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Robin Pranter
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Evolution, development and developmental evolution. Neural crest cells, color patterns and the evolution of phenotypic syndromes. Postdoc at Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
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🧪 New paper out! Growing up, wall lizards undergo a UV-visible “awkward phase” (who doesn’t?) that we can’t see—but they can. These ontogenetic color changes may mediate juvenile–adult interactions by delaying the onset of adult social signals. doi.org/10.1002/jez.... #colsci #lizard #ontogeny
Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)
Wall lizards' ventral coloration undergoes cryptic ontogenetic color changes invisible without UV vision. We tracked wall lizards from hatching to one year of age. Spectrophotometry and visual modeli...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇
September 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
How does cell end developmental biology inform our understanding of evolution? Join us for an afternoon of discussion about #cells, #development, #plasticity and #evolution.
Zoomlink Sep 25th: lu-se.zoom.us/j/62473328732
Zoomlink Sep 26th: lu-se.zoom.us/j/67411449026
#EvoDevo @biologylu.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Evolution of developmental bias explains divergent patterns of phenotypic evolution in two nematode clades

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evolution of developmental bias explains divergent patterns of phenotypic evolution in two nematode clades | PNAS
Rates of phenotypic evolution vary across traits, and these evolutionary patterns themselves evolve. Understanding how development contributes to s...
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August 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join us on the 26/9 in Lund for a symposium about #evolution #stemcells #development #EvoDevo and #plasticity
August 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.
July 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Now online ‪Communications Biology!‬ We showed that variation aligns across biological levels. We proposed that #macroevolution mould #developmentalbias with a cascading effect on variation. #Microevolution, then, may be a result—not a cause of—macroevolution. nature.com/articles/s42...
July 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
June 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Paper in Focus:

Morphospace Exploration Using a General Model of Development Reveals a Basic Set of Morphologies for Early Animal Development and Evolution

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Morphospace Exploration Using a General Model of Development Reveals a Basic Set of Morphologies for Early Animal Development and Evolution
This work used the model EmbryoMaker to explore the most basic set of morphologies that can be produced from spherical initial conditions by activating cell properties and behaviors in simple genetic...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🚨Job alert in theory/math devbio 🚨
I’m currently advertising postdoc positions to join my group. We’re building reaction-diffusion models to understand some of the crazy things embryos can do. We are based in a beautiful part of Scotland :). Please share! www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...
June 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Also, our study, "PMEL is involved in snake #colourpattern transition from blotches to stripes," shows how a #PMEL mutation causes striped patterns in corn #snakes.
Excited to see these findings drive trait #diversification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🐍🧬 #EvoDevo @naturecomms.bsky.social
PMEL is involved in snake colour pattern transition from blotches to stripes - Nature Communications
Corn snakes are a useful model organism for studying skin pigmentation. Here they characterize the Terrazzo morph and identify the role of PMEL in the patterning of pigmented cells in the skin, explai...
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Super fun to se my photo on the cover of the latest issue of Developmental Dynamics. Sox10 expression in a common wall lizard embryo in somite stage 37 visualized with in situ hybridization. #EvoDevo #NeuralCrest #DevBio
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
June 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We developed a transgene-free method to isolate neural crest cells using antibody labelling + FACS — tested in Podarcis muralis. It works as well as transgenic tools, opening doors for NCC research in non-model species! Link in comment.
#DevBio #scRNAseq #NeuralCrest #EvoDevo
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM