Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Joined June 2015
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27 May 2025
Our first paper on the temperate coral Astrangia poculata is out! Read more about this most excellent model system below. Exciting collaboration with @BabonisLeslie, @SharpKoty !
evodevojournal.biomedcentral…
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7 Aug 2024
Short video of a very gravid Northern Star coral (Astrangia poculata) colony spawning in the lab. Look at that thing go!
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17 Nov 2023
Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate gene function including gene knock-in positioning Astrangia as a powerful model for coral development and evolution. More here 👇:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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17 Nov 2023
This was a huge effort by all involved including @SharpKoty , @r_besemer30 , @ErinBorbee @IssyChangsut , @BabonisLeslie , @SchickleAlicia
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22 Sep 2023
Successful 2023 coral spawning season in the books!
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10 Aug 2023
It's that time of year again! Waiting for corals to spawn. These colonies are going on their 4th season of captive reproduction.
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Jake Warner retweeted
9 Mar 2023
The #BabonisLab is hiring a postdoc to study the evolution of novelty. Come work with us on cool questions in cool critters (like this octocoral!) For more info: babonislab.com To apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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9 Nov 2022
Please RT! My lab is recruiting a PhD student for an NSF funded project to examine the gene network wiring of Antarctic sea urchins. We hope to hear from you by Dec 1st. For more information please reach out via email
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10 Oct 2022
Here's a month old settled coral polyp to start your week. Look at those cute little tentacles!
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Jake Warner retweeted
2 Aug 2022
Keeping an eye on cell cleavage in #Astrangia embryos @rwusciences Love working with these developmental biologists! @BabonisLeslie @ScientistJake and Ryan Besemer!
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What a a pleasure to have participated in the symposium on developmental biology, evolution and climate change sharing a final great discussion with #BlancheCapel and Jacob Warner @ScientistJake. Thanks @Ohnolog, @theodosn and #Graciela for organizing it
#EvoDev2022 #2022SDB
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Jake Warner retweeted
18 Jul 2022
Should be a great session : Blanche Capel, Jacob Warner @ScientistJake, and Cristian Canestro @evodevogenomeUB are all speaking #EvoDevo2022 #2022SDB
18 Jul 2022
This afternoon come to the special symposium on climate change and evodevo! 🐢🪸🧬🔬
@SocDevBio @EvoDevoPanAm
#2022SDB #EvoDevo2022
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28 Apr 2022
Undergraduate Biology/Digital Arts student researcher Laura Sheppard showing off her awesome 3D printed sea urchin embryo models! She modeled those by hand!!
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Jake Warner retweeted
11 Apr 2022
The #BabonisLab is hiring a postdoc! We are interested in the evolution of novelty so we study the development of weird stuff in marine invertebrate embryos.
Check us out: babonislab.com
Review of applications starts May 1. To apply, visit: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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20 Oct 2021
Astrangia embryos are just the best. Love this model system!
Left: 4 hours old Northern star coral embryo (astrangia poculata), right: 24 hours old undergoing gastrulation.
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22 Sep 2021
It turns out those 'low-impact' gene expression studies are super helpful to resolve cell types in scRNAseq data. Very thankful for researchers and editors who see value in descriptive studies.
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Jake Warner retweeted
25 Aug 2021
My team at Illumina has been hiring like crazy for the last couple months and for some reason I was stupid and didn't post about it on Twitter. We're looking for anyone in the broad field of understanding what genomes do. If you're interested in talking about it, my DMs are open!
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