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Conrad Helm
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Assistant Professor at Animal Evolution & Biodiversity (Göttingen) - fascinated by worms and their larvae
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🎉Our paper on #Veneriserva, a fascinating endoparasitic polychaete with unique adaptations, is now published and OpenAccess. Hope you enjoy the read! 🌊🐭

🔗🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle an...
Endoparasitic annelids living inside another annelid host are known, particularly with regard to Oenonidae, but in general are poorly studied. The dorvilleid Veneriserva pygoclava is known from southe...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Conrad Helm
We are hiring and have a 4-year PhD position available at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen. Topic: Functional characterization of ctenophore neurons. Reposts are highly appreciated! Funded by the European Research Council (ERC). #ctenophores

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
January 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
News about crazy worms and the evolution of their appendages from our department: Palps across the tree – the neuronal innervation and development of sensory head appendages in Annelida; by Kalke et al.! doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1310225
January 8, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Conrad Helm
Interested in the evolution of multicellularity and cell differentiation?

Núria Ros-Rocher, James Gahan and I are organizing a symposium in Helsinki at @EED2024 next year! Abstract deadline at the end of January!

tinyurl.com/EEDHelsinki
December 21, 2023 at 6:01 PM