Aleksandra Marconi
@marconi_aleks
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Post-doc exploring how cichlid brains diversify 🧠 and all things evolution and development of neural crest in @evomorpholab 🐠🐟
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2018
Many moons ago I asked @emiliapsantos if she could help me study evo-devo of neural crest using African cichlids for my PhD… and the main results are now published in @MolBioEvol 🎉 Thank you @gregverne for joining this chapter of my fishy adventure 🐠
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RT @emiliapsantos: We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future…
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This work wouldn't be possible without continuous support of my PhD supervisor Emília @emiliapsantos and fantastic co-author Greg @gregverne, MPhil student Archie as well as our collaborators in Malawi and Cambridge - thank you! 🐠
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1/5 we compared embryonic transcriptomes of two species with divergent NC-derived phenotypes throughout early NC development
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Pre-print 🚨 neural crest development in #cichlids varies among closely-related species, including a functional divergence in sox10 paralogs - see the 🧵👇 for the roles of these genes have in generating iconic morphological diversity of Malawi cichlids
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Yesterday I passed my PhD viva! 🎉👩🏻🎓 pictured here with my supervisor @emiliapsantos and her PhD supervisor @WSalzburger - does this make me an F2?! Thank you everyone with whom I get to celebrate this achievement 🥳
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It's been almost 3 weeks since this chapter of my life has ended and I still can't believe what an adventure it was! Thank you @emiliapsantos for being there from day 1 and here is to all the exciting things yet to come! 🐠
Still cannot believe @marconi_aleks submitted her thesis🎉👏She was brave enough to join a 1 person lab & I couldn't have chosen a better buddy to start it with!Lots of cichlid neural crest goodness to come. In the meantime here's a happy Aleks with some of her cichlids. 🥳🎉🐟
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RT @CamZoology: Congratulations on the new paper! @marconi_aleks @emiliapsantos results show that rapidly evolving East African cichlids sh…
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Few months ago, we took #cichlid embryology to the next level... and now our results are published!🎉 Go to and (re-)learn how divergence in embryonic development between species contributes to morphological diversity 🐠🥚 @evomorpholab & @CamZoology
New pre-print alert 🚨 morphological variation between cichlid species manifests during early embryonic development 🐠🥚 or "show me a #cichlid embryo and I will tell you who they are". see 🧵below: @CamZoology @evomorpholab
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Today was my last day as graduate intern at @Cytiva’s Cambridge site - time to go back to my PhD! I will fondly remember past 6 months and how much I have grown as a scientist. Including learning that label maker in the hands of a lab manager can be a powerful weapon…
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RT @QuentinPaletta: New paper alert⚡️'ECLIPSE: Envisioning CLoud Induced Perturbations in Solar Energy' was published in Applied Energy! 🌤️…
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4/4 conclusion: the variation in dev processes concomitant with neural crest cell development (somitogenesis) & morphological divergence in NC-derived traits (pigmentation and craniofacial skeleton) implicates the role of variation in NC development in the cichlid diversification
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