Molette Lab

@echinoblog I've been trying to find a good global key to holothuroid families (better yet, genera). Any suggestions? Thanks!

Excited to see UMD's Adam Bazinet give a shout-out to @kmkocot & #mollusc #phylogenomics at #PhyloFrontiers2013 !!

Day 2 at #PhyloFrontiers2013, great informal talks/discussion of phylogenomic methods.

With next gen sequencing, today's students can do a 1980's thesis in a thousandth of a second. #genomics

Rob deSalle from #amnh up first, "My students could do my dissertation in 5 minutes."

3 Molette Lab students attending Frontiers of Phylogenetics symposium at the #smithsonian. Live-tweeting #genomics!

Molette Lab students @AuburnU AU Explore outreach event! #wareagle

Taking grad student servitude to a whole new level - @Molette_Lab PI Scott Santos gets a ride.

We're on a limited internet connection so we haven't been able to upload photos of animals from the trawls... Stay tuned.

Trawl is on its way up from 4500+ meters!

All six landers are safely on the bottom. Hopefully they're being colonized by inverts as we speak! Now we're on to benthic sampling.

Five landers down, one to go!

Waves up to 13 feet but at least it's sunny :)

This work is part of a collaboration with Dr. Craig Smith's lab at the University of Hawaii to study deep-sea ecology and phylogeography.

Each lander has wood, whale bones, and "control" substrates.

Landers 2 and 3 are safely on the bottom!

Lander 1 is on its way down!

Members from the Molette lab are currently at sea on the R/V Oceanus participating in a project to study whale bone-eating worms!

For Molette Lab #Antarctic news, keep following @Icy_Inverts_AU !!

Welcome to the new general-use twitter for @AuburnU 's Molette Lab! From here we'll be promoting lab news, including research cruises!