The Blueprint of Life
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🦋 The Papa Lab, based in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 | Cracking the developmental blueprint of life through comparative multigenomics. We study two native butterflies—𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎 & 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑢𝑠—to understand how genes shape form and function.
The Papa lab on the hunt in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico!
July 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Papa lab on the hunt in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico!
Meet Camila Sánchez!
A postbac in Riccardo Papa’s lab studying wing development in 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 butterflies. Using FISH technique, she tracks where and when genes like Wnt3 are expressed—mapping the pathways that shape wing color patterns.
A postbac in Riccardo Papa’s lab studying wing development in 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 butterflies. Using FISH technique, she tracks where and when genes like Wnt3 are expressed—mapping the pathways that shape wing color patterns.
July 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Meet Camila Sánchez!
A postbac in Riccardo Papa’s lab studying wing development in 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 butterflies. Using FISH technique, she tracks where and when genes like Wnt3 are expressed—mapping the pathways that shape wing color patterns.
A postbac in Riccardo Papa’s lab studying wing development in 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 butterflies. Using FISH technique, she tracks where and when genes like Wnt3 are expressed—mapping the pathways that shape wing color patterns.