M. Brent Hawkins

Can a fin (still) become a limb? To find out, @fishyskeleton, @khenke2012, and I performed genetic studies in the zebrafish & found the remarkable hidden ability of fins to become more limb-like. Look below for a quick summary of our findings! authors.elsevier.com/c/1cX5dL7PXez5d

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@chasebolt Bluesky is the place to be

I'm just checking in on X to see if the situation has improved since a year ago. WTF? It's all just political rage bait now? Where is the science community now? Bluesky?

Some personal news...

Looking forward to #2025SDB #2025ICDB this week! I'll be presenting on my mammal tail research during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday @ 9:40AM!

Some B-roll from Eliza Barkan’s new preprint out of the Trapnell Lab. I think it will be a fin-tastic resource for the zebrafish community, especially for those trying to get a handle on the signaling pathways involved in specific cell types. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The sclerotome is the source of the dorsal and anal fin skeleton and its expansion is required for median fin development Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Raisa Bailon-Zambrano, James Nichols @NicholsLab and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…

This a special one for us, I found this weird mutant without a dorsal fin close to 15 years ago while a postdoc with Chuck Kimmel @uoregon Ultra talented @BailonRaisa uncovered a complete story as my first PhD student. Back burner projects can pay off. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Using an embryo-model to study Hoxb13 regulation and its impact on tail growth. Now @PNASNews 🙏Lucille, Joska, Celia, Hocine et al👍@EPFL @UNIGEnews @cdf1530 @the_Node #InHoxWeTrust pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

I am very excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc with @UCSDCooperLab ! Read along to learn about tails and vertebral proportion 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Holy cow! A beautiful phenotype matched with excellent analysis! Congratulations @TanakaY_evodevo and all the authors. Zebrafish fins can be elaborated across multiple axes to produce new skeletal patterns

Plasticity in the pectoral fin skeleton is induced by altered foraging regime in a South American cichlid biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

How can you make a zebrafish fin grow into a triangle instead of a fork?? Congratulations to Eric and @nicocump and the whole team! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fish shoulder girdle is weird and fascinating evo-devo model. Multiple cell populations come together and make one composite bone. Check our latest with Shunya K, @chrmosimann @Rob_Lalonde89 #evodevo #teamfish #heterogeneity nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are looking for a bioinformatician @cdf1530 @CirbCdf in Paris to analyse genomic/epigenetic datasets🧬 in the context of a synergy @ERC_Research long term program. See below and apply😎 RT🙏

When you can't decide which concurrent session to attend at Helsinki #EED2024 @AteneumMuseum

@ZebrafishRock @intheOR Beautiful! What are the markers?

Time-lapse capture of zebrafish pectoral fin development. Credit to @intheOR. #ZebrafishZunday

@FishEvoDevoGeno @Duboule A nice collection of 5DOM-patterned structures all in one convenient place

@kaisakajala @Duboule Very appropriate!

@Homeobox @Duboule They indeed are so popular! Just kidding. It's Finnish slang for "Take note" / "N.B." / "Pay attention to this!"

.@Duboule even the cafeteria is excited for your seminar at #EED2024

@kaisakajala @Duboule Kaisa what is the translation of Hox hox!? Or are homeotic genes really so popular here?

@Homeobox @Duboule 🤣🤣🤣