Sharks, brains & laser beams - My lab focuses on comparative neuroanatomy of sharks, batoids, & chimaerids. Director of the @YopakZoMBiELab at @UNCWilmington
Joined August 2012
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Kara Yopak retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Do shark brains differ between different species? Does one species' brain change over its lifespan? How does changing environment change brain development? These are questions @ProfSharkBrain and @YopakZoMBiELab are trying to answer!
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Kara Yopak retweeted
20 Sep 2024
#DidYouKnow that @ProfSharkBrain and @YopakZoMBiELab have seen 180 species of skates, rays, sharks, and chimera brains? Learn about what she and her Zombie Lab are learning about these brain specimens on the Gills Talk podcast!
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18 Sep 2024
Had such a great time on the @GillsClub podcast talking all things 🦈 🧠
18 Sep 2024
We have a new episode of Gills Talk with @ProfSharkBrain herself! Learn if sharks are smart and if that is truly a term we should use to describe their brains! @YopakZoMBiELab
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Kara Yopak retweeted
Wow so many publications this month! Congrats to Dr.Steve Kinsey, Dr.Michael Mallin, and Dr.Kara Yopak for their new publications
20-year water quality analysis
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Hypoxia Tolerance
doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae144
Bioimaging of sense organs
doi.org/10.1002/ar.25566
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🎉New paper🚨 Interested in 3D imaging of the nervous system of fishes or reptiles? Check out @UNCW_BaMB's Kara Yopak's @ProfSharkBrain latest collaborative publication on imaging! doi.org/10.1002/ar.25566
@AnatRecord
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9 Sep 2024
Check out our latest collaborative paper on imaging of the nervous system! 🦈
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Kara Yopak retweeted
16 Aug 2024
A tribute to the great Harvey Karten, an absolute giant in comparative neurobiology thetransmitter.org/neuroanat…
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Kara Yopak retweeted
Great to be visiting @ProfSharkBrain of @YopakZoMBiELab at the Centre for Marine Science in Wilmington, North Carolina, talking shark brains & endocasts 🦈 🧠
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Kara Yopak retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Understanding repro mode evolution in sharks and rays we can test different theories about how these traits relate to diversification dynamics (i.e. rates of speciation and extinction): the Viviparity Driven Conflict Hypothesis and the Novel Ecological Opportunity hypothesis.
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Kara Yopak retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Live-bearing and matrotrophy co-evolved with increasing body size, shallower depth, and more tropical distributions. Larger maternal body size accommodates retained embryos, and increased foraging efficiency with reduced predation risk may allow for more maternal investment
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Kara Yopak retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Egg-laying is ancestral and live-bearing and matrotrophy (additional maternal nourishment beyond the initial yolk) have evolved multiple times. While some groups are invariant (all skates lay eggs), groups like the requiem sharks exhibit diverse reproductive modes and habitats
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Kara Yopak retweeted
5 Jun 2024
The sequence and drivers of the evolution of live-bearing and matrotrophy are fundamental questions in vertebrate macroecology, and sharks and rays with their reproductive diversity (everything from egg-laying to placentas) are an ideal group for addressing these questions.
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Kara Yopak retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Hot off the press! Out now in @CurrentBiology "Maternal investment evolves with larger body size
and higher diversification rate in sharks and rays"
Read here:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jCxB…
Massive thanks to my co-authors @mwpen @ProfSharkBrain and @NickDulvy
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Kara Yopak retweeted
22 Mar 2024
I am today's Roer seminar speaker @UNCW_BaMB, at 3 PM excited to see you all there!
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Kara Yopak retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Do sharks have ears? Unlike us, sharks have no need for external ears. Instead, they feel the sound with their whole bodies! In this episode, Dr Lucille Chapuis talks to us about the fascinating topic of shark hearing!
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Kara Yopak retweeted
20 Feb 2024
Today’s the day! GlanceBar for visionOS is now available on the App Store:
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GlanceBar consolidates all of your day's essentials (time/date, weather conditions, upcoming events, and reminders) into a single compact window bar.
#applevisionpro #indiedev
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Kara Yopak retweeted
13 Oct 2023
We really can't. Sounds fantastic!
& for anyone who might've missed your co authored work ,
Interspecific Variation in the Inner #Ear Maculae of #Sharks
Sauer, Yopak, Radford
doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad031
ALT Fig. 2. Tracings of the saccular maculae from three representative shark species, M. lenticulatus (A), I. oxyrinchus (B), and S . g riffini (C), demon- strating the similar shape of the saccule and similar HC orientations (arrows indicate orientation) between species. Note that length and width should not be directly compared, as scales differ. Scale bars = 1000 μm. D = dorsal, R = rostral.
12 Oct 2023
Can you imagine a better weekend than dissecting shark noses with @OceanExplauren and Aubrey?? Yeah, I can’t either… 🦈🧠
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12 Oct 2023
Can you imagine a better weekend than dissecting shark noses with @OceanExplauren and Aubrey?? Yeah, I can’t either… 🦈🧠
11 Oct 2023
A great 2 days of #SharkSnootScience with Aubrey and @ProfSharkBrain in the @YopakZoMBiELab 🦈🧠
Sampled 18 shark noses including 7 new species for me: bronze whaler, Australian swell shark, school shark, smooth hammerhead, blue shark, shortfin mako, and a FREAKING SEVENGILL!!!
ALT Lauren sitting dissecting the nose of a sevengill shark as Aubrey watches.
ALT Lauren smiling in a lab coat and goggles with a sevengill shark head
ALT Lauren holding a bronze whalers shark head on a tray
ALT Lauren dissecting an Australian swell shark nose
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12 Oct 2023
So honored and excited to be interviewed by @isla_hodgson for the @saveourseas #worldofsharks podcast! We had so much fun discussing all things brain - come visit our lab soon Isla!!
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19 Sep 2023
So excited to see this work in print! PHD student @derek_sauer looked at variation in the inner ear hair cells across species. Awesome collab with #craigradford @YopakZoMBiELab @UNCW_BaMB
19 Sep 2023
Because every week should be #SharkWeek 👍
Interspecific Variation in the Inner #Ear #Maculae of #Sharks
by Sauer, Yopak, & Radford
doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad031
"...we quantified inner ear hair cells in the saccule, lagena, utricle, and macula neglecta of 9 distinct shark species."
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