Dennis Lavrov
@dlavrov.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist | Connoisseur of sponges | Professor @ Iowa State University | Associate Editor for Genome Biology and Evolution
Lab website: https://lavrovlab.github.io |
#Evolution | #Phylogenetics | #Porifera | #Mitochondria |
Lab website: https://lavrovlab.github.io |
#Evolution | #Phylogenetics | #Porifera | #Mitochondria |
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Was reading this earlier today - such an important advance!
A big day for preventing mitochondrial diseases from transmitting to the next generation
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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July 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Was reading this earlier today - such an important advance!
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep
Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep
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Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
Sloan Lab
Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
sites.google.com/site/danielb...
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Yep- the bogus summer reading list from the Chicago Sun Times is real. Here I am with it from a few minutes ago.
(Support your local library!!)
(Support your local library!!)
May 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yep- the bogus summer reading list from the Chicago Sun Times is real. Here I am with it from a few minutes ago.
(Support your local library!!)
(Support your local library!!)
Congress is considering opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling in their latest government funding bill.
We can’t let this happen – demand that Congress rejects Arctic drilling in this bill.
👉 act.350.org/letter/may-2...
We can’t let this happen – demand that Congress rejects Arctic drilling in this bill.
👉 act.350.org/letter/may-2...
Tell Congress to reject Arctic drilling
The Trump EPA’s plan to roll back crucial climate and environmental regulations will dismantle decades of progress in reducing harmful climate pollution. It’s a giveaway to Big Oil, and it comes at ev...
act.350.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Congress is considering opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling in their latest government funding bill.
We can’t let this happen – demand that Congress rejects Arctic drilling in this bill.
👉 act.350.org/letter/may-2...
We can’t let this happen – demand that Congress rejects Arctic drilling in this bill.
👉 act.350.org/letter/may-2...
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TOMORROW!
Stand Up for Higher Education!
Join an action in your area!
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
Stand Up for Higher Education!
Join an action in your area!
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
TOMORROW!
Stand Up for Higher Education!
Join an action in your area!
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
Stand Up for Higher Education!
Join an action in your area!
@actioninhighered.bsky.social
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
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Nature reports on how researchers are studying why mitochondria are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases. 🧪
Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.
go.nature.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nature reports on how researchers are studying why mitochondria are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases. 🧪
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“I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation” at New College in the United States.
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida ‘countries of concern’ law
“I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation,” the fired professor said.
www.bradenton.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation” at New College in the United States.
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Detained in an ICE camp over a customs form technicality and facing deportation to Russia where she will be persecuted for vocal opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. She does bioinformatics
March 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Detained in an ICE camp over a customs form technicality and facing deportation to Russia where she will be persecuted for vocal opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. She does bioinformatics
Ames protest next Saturday: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
Hands Off! Ames Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** Ames is fighting back!
They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and d...
www.mobilize.us
March 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ames protest next Saturday: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
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This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
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🧪 Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV
https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV
First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Nature - Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
go.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🧪 Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV
https://go.nature.com/42j9YCV
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Calling all faculty across campuses nationwide: sign our petition to condemn ICE and DHS activity on campuses as well as the arrest and detention of Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Korda, Read and sign onto the rest of our statement: link here and in bio bit.ly/3XUwsHM
March 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Calling all faculty across campuses nationwide: sign our petition to condemn ICE and DHS activity on campuses as well as the arrest and detention of Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Korda, Read and sign onto the rest of our statement: link here and in bio bit.ly/3XUwsHM
Our article on unusual mtDNA evolution in a group of sponges has been published in GBE. Please let me know if you have any comments or notice any errors. #mitochondria #Porifera #tRNA
Pervasive mitochondrial tRNA gene loss in the clade B of haplosclerid sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae)
Abstract. Mitochondrial tRNA gene loss and cytosolic tRNA import are two common phenomena in mitochondrial biology, but their importance is often under-app
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February 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our article on unusual mtDNA evolution in a group of sponges has been published in GBE. Please let me know if you have any comments or notice any errors. #mitochondria #Porifera #tRNA
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Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
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Elated to share the PhyKIT protocols manuscript appeared on the cover of Current Protocols🥳🥳🥳
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February 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Elated to share the PhyKIT protocols manuscript appeared on the cover of Current Protocols🥳🥳🥳
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#mitochondria ... and you still call us powerhouses!
A post over a decade in the making… 🙌beyond excited to share our work out today in @science.org. We found that retrograde (mitonuclear) signaling regulates the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues.🧵 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Retrograde mitochondrial signaling governs the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues
Mitochondrial damage is a hallmark of metabolic diseases, including diabetes, yet the consequences of compromised mitochondria in metabolic tissues are often unclear. Here, we report that dysfunctiona...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
#mitochondria ... and you still call us powerhouses!
Also, they are hermaphroditic. If two tripodfish happen to meet, they mate. But if there is no partner, no problem: one fish can produce both sperms and eggs and reproduce by itself.
The tripodfish sits motionless on its elongated fins, waiting for food to drift by like an underwater existentialist. It’s not lazy, it’s just mastered efficiency. Your move, land animals. #marinelife
a picture of a fish with the words bye chat on the bottom
ALT: a picture of a fish with the words bye chat on the bottom
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February 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Also, they are hermaphroditic. If two tripodfish happen to meet, they mate. But if there is no partner, no problem: one fish can produce both sperms and eggs and reproduce by itself.
Not sure how this sponge feels being out of the water!
#Porifera
#Porifera
Some crabs carry living sponges on their backs like fashion accessories. The sponge provides camouflage, and the crab provides Uber service. High fashion meets functional biology. #marinelife #invertebrate
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not sure how this sponge feels being out of the water!
#Porifera
#Porifera
Cool #mitochondria (the rest is not bad either!)
Spectacular night skies, 700 species new to science, and mitochondria as you've never seen them before.
These are January's best science images, chosen by Nature's photo team 📸
https://go.nature.com/40WDvls
These are January's best science images, chosen by Nature's photo team 📸
https://go.nature.com/40WDvls
Mitochondria as you’ve never seen them — January’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
go.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Cool #mitochondria (the rest is not bad either!)
¡eso!
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
¡eso!
In case somebody else is freaking out :)
#SMBE2025
#SMBE2025
📢📢📢 #SMBE2025 Abstract Submission EXTENDED to Saturday, February 15, 2025
We also invite you to register at www.smbe2025.org
@SMBEmeetings
We also invite you to register at www.smbe2025.org
@SMBEmeetings
January 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In case somebody else is freaking out :)
#SMBE2025
#SMBE2025