Besides our different larger project we also have smaller projects or papers going on, which we will discuss in this category.

Miscellaneous

Scientists in Action (SNAC)

Black coffee but also cookies, nuts, chocolate and fruits – certainly highly appreciated ingredients to support lively scientific discussions. This is also true for the recent SNAC discussions of scientific staff at the Natural History...
Crustacean Silk from under the Sea

Another paper involving a FEZ group member, this time about silk from a marine crustacean group! What can we learn from the history of the silk of the Tanaids, and how can it help us make better materials in the future?

Epictia subcrotilla, a scolecophidian snake, by Alessandro Catenazzi
A Story of Snakes and Sight (don’t we research invertebrates)?

Last week marked the release of a new paper by one member of the Invertomics group, James Fleming, in a field that seems quite far apart from the mission of the lab! “Eye-transcriptome and genome-wide sequencing for Scolecophidia: implications for inferring the visual system of the ancestral snake” was part of a long term collaboration that attempts to tackle one of the long-standing questions in snake evolution – what kind of environment did the ancestral snake live in, and what did they look like?