Sally Leys
@SallyLeys
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I'm a researcher at the University of Alberta focusing on all aspects of sea sponge Biology.
Joined June 2012
RT @MEPS_IR: Meet Belinda, the extraordinary sponge! 🧽✨ A Suberites concinnus in Barkley Sound, BC, Belinda responds to her environment wit…
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I think you would properly call this a 'kelp circle' but it's really an @BamfieldMSC Animals huddle in the beautiful pouring rain before we collect tideline critters. Winter is on its way!
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wow Jellyfish muscle! @BamfieldMSC Animals course students have made beautiful fluorescent stains of the actin that shows sarcomeres in the bell of Polyorchis penicillatus
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RT @SeafloorScience: Sternaspis scutata! Also known as the mud owl. Living in shallow soft sediment, it is characterised by two brown chiti…
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RT @SeafloorScience: Welcome to #NoVERMber! Starting off with a favourite: the Sand Striker worm! The latin name is Eunice aphroditois. 📸Sm…
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RT @AmandaSKahn: Great research by @SallyLeys and presented by @okay_vanessaho on #Belinda, the most watched sponge in the world by @Ocean_…
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RT @SANICHOLS_DU: Very happy to announce the lab's latest paper is finally out! From the excellent PhD thesis of @ColgrenJeffrey. https://t…
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Really happy to have been included in this super cool study by Niklas Kornder, Jasper de Goeij and team - sponges sneeze snot - and wastes - out their incurrent pores!
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RT @UlrichTechnau: PhD position available in our group. The PhD candidate will explore single cell genomics data, generate transgenic and C…
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@natclarke8 Could be - also when I say yolk...it could be lectins I think, but some symbionts in some fw sponges are a bit like that too and definitely auto-fluorescent in the red-far red. Need some TEM I think to start with...
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@RebeccaMVarney Does Clawdio have a sponge in his tank? Something green is covering the rock. Just couldn't help wondering! We once had a crayfish for 7 years!
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RT @echinoblog: I should note that all these videos of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo in Trieste are from 2021.. BUT apparently they are ba…
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RT @MBARI_News: The tiny tunicate Oikopleura sp is completely transparent when not surrounded by one of its mucous houses. These snot struc…
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@anariesgogil @RestoreCAL mine's called 'stagnant' and it's fun to peek in there and find a treasure occasionally)
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Our comment on how flow goes through the #deepsea sponge Euplectella has just been published with @SpringerNature in @Nature. Read here: #sponge @ualbertaScience @BamfieldMSC
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