Eliza Jaeger
@ecbjaeger.bsky.social
Salamander Enthusiast 🦎 | Neuroscientist @Columbia_Bio 🧠 | @NSF GRFP PhD Student 🧬 | Tosches Lab @matosches 🔬| NS&B '22 @MBLScience
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New article from the lab out today, in which we discuss how social behavior evolves at the molecular level. From parenting across the animal tree of life to caste systems in social insects, it’s all connected (and, therefore, slowly starts to make sense)…
Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭l shorturl.at/g5OPw /1
Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality - Nature Reviews Genetics
Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecula...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New article from the lab out today, in which we discuss how social behavior evolves at the molecular level. From parenting across the animal tree of life to caste systems in social insects, it’s all connected (and, therefore, slowly starts to make sense)…
Reposted by Eliza Jaeger
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant.
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant.
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons
In the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
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Please mark your calendars and join us next May 20th in the next session of the webinar series "The future of Neuroethology". We will have a line-up of amazing scientists as usual, we will learn about locusts, newts and cichlids!
April 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Please mark your calendars and join us next May 20th in the next session of the webinar series "The future of Neuroethology". We will have a line-up of amazing scientists as usual, we will learn about locusts, newts and cichlids!
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Had the most amazing time at the HHMI Janelia campus showing some of my work at the Genetic Tools for New Model Organisms conference!! Thanks to the organizers and @hhmi.org for such a great experience!
March 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Had the most amazing time at the HHMI Janelia campus showing some of my work at the Genetic Tools for New Model Organisms conference!! Thanks to the organizers and @hhmi.org for such a great experience!
Reposted by Eliza Jaeger
Calling all neuroscientists! 🧠 The MBL's 2025 Neural Systems & Behavior course is accepting applications until February 1. Don't miss your chance to apply!
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#ScienceStartsHere
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January 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Calling all neuroscientists! 🧠 The MBL's 2025 Neural Systems & Behavior course is accepting applications until February 1. Don't miss your chance to apply!
Read more: bit.ly/4jetcAc
#ScienceStartsHere
Read more: bit.ly/4jetcAc
#ScienceStartsHere