Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences @ Mississippi State
Joined January 2017
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5 Jun 2024
Positively thrilled to share I will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University (@msstate_biology) in Fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor!
Stay tuned for updates on gene regulatory evolution and evo-devo from the Davidson Lab!
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5 Sep 2025
Our lab at @msstate_biology is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io
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5 Oct 2024
Hope this becomes required reading for grad classes!
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1 Sep 2024
Moczek-lab members and various hangers on went on a rather unusual field trip this weekend!
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29 Jul 2024
We're proud to announce that @veronica_hinman will be joining us as the new director of @UF's #WhitneyLab, starting January 1, 2025!
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17 Apr 2024
Dung beetle central’s newest pets!
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5 Apr 2024
Very excited to announce that #EarlGrey has been accepted for publication @MolBioEvol 🥳 thanks to @zanderhayward and James Galbraith for all the work, amazing to share this after many years of work! doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae0…
#bioinformatics #transposons #research
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5 Apr 2024
Dung beetle central went back to the source today, so to speak! @NCSE @EricaNadolski @rohner_patrick @ezattara @PipettuaJones
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14 Mar 2024
Check out our recent work exploring the role of chromatin accessiblity and genome evolution during plastic trait development/diversification: journals.plos.org/plosgeneti… . Plus three new chromosome-resolved dung beetle genomes to boot! Beetle horns rock! @NSF @PLOSGenetics
14 Mar 2024
All organisms adjust which genes to express when to environmental conditions. Yet how genetic and environmental inputs are integrated to allow gene regulatory networks to act in an adaptive, context-dependent manner remains poorly understood. (1/3) doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen…
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8 Mar 2024
It took us forever to get a new lab picture, but here we finally are! Such a fantastic group to be part of! Find out more at ecodevodevo.com @IUCollege @IUBiology @NSF @NCSE
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27 Feb 2024
The @PacBio Nanobind PanDNA kits are out! The team worked hard to integrate everything into a single kit that generates beautiful HiFi data across the board. You should see the panel of critters and plants we tested in development!
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Hello Retweet & Share:
Hiring a postdoc for @cnidimmunitylab for 3yrs on coral #cell culture. Experience in #corals not necessary. Full benefits, and salary between $53-60K & negotiable depending on experience. APPLY!!!!!
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8 Nov 2023
Our next meeting will be in Chile! A joint meeting between @EvoDevoPanAm @LASDB_DevBiol @intlsocdiff and SBDch. Mar 17-20, 2024. Exciting invited speakers! Register from this link by 11/30. panamevodevo.org/
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18 Oct 2023
I am exited to share that my first-author paper is online on @NatureComms !
👩🔬 🐭 🐸 🐟 🐵
We compared strategies for cross-species integration of scRNA-seq data, offered guidelines for effective integration and ideas for future method development
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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5 Oct 2023
Hot of the online presses a short review on plasticity evodevo in your favorite insect. Great fun writing this with @EricaNadolski and @PhilDavidson Please DM if trouble getting pdf doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.… @nsf @IUBiology @IUCollege
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14 Jul 2023
🚨We are recruiting a PostDoc and a PhD to investigate how larvae evolved! Supported by @LeverhulmeTrust, join a terrific group of people @QMUL @QM_SBBS to investigate fascinating marine 🪱🪱!
PhD ad: alturl.com/i64ue
DM/e-mail (chema.martin@qmul.ac.uk) for more info!
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22 Jun 2023
Looking forward to more adventures examining the regulatory basis for beetle horn variation! @erica_nadolski @ecoevodevo_lab @NSF
22 Jun 2023
You are what you eat—sometimes. NSF grant to support @ecoevodevo_lab, Phil Davidson, and Erica Nadolski’s study on horned beetles to understand context-responsive nature of development. go.iu.edu/4Oca @IUCollege @IUScienceNews @IUImpact
ALT Chart comparing the horns on 2 different species of horned beetles illustrating diverse forms of condition-dependent development. The left and center column show the horn morphologies of males that experienced good compared to suboptimal feeding conditions. The far right column shows the corresponding morphology of well fed females. In these two species, the well fed males have larger horns than the not-as-well-fed males. The females have no horns.
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6 Jun 2023
Bittersweet moment as the last chapter of my PhD is out now in @GenomeBiolEvol! @Ken_Halanych and I investigated the utility of deep learning networks in protein clustering and annotation, developing a VQ-VAE for unaligned protein sequences!
academic.oup.com/gbe/article…
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8 Jun 2023
New urchin genome out in wild with Echinometra lucunter. Thanks for the awesome collaboration @carlosdiversity
7 Jun 2023
New paper by @PhilDavidson Great job, Phil! @GIGA_COS @uricels @NMNH
Near-Chromosomal-Level Genome Assembly of the Sea Urchin Echinometra lucunter, a Model for Speciation in the Sea academic.oup.com/gbe/article…
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3 May 2023
Do you love genomes? Sex chromosomes? Speciation? Beetles? This could be the postdoc position for you! The Bracewell Lab is hiring. Don’t hesitate to reach out if interested.
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