Hannah Gellert

First ever @biorxivpreprint is up! a HUGE thank you to @G_Pask for being such a great mentor through this whole process! Now, have you ever wondered what ant antennae look like up close (like real close)… (1/11) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new preprint on snow leopard genomics - the culmination of a years-long collaboration across the snow leopard community @snowleopards @PantheraCats @TheWCS @snowleopardkg and @PCG_Stanford @PetrovADmitri @_ellie_cat @African_Morgan biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵

With @_hgellert, Sam Church, @AntonySuvorov, @PetrovADmitri and others, we use low-input (down to 30ng), single-insect @nanopore sequencing to help do 184 new genomes and address the near absence of genomic data for drosophilid species that cannot be cultured in the lab.

We are generating genomic data for all #Drosophila stock center lines as a open resource for the community. @nanopore + resequencing + transcriptome. Huge week-long effort by an amazing group @ASRampasso @KylaOHearn @erdagostino @_LadyOfTheFlies @afmata_2 @Ldy_Natalia @YazBraimah

Super excited to be going with @kasolari and @_hgellert from our lab to gorongosa.org to start our #nsf funded project with @rob_pringle. We will use genomics and fecal genotyping to help understand the eco-evolutionary dynamics of the rewilding of this jewel of a park.

@G_Pask This is amazing!!

Tayras (Eria barbara) are definitely one of the more underrated mustelids, and I always love to see them on the @Guatemala_WCS camera traps 👀 our local population here in Petén has this unique full “hood” of blonde fur, which makes them especially cool!

@PetrovADmitri and I have been working with amazing Drosophila collaborators to broadly sequence the diversity of this group. We believe it is now technically feasible to sequence all >4,400 species, and have organized a #Dros23 workshop to engage the community in this effort.

So impressed by our first @nanopore PromethION runs (P2 solo) prepped by @kasolari and @_hgellert. Zebra blood gDNA + ligation kit 14 with minimal tweaks. Barcoding workflow needs tweaks for read length but getting tons of data doing 8 Drosophila samples at a time.

Excited to finally get R10.4.1+Q20 & looks like @nanopore only assembly is the way to go. Major yield & accuracy boost a bonus to our upcoming effort to sequence all of family Drosophilidae (@PetrovADmitri @danrdanny @danielrmatute @DarrenObbard @_hgellert @mbeisen et al)

my favorite part about health insurance is how your teeth and eyeballs are add-ons

The most important lesson 🧡

I have seen writing threads pop up, and each one gives me extreme creative anxiety. They feel like a recipe for a fine French dish that would either taste like sh*t after I mess something up or make me burn down the house. A thread of 4 tips that helped me make writing FUN 🧵⬇️

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

Very excited to procrastinate by telling you that my very first article is out! It's called 'Sinking Paradise? Climate change vulnerability and Pacific Island extinction narratives'. It tells a story of colonialism and climate change. Thread and link below, sharing appreciated!🙏

@bhrenton @G_Pask @biorxivpreprint Thanks Benjy!

@_hgellert @G_Pask @biorxivpreprint Congrats Hannah! Fantastic work.

First ever @biorxivpreprint is up! a HUGE thank you to @G_Pask for being such a great mentor through this whole process! Now, have you ever wondered what ant antennae look like up close (like real close)… (1/11) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It happened!! Check out our new preprint for some up close images of ant antennae!

Thanks for scrolling through! We hope you enjoy the pre-print! (11/11)

Beyond grateful to Greg (@G_Pask), Daphné (@daphnehly), and Zack for endless hours spent looking at SEM images! And to Jody from @Middlebury STSS- this project would have been impossible without you! Lastly, thank you to everyone that sent us ant specimens!! (10/11)