I had a great time last week at the Basal metazoan workshop in Tutzing (formerly Hydra meeting). It was a pleasure to present my ongoing PhD work on how neuropeptide signaling drives animal morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.

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We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New insights into neurotransmitter evolution from a GPCR screen in Trichoplax, a neuron-less animal.

with Yanez-Guerra et al.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649542v1

Trichoplax has tryptamine, tyramine, and phenethylamine receptors […]

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