Leslie S. Babonis
@BabonisLeslie
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Assistant Professor at Cornell University studying the evolution of novelty. Will do biology for food. 'Ho·mol·o·gy' Noun: sharing common origin
Joined July 2019
The Babonis Lab seeks to hire a Research Associate. Applications are due 15 Dec 2024. For more details and to apply:
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RT @cnidofest: #cnidofest2024 is starting TODAY! We cannot wait to meet everyone! See you soon for some amazing science and epic reunions!…
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And they're off...go divers, go! Bring us some corals full of gametes!
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I'm already excited for next spawning season!
Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate gene function including gene knock-in positioning Astrangia as a powerful model for coral development and evolution. More here 👇:
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RT @ScientistJake: Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate ge…
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The Babonis Lab at Cornell University is hiring a full-time technician to start in January 2024 (or sooner). We use marine inverts to understand how novel traits arise. (And we have a confocal - eeek!) For details and to apply:
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Great opportunity to do some wild things with worms!
Hi SDB attendees. We are hiring! #SDB2023
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Fantastic opportunity to study cool cells from a cool organism in a cool lab!
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Not just for evodevo anymore! Stella is so versatile 😍 Lovely work!
Congrats to PhD student @ben_glass_ on his first 1st author paper! We used the starlet sea anemone to test if parental exposure to ocean acidification alters reproduction &/or offspring performance #OA @imkristenbrown @SpeerKelsey @BiologyOpen @PennBiology
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So beautiful . I swoon every time I see it!
It's #3DDay! Take a look inside the jellyfish's sting with this 3D reconstruction of the sea anemone's stinging organelle. This shows how the stinger is precisely packaged inside the cell, ready to deploy in an instant. Learn more: #innovation #discovery
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The #BabonisLab is hiring a postdoc to study the evolution of novelty. Come work with us on cool questions in cool critters (like this octocoral!) For more info: To apply:
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@TheFrancoLab @hej_cell Lololol! I've never seen one with legs - must be a shh gain-of-function mutation?
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So excited to see this paper come out! We show a single gene controls the development of the harpoon in stinging cells (nematocytes) and suggest harpoon morphology evolved convergently across cnidarians. @ebardot (our editor) was incredibly helpful in bringing it all together
Work from @BabonisLeslie shows a simple switch controls the development of two alternative types of stinging cells in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. @Whitney_Lab @CornellEEB
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Can't wait for cnidofest!
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