Entomologist/photographer @Cornell Lost Ladybug Project, Biocontrol, Physiology, Nutritional & Chemical Ecology,🐞📸, tweets are my own.

Joined October 2014
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Ninespotted 🐞 reared @Cornell Nice Beetle! Great images!!! Fantastic show!!! @CornellNews @CornellCALS @CornellGradDean @cornellento @ccecornell @InsectsCornell @AMNH
The Extinct & Endangered book is out today. A collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, the project raises awareness of insect decline and biodiversity loss. #insectdecline #biodiversityloss #biodiversity #insects #extinction #climatechange #habitatloss
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Pretty cool!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… Last year, we showed that membranes can be asymmetric in an unexpected way: more phospholipids on one side than the other, balanced by cholesterol Here, Bogdanov et al show similar in EColi, with DAG doing cholesterol's flippy-buffer job
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Looking for a used or cheap gel-imager. I know there are probably hundreds of these things laying around in labs unused…maybe someone is willing to part with one that’s just taking up space?
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Our Charles Perkins Centre Academic Director, Professor Stephen J Simpson, steps down from his role after 13 years “Steve’s contribution to creating the flourishing multidisciplinary research and education ecosystem for which @sydney is now so well-known is simply beyond measure. That journey started in earnest when he took on the role to lead the establishment of our first whole-of-university MDI, the @CPC_usyd" Prof @DrEmmaLJohnston Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Prof Simpson continues in his role until March 2025 thereafter as Professor in @SydneySOLES @Sydney_Science as an @NHRMC Investigator Fellow We'll be highlighting Prof Simpson CPC's many achievements over the coming months ➡️ sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
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Hot off the press! Thank you, John@CarlsonLab_Yale. It was fun writing this with you. Soon, we will film the video for this protocol! jove.com/t/66665/base-record…

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What do you do when you can’t find primers that are specific for your target DNA. I’ve got 5 similar genes and only want to amplify a 1000bp fragment of 1 of the genes. Primer-blast didn’t do it no matter how I tweaked the parameters. Help!
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If you crispr some bugs and don’t see the behavioral phenotype you’re after, you should still PCR and run a gel in case it’s mosaic? Yes/NO!?
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Our research on using AlphaFold2 to predict how peptides from disordered regions bind proteins has now been published with @SpringerNature in @NatureComms I am very happy to share the updated paper with you 😀 rdcu.be/dwlLa

📢New preprint (together with Hélène Bret and Raphael Guerois) exploring how often AlphaFold2 can identify the correct binding site and interface for peptides from disordered regions, depending on the size of the input fragment and on the provided multiple sequence alignment.
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The smallest flying insects, of the genus Megaphragma, are smaller than a single-celled amoeba. An adult wasp has 4,600 neurons, compared to a house fly with 340,000. Their neurons also don't have a nucleus, which enabled their brains to shrink by 50%.
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Fully funded MSc positions available in my lab in 2024 @stfxuniversity . Bugs, behaviour, evolution, all in small town Nova Scotia 🐞🇨🇦 Please share!
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Thanks to all the presenters at our #esa2023 Chemical Ecology Symposium. Fantastic research and standing room only. 🐞🦟🪰@hdweck99 @LadyLordOfFlies Thanks also to @lovettbr and @EstherNgumbi for organizing a great meeting 🎉🍾
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