Loranzie Rogers
@loranzierogers.bsky.social
HHMI Hanna Gray postdoctoral fellow & BWF PDEP awardee, Bellono Lab, Harvard MCB. Sensory physiologist.
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A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females
Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark
scim.ag
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
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Do flies feel pain?
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Do flies feel pain?
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social
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Pablo Villar, Ph.D. is our current featured fellow. Villar's research @harvardmcb.bsky.social focuses on signal transduction in octopus chemotactile receptors.
Why octopuses 🐙? Because they're awesome and have eight legs (usually), that's why! 1/
Why octopuses 🐙? Because they're awesome and have eight legs (usually), that's why! 1/
August 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Pablo Villar, Ph.D. is our current featured fellow. Villar's research @harvardmcb.bsky.social focuses on signal transduction in octopus chemotactile receptors.
Why octopuses 🐙? Because they're awesome and have eight legs (usually), that's why! 1/
Why octopuses 🐙? Because they're awesome and have eight legs (usually), that's why! 1/
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‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs have specialized depots in their cells that store photosynthetic equipment looted from algae
https://go.nature.com/3TMCgR7
https://go.nature.com/3TMCgR7
‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.
go.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs have specialized depots in their cells that store photosynthetic equipment looted from algae
https://go.nature.com/3TMCgR7
https://go.nature.com/3TMCgR7
Yay, Pablo!
Congrats to the 2025 JCC Symposium Poster Presentation Award Winners: Dr. Xinyu Ling, Dr. Pablo Villar, and Dr. Zhuoning Zou!!!
May 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yay, Pablo!
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MCB’s Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya Named 2025 Harvard Junior Fellows
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social
MCB’s Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya Named 2025 Harvard Junior Fellows - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Harvard has named Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya as two of its newest Junior Fellows, joining the prestigious Society of Fellows this year. They will begin […]
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April 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
MCB’s Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya Named 2025 Harvard Junior Fellows
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social
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Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Despite the madness we are, and will remain, out here ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Join us at the #BIBPS Meet and Greet at #BPS2025! 🚨
This networking event will feature a panel with Sharonda Leblanc, @cobarnes27.bsky.social and @doctheagrif.bsky.social! 🤩
Scan the QR code below to submit questions to our panelists 👇🏾
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This networking event will feature a panel with Sharonda Leblanc, @cobarnes27.bsky.social and @doctheagrif.bsky.social! 🤩
Scan the QR code below to submit questions to our panelists 👇🏾
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January 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Despite the madness we are, and will remain, out here ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Excited and honored to be selected as a @hhmi.bsky.social Hanna Gray Fellow! Incredibly grateful for the support from my PI, Nick Bellono.
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
January 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited and honored to be selected as a @hhmi.bsky.social Hanna Gray Fellow! Incredibly grateful for the support from my PI, Nick Bellono.