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Recent Posts
- Scaling up functional analyses of the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin March 13, 2024
- Evolution of a novel regulatory mechanism for hypoxia tolerance in electric fishes March 13, 2024
- Multiple ecological axes drive molecular evolution of cone opsins in Beloniform fishes March 13, 2024
- Adaptive evolution of nearctic deepwater fish vision: implications for assessing functional variation for conservation March 13, 2024
- Convergent Evolution of Dim Light Vision in Owls and Deep-Diving Whales November 28, 2023
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Context Matters: Epistasis in a Whale Visual Gene
Does a genetic mutation in one organism have the same effect in another from a different species? New research from Ph.D. candidate Sarah Dungan in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences highlights a case where parallel genetic changes … Continue reading
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Capturing coding-sequences across divergent species
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ryan Schott who published a novel approach for capturing full-length coding-sequences in Genome Biology and Evolution!
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Cone-like rhodopsin in the all-cone Colubrid retina
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Nihar Bhattacharyya and Ryan Schott for their new paper on in the Journal of Experimental Biology! The study is highlighted in an “Inside JEB” feature, and is the current “Editor’s choice”!
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SMBE 2017
We are proud to announce that Belinda Chang has been elected to the SMBE council! Belinda has also been nominated as an Editor for the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. Congratulations Belinda! Congratulations also to Ph.D. candidate Eduardo de Almeida Gutierrez, … Continue reading
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Chang Lab Presentations at Evolution 2017
Our lab’s talks and posters at Evolution 2017 were a big success! Recorded talks will be available soon. Congratulations everyone! Functional changes in bat dim-light visual pigment evolution are associated with differing echolocation abilities. Eduardo de Almeida Gutierrez, Gianni M. Castiglione, … Continue reading
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Three new publications: Protein Science, Nature Communications, and Journal of Experimental Biology
We have three new publication announcements to make, covering the last two papers of 2016, and the first of 2017. In 2016, Chang Lab members in collaboration with Professor John A. Endler (Deakin University) published “A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Gianni on a successful PhD defense!
On October 12, 2016, lab member Gianni Castiglione successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Functional Characterization and Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of Rhodopsin in Fishes and other Vertebrates”. Dr. Castiglione will continue his work in the Chang lab as a Post-Doc. … Continue reading
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Two new publications: Mitochondrial DNA and The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
From Elbassiouny et al. (in collaboration with Chang Lab members Ryan K. Schott, Alexander Van Nynatten, and B.S.W. Chang) in Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, is a mitogenome announcement entitled Mitochondrial genomes of the South American electric knifefishes (Order Gymnotiformes). Next, Gutierrez et … Continue reading
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Presentation recordings from Evolution 2016
Three of our presentations from the recent Evolution 2016 meeting in Austin were recorded, and their videos can be found below: From “Targeted hybrid enrichment of complete coding regions across divergent species” by authors Ryan Schott, Bhawandeep Panesar, and Belinda Chang, presented … Continue reading
Chang Lab presentations at Evolution 2016
A number of lab members will be in Austin from June 17-21 to present at the Evolution 2016 conference. This year’s talks and posters include: “Divergence of the dim light opsin gene in Neotropical cichlids reflects macroevolutionary transitions” by Frances Hauser, Ryan … Continue reading