDelr et al. on the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in brittle stars!
Functional characterization of luciferase in a brittle star indicates parallel evolution influenced by genomic availability of ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio
［論文出版📢］ 青森県の浅虫よりホタルミミズ Microscolex phosphoreusを発見した論文が公開されました。青森県初記録である同時に日本最北限記録を更新しました。浅虫水族館と浅虫臨海の皆様ご協力ありがとうございました🪱 ↓以下のリンクから無料で読めます。 hotaru-museum.jp/6341.html
If you have ever wondered whether the PAML documentation could be more interactive... We have good news for you! The PAML GitHub repository has been updated and a fresh PAML Wiki is now available for you to navigate the PAML documentation! 📄💻 (1/n) github.com/abacus-gene/pa…
Online now: Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age dlvr.it/TFh1Hd
Super fun article by @eabrown18 spotlights our deep-sea research led by Jacob Winnikoff and Itay Budin @ibudin scientificamerican.com/article/how-de…
New preprint w/ @SciStrader and Gretchen Hofmann! We show that parental environments alter the fitness consequences and genetic architecture of offspring plasticity and associated gene expression pathways in purple urchins. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
our second session of the q&a panel series is in a few weeks! this one will focus on the technicalities and tacit rules of applying to phd programs. open to anyone, but focus will be on biology programs. please share widely with your networks of potentially interested folks ✨
come join UChicago’s E&E PhD students in a casual discussion around what a PhD entails and how to figure out if it’s a good choice for you! anyone who is vaguely or actively considering the idea of getting a PhD in biology (or specifically ecology & evolution) is welcome!
Anyone going to @SICB_ 2025 who has interfaced with policy at any organizational/government level and is willing to sit on a panel? The Public Affairs Committee is seeking volunteers! Help your fellow scientists navigate how research and policy can combine. @SICB_SPDAC
Postdoc opportunity for coral reef scientists, $90k salary! @UChicago's Climate Systems Engineering Iniative fellowship apps are due Oct 15, and I'd be delighted to serve as your research mentor in @UChicagoBSD. How does geongineering the ocean affect calcifying organisms?
Opportunity for Postdoctoral Researchers at the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at UChicago! $90k/year salary + $10k/year research funding + research autonomy Work with a mentor from a discipline as part of our growing community. Please forward to your networks.
Thrilled to share this preprint from my postdoc w/ @joannalkelley Studying Zoarcoidei, we detected gradients in antifreeze protein (AFP) copy number across habitat temperature and pressure driven by homologs translocated out of an ancestral AFP array biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🐌 I guess National Snail Day is a good time to share the overwhelming diversity of pelagic gastropods we saw in the Gulf of California, Mexico, last month. We used scuba and trawls on the R/V Sally Ride, supported by NSF grants and expertise of Brad Seibel and Amy Maas.
New paper in early view at @AnatRecord detailing #toepad morphology of the miniaturized #gecko, Chatogekko amazonicus, and comparing setal morphology with other geckos! Collab w/: @shsugeckolab, @StuartVNielsen, @fpwerneck, PF Viana, and @tony_gamble1 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Thrilled to share this study by Jacob Suissa, @fern_way, and me published today in @NatureComms "Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants" nature.com/articles/s4146…
Shrimp glow, did ya know?!!! So proud of @prawn_princess_ for this review of bioluminescence in deep-sea decapods! We increase previous accounts by 65% and found most common form of GLOW is NOT what we expected. @FIUMarineBio @FIUEnvironment @FIUCASE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
🚨New paper!!🚨 Ectotherms with high thermal tolerance are often less thermally plastic, potentially due to a fitness tradeoff Just out in @FunEcology, we find that reproductive costs of thermal plasticity are greater in more thermally tolerant families besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…