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Patrícia Ferreira
@patferreira.bsky.social
PostDoc fellow at UOttawa. 🐟
Fish physiology and ionoregulation
Knocking out genes one at a time.
#physiology
#CRISPR
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If you're interested in the integrative biology of the gut, don't miss our fantastic special issue dedicated to the topic, edited by Carol Bucking, John Terblanche and Matthew Regan

journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Read their introductory Commentary
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🚨 Call for Nominations: @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social PDF Chair 🚨

Interested in standing for election? Send me a short blurb (~200 words) about yourself and why you'd like to be elected! Deadline is Sept 30.

Don’t miss the chance to get involved!
September 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining.

Might be useful to other folks out there :)
Slide incubation box by hugoflavio.com | Download free STL model | Printables.com
www.printables.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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In their Commentary, Ferreira & co explore the repeated evolutionary loss of the stomach in fishes, describe how this affects their digestion, discuss our current understanding of how the stomach helps digest proteins and highlight unresolved questions

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
July 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I am very happy and grateful!!! 😊🐟🐡
Thank you so much for the opportunity to present this work and for the award! @sebiology.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social
Congratulations to Patricia Ferreira, the winner of this year's JEB sponsored YSAS award at the 2025 #SEBconference for their talk titled 'Will you miss me when I am gone? Gastric proton pump knockout and the importance of gastric acid in digestion, metabolism & growth in fish'
July 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#seb2025
Here we go!
July 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
July 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social !
A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
July 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Come meet the JEB Editors from 1-2pm 8 July in Marble Hall at the @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 conference & learn about all we do for our authors. It's also your first chance to pick up a FREE limited edition 2025 JEB T-shirt.

#SEBconference
June 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!
May 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz...
🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙
May 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
journals.biologists.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy
A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.
www.eurekalert.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Exiting the microscopy room
February 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience

bit.ly/4gR2N94
February 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Acoustic telemetry reveals the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is most active at night and relies on inshore waters, especially females. Small MPAs may not fully protect them. Larger MPAs and nighttime fishing bans could improve conservation. 🦈🌊

doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#sharks
Drivers of behaviour and spatial ecology of the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Shark populations have suffered dramatic declines across the world as a result of overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) can help restore overfished populations; however, their effectiveness la...
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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Pharyngeal jaws in fishes not a "key innovation" in this new comparative phylogenomics study.

"The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis" Borstein et al. 2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis - Nature Communications
Key innovations are traits that trigger the rapid evolution of new species occupying novel niches. Fresh genetic evidence reveals that the modified throat jaws of some fishes, thought to be a textbook...
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:36 AM