Lowe Lab
@lowelab.bsky.social
Lowe lab at Stanford University | https://lowe.stanford.edu/
Dredging the mud for chordate origins | 🏳️🌈
Dredging the mud for chordate origins | 🏳️🌈
Great collaboration between @paulbump.bsky.social and @planaria1.bsky.social lab. Some really surprising findings for cell type turnover during hemichordate metamorphosis.
Excited to share our recent work from @lowelab.bsky.social on the intersection of life history and cell type evolution: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Great collaboration between @paulbump.bsky.social and @planaria1.bsky.social lab. Some really surprising findings for cell type turnover during hemichordate metamorphosis.
Want to be on the ground floor for exciting new insights into echinoderm body plan and life history evolution? Apply to this lab!!! Laurent Formery is just getting going and will be making key insights in this space. Banyuls is beautiful and has a great team working in deuterostome development.
I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳
We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution.
🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research
www.echinox.org
We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution.
🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research
www.echinox.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Want to be on the ground floor for exciting new insights into echinoderm body plan and life history evolution? Apply to this lab!!! Laurent Formery is just getting going and will be making key insights in this space. Banyuls is beautiful and has a great team working in deuterostome development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check out this new manuscript from Loh Lab at Stanford on the developmental origins of the vertebrate CNS.
Two parallel lineage-committed progenitors contribute to the developing brain
The hindbrain is a life-sustaining brain region. In one model, a common neural progenitor generates all brain regions. Here our studies of mouse embryos and human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) suppor...
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July 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check out this new manuscript from Loh Lab at Stanford on the developmental origins of the vertebrate CNS.
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Inspired by visits to Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social and Roscoff, we hope to welcome folks in #SunnyBergen to foster exchange and spark discoveries in Marine Life Sciences.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!
Introducing the Michael Sars Visitors Program
The Michael Sars Centre is launching a Visitors Program designed to foster scientific exchange and collaborations across disciplines.
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June 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Inspired by visits to Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social and Roscoff, we hope to welcome folks in #SunnyBergen to foster exchange and spark discoveries in Marine Life Sciences.
This is one of the best parts of the job - seeing talented, hard-working people being recognized and given the opportunity to start their own groups. Laurent is just getting started on echinoderms.... talented ambitious people on the lookout for a position in a great new lab.... stay tuned.
I am honored and beyond happy to share that I have been awarded an @inserm.fr #ATIP-Avenir fellowship to start my own lab to study body plan evolution in #echinoderms 🤩
Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!
June 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is one of the best parts of the job - seeing talented, hard-working people being recognized and given the opportunity to start their own groups. Laurent is just getting started on echinoderms.... talented ambitious people on the lookout for a position in a great new lab.... stay tuned.
I really love my new colleague at Hopkins, here shown in her element on the last day of her new imaging mini course at Hopkins. Vanessa Barone is such an amazing addition to the faculty in Biology and Hopkins
June 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I really love my new colleague at Hopkins, here shown in her element on the last day of her new imaging mini course at Hopkins. Vanessa Barone is such an amazing addition to the faculty in Biology and Hopkins
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Check out our latest work‼️Fantastic study with really cool data and findings led by @allancarbal.bsky.social in collaborarion with Stephan’s lab. The one and many ways of getting a belly…
It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱
#DevBio #EvoDevo
#DevBio #EvoDevo
June 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Check out our latest work‼️Fantastic study with really cool data and findings led by @allancarbal.bsky.social in collaborarion with Stephan’s lab. The one and many ways of getting a belly…
Want a growing and awesome community studying fundamentals in developmental and cell biology using emerging marine models. Apply for this postdoc.
Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
June 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Want a growing and awesome community studying fundamentals in developmental and cell biology using emerging marine models. Apply for this postdoc.
Excellent developmental biology symposium at Hopkins today organized by Vanessa Barone. Guest speaker Jake Warner with Stanford and Biohub faculty. Really great talks and discussion.
May 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Excellent developmental biology symposium at Hopkins today organized by Vanessa Barone. Guest speaker Jake Warner with Stanford and Biohub faculty. Really great talks and discussion.
@endofthepier.bsky.social I just saw this review of your new book from Eric Idle. I would retire - doesn't get better than that.
April 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@endofthepier.bsky.social I just saw this review of your new book from Eric Idle. I would retire - doesn't get better than that.
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My first view of the finished book.
The Tree of Life. #treeoflife @johnmurrays.bsky.social.
Out 24th April. Can preorder now from all good bookshops.
And please feel free to Repost!!
(Sound up to hear me make a weird high pitched wookie growl.)
The Tree of Life. #treeoflife @johnmurrays.bsky.social.
Out 24th April. Can preorder now from all good bookshops.
And please feel free to Repost!!
(Sound up to hear me make a weird high pitched wookie growl.)
March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My first view of the finished book.
The Tree of Life. #treeoflife @johnmurrays.bsky.social.
Out 24th April. Can preorder now from all good bookshops.
And please feel free to Repost!!
(Sound up to hear me make a weird high pitched wookie growl.)
The Tree of Life. #treeoflife @johnmurrays.bsky.social.
Out 24th April. Can preorder now from all good bookshops.
And please feel free to Repost!!
(Sound up to hear me make a weird high pitched wookie growl.)
Another beautiful paper from @laurentformery.bsky.social . This species, A.squamata, is a viviparous brooder - juveniles year round. Near and dear to my heart as I worked on it for my thesis. Laurent took it to another level. First installment of a new series of papers he is working on.
If you like snowflakes, check our new preprint about axial patterning in brittle stars ⭐
We looked at the expression of anteroposterior patterning genes in Amphipholis squamata juveniles, and compared it with existing data from other classes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We looked at the expression of anteroposterior patterning genes in Amphipholis squamata juveniles, and compared it with existing data from other classes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@lowelab.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Another beautiful paper from @laurentformery.bsky.social . This species, A.squamata, is a viviparous brooder - juveniles year round. Near and dear to my heart as I worked on it for my thesis. Laurent took it to another level. First installment of a new series of papers he is working on.
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How did vision evolve? In our latest study, we show that:
Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group
A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group
A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A Pre-Bilaterian Origin of Phototransduction Genes and Photoreceptor Cells
The evolution of vision is a major novelty in animals, playing a fundamental role in developing complex behaviours. Vision initiates with a light-triggered phototransduction cascade occurring in photo...
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February 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
How did vision evolve? In our latest study, we show that:
Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group
A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group
A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Delighted to open up our new imaging center at Hopkins. This is part of an initiative supported by Stanford Humanities and Sciences to leverage marine biodiversity for biological insights.
February 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Delighted to open up our new imaging center at Hopkins. This is part of an initiative supported by Stanford Humanities and Sciences to leverage marine biodiversity for biological insights.
Returning to Moorea for regeneration experiments in the rainy season. Turns out they really mean it. It has been chucking down for a week. Luckily the worms don't care, and Ivan and Albert are troopers.
January 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Returning to Moorea for regeneration experiments in the rainy season. Turns out they really mean it. It has been chucking down for a week. Luckily the worms don't care, and Ivan and Albert are troopers.
Happy holidays.
Time to recycle this xmas brittle star HCR ⭐
Happy holidays all!! ❄️🎁🎄
Stay tuned for some more brittle star data coming soon 😎
#fluorescence #microscopy #HCR #holidays #imaging
Happy holidays all!! ❄️🎁🎄
Stay tuned for some more brittle star data coming soon 😎
#fluorescence #microscopy #HCR #holidays #imaging
December 25, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Happy holidays.
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🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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December 17, 2024 at 7:52 PM
🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
I highly recommend motivated and curiosity-driven students interested in evolutionary cell/developmental biology take a hard look at Nat Clarke's lab. He is an amazing scientist and mentor. I would apply to his lab if I was starting again. Take a look now before his lab fills up.
I will be hiring at all levels – postdoc, technician/research specialist, and PhD. If you are interested in exploratory science and organismal cell biology, please get in touch! (If you are applying to grad school right now, UM applications are still open!)
December 17, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I highly recommend motivated and curiosity-driven students interested in evolutionary cell/developmental biology take a hard look at Nat Clarke's lab. He is an amazing scientist and mentor. I would apply to his lab if I was starting again. Take a look now before his lab fills up.