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Anyi Mazo-Vargas

@anyimv.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at @DukeBiology. #NewPI #EvoDevo, gene regulation, adaptive traits, #Wnt signaling 🦋. 🧬🔬🧪. She/her/Ella

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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A full-circle moment: I gave a talk at #SOCOLEN, the conference where I delivered my first presentation as an undergraduate student! And I was able to see so many cool butterflies with new friends <3
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thinking about a #Postdoc and interested in writing a competitive fellowship proposal? Are you interested in developing independent research in #EvoDevo, functional #Genomics, and adaptation in #Lepidoptera? Let's talk! 🦋
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There is a straightforward mechanism for the public to comment. Former NIH program office Elizabeth Ginexi has written an exceptionally helpful guide on how to so, with detailed suggestions. 3/n elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Adding the “Eco” to the “Evo‐Devo”: A New Special Issue on Latin America Evo‐Devo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002… #EvoDevo
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Thanks @evodevopanam.bsky.social for the shout out, very happy to be part of this community.
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Butterfly Science World Cup is going to be in Latin America! 💃💃💃 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 #BOB
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT
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Noa Ottilie Borst @ottilie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)
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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
PASEDB community 🤩 We are excited to announce our first Research Webinar series called: ⭐️EvoDevo Mondays⭐️ Save the date - April 13 With our amazing speakers @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social and João Francisco Botelho Session chair Professor Natalia Pabón-Mora #PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass. Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination 1/n
A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🦋✂️🧬 🧪 New preprint! Led by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social CRISPR‑Cas9 knockouts of ABCG transporters across butterflies & moths reveal how pigment pathways shape color during development. #CRISPR #Lepidoptera #pigmentation Feedback welcome 👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
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Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies
Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat #EndlessFishMostBeautiful @evodevopanam.bsky.social
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Steven Van Belleghem @svbelleghem.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🔔Apply now!🔔 January 22 is the last day to apply to the MBL's 2025 Embryology course! This comprehensive overview of modern developmental biology is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior researchers. Learn more: bit.ly/3DKPMjH #ScienceStartsHere
Flyer for the MBL's 2025 Embryology course
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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression
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Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus
In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...
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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo
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Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems
Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Evodevo folks! This is the official account of the PASEDB. The top image is by Nikolay Kovalenko. www.panamevodevo.org
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Pan-Am Evo Devo (PASEDB)
Our next meeting will be July 22-25 at the  University of Miami in summer 2025, with satellite meetings on July 21. More details will be forthcoming!
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The flowers in the greenhouse 🦋🌱🧪
Passiflora caerulea flowerPassiflora incarnata flowerPassiflora foetida
 Aristolochia fimbriata
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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@mcgregorlab.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing a dispatch article discussing the latest work from @gavinrrice.bsky.social and @rebeizlab.bsky.social. You can find it over on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🌟 Introducing the Mazo-Vargas Lab @DukeU. 🌟 🧬 We employ #genetics, #functional-genomics, and #evodevo approaches to untangle the genetic basis of morphological adaptive traits.
Five members of the Mazo-Vargas laboratory are standing at the Duke University campus, with tiered grassy steps and autumn trees, under a sky with scattered clouds.
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zack chiang @zchiang.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
7 years ago, I met a junior fellow named Jason Buenrostro who blew me away with a vision of futuristic genomic technologies Today, we (Ajay Labade, Caroline Comenho) are excited to share our first steps into that future: Expansion in situ genome sequencing 1/
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
🧪🧬🔬❤️
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
🚨Job alert 🚨 Come and join us @DukeBiology Cohort hiring of 3️⃣ assistant Professors in Ecology, Evolution or Organismal Biology, with a focus on plant 🌴and/or fungal 🍄 biology. More info: biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs
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Job Opportunities
Any available positions within our department will be listed below. If no positions are listed, we are not currently seeking candidates.
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
@anyimv.bsky.social and I are hiring a lab manager at Duke! Emphasis on molecular labwork and organizational skills. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27895
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Birds in my birth city, Cali, Colombia. 🧪🦜 youtu.be/TRPJyciSaLo?...
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
🧪🦋🧬 Delving into the genetic coding of butterfly wings, we've found 'sketcher' and 'paint' genes. Now, a 'contrast' locus has emerged. Three labs have study a locus housing an lncRNA called 'ivory' and a miRNA involve in fine-tuning melanic pigmentation 🔥🔥🔥 check preprints 👇🏽🧪
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
🧪🧪🧪 🦋🦋🦋 😍
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
We discovered a #TAD boundary element between the #HOX genes Antp and Ubx. By disturbing this element genetically #CRISPR, we could observe a change in the expression of Ubx. This caused the 🦋 forewing to resemble a hindwing not only in color pattern but also in shape. So COOL 🔥🔥
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