Biotech engineer
Joined August 2022
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Sandra Afonso retweeted
10 Oct 2022
We are very proud to have our paper by @mbtoomey et al. on the genetics of red colouration in vertebrates as the cover of @CurrentBiology!
📸 @M_Miguel_Araujo
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Sandra Afonso retweeted
1 Oct 2022
“Good people do things for other people. That’s it. The end” #AfterLife x.com/MichaelWarbur17/status…
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Sandra Afonso retweeted
1 Sep 2022
I am for the third time in the organising team of a TiBE Conference. This time engaging people working on the biology of colour. Join us in December 5-7 in Portugal, at @CIBIO_InBIO, for #TiBE2022!
29 Aug 2022
We are excited to announce that @CIBIO_InBIO will host the 2022 Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution meeting: The Biology of Colour (#TiBE2022). We invite all colleagues working on this topic to join us in December 5-7 in Portugal. Follow the thread 🧵for more details:
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Sandra Afonso retweeted
31 Aug 2022
But how is this conversion done? Previous studies by us (tinyurl.com/redcanary) and other groups have highlighted the role of CYP2J19 as a key enzyme that does this in birds, but additional data suggested that it could not be the sole agent of this process
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Sandra Afonso retweeted
31 Aug 2022
Check out our new paper, out now @CurrentBiology "A mechanism for red coloration in vertebrates"
cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Follow this thread for more on this story co-led with @mbtoomey and @CorboLab:
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