Tessa Blanchard
@tblanchard.bsky.social
Lecturer @UBC
Developmental and Animal Physiologist 🐟
Passion for teaching 👩🏫
Developmental and Animal Physiologist 🐟
Passion for teaching 👩🏫
Excited to share another paper from work I did during my PhD with @trishschulte.bsky.social and @madisonearhart.bsky.social. We looked at how fish embryos respond differently to constant and fluctuating temperatures! 🐟
Atlantic killifish are robust little fish, but now @tblanchard.bsky.social & co reveal that fluctuating temperatures while the embryos are developing in the egg can have beneficial and damaging consequences
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Excited to share another paper from work I did during my PhD with @trishschulte.bsky.social and @madisonearhart.bsky.social. We looked at how fish embryos respond differently to constant and fluctuating temperatures! 🐟
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
here is the paper link!!! :
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This was a team effort 🫶🏼 with @wbuggiii.bsky.social, @biomatt.bsky.social, @trishschulte.bsky.social, and bluesky-less Gary and Ken
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This was a team effort 🫶🏼 with @wbuggiii.bsky.social, @biomatt.bsky.social, @trishschulte.bsky.social, and bluesky-less Gary and Ken
Transcriptomic signatures associated with developmental transitions in the gill of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
The developmental transition from the larval to juvenile stage, represents one of the highest periods of mortality for many species of fish. Thus, und…
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April 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
here is the paper link!!! :
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This was a team effort 🫶🏼 with @wbuggiii.bsky.social, @biomatt.bsky.social, @trishschulte.bsky.social, and bluesky-less Gary and Ken
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This was a team effort 🫶🏼 with @wbuggiii.bsky.social, @biomatt.bsky.social, @trishschulte.bsky.social, and bluesky-less Gary and Ken
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
New lake sturgeon work out investigating transcriptional shifts in the gill during early development
mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes
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tinyurl.com/bdekwzed
mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes
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tinyurl.com/bdekwzed
April 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New lake sturgeon work out investigating transcriptional shifts in the gill during early development
mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes
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tinyurl.com/bdekwzed
mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes
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tinyurl.com/bdekwzed
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
these REUs are so crucial for undergraduates to get to do science, for their careers, and for all of us because undergraduates are our future and we need to support and nurture their brilliance ~ this is heartbreaking 💔
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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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Cancellation megathread
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February 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
these REUs are so crucial for undergraduates to get to do science, for their careers, and for all of us because undergraduates are our future and we need to support and nurture their brilliance ~ this is heartbreaking 💔
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Another paper from my PhD where we looked at the short and long term effects of raising embryos at two different temperatures 🐟
Interestingly hypoxia tolerance but not thermal tolerance was shown to be altered in juveniles.
Interestingly hypoxia tolerance but not thermal tolerance was shown to be altered in juveniles.
How do early developmental conditions affect stressor resilience in fish later in life?
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
Exposure to sub-optimal temperature during early development decreases hypoxia tolerance in juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus
Summary: Exposing Fundulus heteroclitus to a sub-optimal temperature during development reduces hypoxia tolerance but increases hif1α expression in juvenile fish and has no effect on thermal tolerance...
doi.org
February 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Another paper from my PhD where we looked at the short and long term effects of raising embryos at two different temperatures 🐟
Interestingly hypoxia tolerance but not thermal tolerance was shown to be altered in juveniles.
Interestingly hypoxia tolerance but not thermal tolerance was shown to be altered in juveniles.
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
How do early developmental conditions affect stressor resilience in fish later in life?
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
Exposure to sub-optimal temperature during early development decreases hypoxia tolerance in juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus
Summary: Exposing Fundulus heteroclitus to a sub-optimal temperature during development reduces hypoxia tolerance but increases hif1α expression in juvenile fish and has no effect on thermal tolerance...
doi.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
How do early developmental conditions affect stressor resilience in fish later in life?
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐🦑
We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
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they are also voting to remove CLIMATE CHANGE from their 5 year plan - absolutely horrendous behavior
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they are also voting to remove CLIMATE CHANGE from their 5 year plan - absolutely horrendous behavior
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Ocean science friends! The American Fisheries Society is planning on removing certain words like inclusivity and safety from their 5 year plan. They are voting on this on Thursday, so please share your dissent and fill out the form here. Please also share! #oceansci docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
5-Year Strategic Plan Development Feedback Form
AFS's strategic planning committee, a group of volunteers charged with designing a document intended to guide the Society for 5 years, recently released its final draft to the Governing Board for comm...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
please fill out this form if you are a part of AFS or fisheries science in general,
they are also voting to remove CLIMATE CHANGE from their 5 year plan - absolutely horrendous behavior
🧪🌎🐠
they are also voting to remove CLIMATE CHANGE from their 5 year plan - absolutely horrendous behavior
🧪🌎🐠
Survived my first ever term as a Lecturer, even though I still have lots to learn, my students are what made the class so enjoyable to teach. My biggest takeaway from teaching is to show students you care, and to that I look forward to what next semester brings.
December 6, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Survived my first ever term as a Lecturer, even though I still have lots to learn, my students are what made the class so enjoyable to teach. My biggest takeaway from teaching is to show students you care, and to that I look forward to what next semester brings.
After almost 6 years of work, I have officially turned in my PhD thesis 🎉
January 25, 2024 at 10:46 PM
After almost 6 years of work, I have officially turned in my PhD thesis 🎉
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
The Alternative Grading SoTL linkage grant I’m working on with @drceleste.bsky.social (and many others) has FINALLY had the Ethics application approved! 🥳
Time to start doing the work!
isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/services/sot...
Time to start doing the work!
isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/services/sot...
2023 SoTL Linkage Grant Awardees | ISOTL
Many congratulations to our 2023 awardees for the first round of SoTL Linkage Grants! Breaking Barriers in Health Professions – Fostering Accessible and Inclusive Health Professions Higher Education...
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December 9, 2023 at 7:32 PM
The Alternative Grading SoTL linkage grant I’m working on with @drceleste.bsky.social (and many others) has FINALLY had the Ethics application approved! 🥳
Time to start doing the work!
isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/services/sot...
Time to start doing the work!
isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/services/sot...
Reposted by Tessa Blanchard
@tblanchard.bsky.social & I are giving the SFU Biology department seminar tomorrow on how we implemented #ungrading. 🏫 📝
Come join us if you are in the area!! #SFU #UBC #highered #stem #edusky
Come join us if you are in the area!! #SFU #UBC #highered #stem #edusky
September 24, 2023 at 4:07 PM
@tblanchard.bsky.social & I are giving the SFU Biology department seminar tomorrow on how we implemented #ungrading. 🏫 📝
Come join us if you are in the area!! #SFU #UBC #highered #stem #edusky
Come join us if you are in the area!! #SFU #UBC #highered #stem #edusky