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@EvolutionVU

Center for Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA. Tweets managed by @flickanator101 and @RokasLab

Nashville, TN Katılım Mayıs 2019
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In 1952, Ilda McVeigh was already studying how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics — one of the most urgent evolutionary challenges we face today. A Vanderbilt scientist ahead of her time. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInScience #Evolution
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Mark your calendars! 📅 Our 11th annual meeting is coming up July 28-31, 2026, in Kiel, Germany. Make sure your membership is up to date to get registration discounts when they become available. This is going to be a great gathering of our community! isemph.org
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🎉 TODAY: The J.T. Scopes Lecture! Tyrone Hayes discusses endocrine disruptors, environmental justice, and the role of scientists as advocates. 🕒 3pm TODAY - Join us! 🐸 #ScopesLecture #Evolution
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Happy Women's History Month! Meet Gisela Mosig — molecular biologist, Vanderbilt trailblazer, and one of the first scientists to uncover how DNA recombination drives genome #evolution. Oh, and she escaped 1940s Germany on a bicycle. Absolute legend. #WomenInScience
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Why do humans get so many chronic diseases? How does understanding our evolutionary past help us address modern health crises? These are questions ISEMPH members explore every day. Follow us for insights from researchers working at the frontiers of evolutionary medicine.
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🐸 In 2 weeks: Tyrone B. Hayes delivers the J.T. Scopes Lecture! The UC Berkeley biologist whose groundbreaking research exposed how atrazine disrupts amphibian development. March 18 | 3pm | Free & open to all #Science
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New this week! Female birds sing — and new research from @CreanzaLab reveals WHY. Drs. Kate Snyder & Nicole Creanza studied 1,000+ songbird species and found cooperative breeding and female song coevolve, reshaping how we understand birdsong #evolution. 🎶 wp.me/pbblkY-116
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Malu Jorge published cool new work looking at the effects of climate change on white-lipped peccaries! Peccaries are changing their habits to manage their warming environment #Science #Evolution
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Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science
Congratulations to Charu Balamurugan, BA’25, whose @MHSVanderbilt honors thesis was published in the journal Health Equity! Her research examined mental health indicators across race, ethnicity, and LGBTQ statuses of youth in Minnesotan correctional facilities.
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National Center for Science Education
Reminder: Friday, February 27 is the application deadline for My COAST coming up in Galveston, TX! This unique hands-on PD is primarily focused around the Texas Gulf Coast but is open to all teachers who may benefit. Learn more and apply: forms.gle/2ScAWPWyPyQE54…
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New work from graduate student Owen Hale (Behringer Lab)! The paper, "Elevated rates and biased spectra of mutations in anaerobically cultured lactic acid bacteria," was published in mBio. Hale tracked 3 species of bacteria through >1000 generations in oxygen-free conditions.
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🎉 TODAY: #DarwinDay 2026! Michael Lynch discusses evolutionary cell biology 🕒 3pm TODAY 📍 MRB III 1220 Join us for this landmark lecture! #EvolutionaryBiology
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🧬 In 2 weeks: Michael Lynch delivers our #DarwinDay Lecture! The evolutionary biologist & NAS member will discuss how population genetics shape cellular evolution, challenging assumptions about what natural selection can achieve. 📅 Feb 18 | 3pm | Free & open to all #Evolution
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National Center for Science Education
NCSE would like to welcome our newest board members, Carin Bondar, Lee Ferguson, Quentin Ladson, and Gale M. Sinatra. All four new members of the board will officially join NCSE's board of directors at its April 2026 meeting. ncse.ngo/new-additions-…
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VU Graduate School
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Save the date and join us for the Spring Career Colloquium, taking place from February 16 - 20. For more information and to register for each event, please see the link below! lnkd.in/eAFiS24A
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🐴 How do horses produce extreme energy without free radical damage? They evolved to "run" a genetic stop sign - a trick previously only seen in viruses. Clinical implications for Parkinson's & epilepsy. Story: loom.ly/cACR5HY [p.10] @giannicast
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