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Donovan P. German

@dgerman.bsky.social

1.6K followers 836 following 454 posts

Professor, at a University in CA. Nutritional physiologist, anything having to do with guts, including the microbiome. Mostly in marine systems. Bassist. Rock+Funk. Gators fan. Posts are my own.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Here is Newton holding a red abalone at The Cultured Abalone Farm:

A man holding an abalone, which is a large marine snail.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One example from our lab of how basic science leads to new discoveries. In this case, in engineering. We can't kill basic science like this! It is spurning new Tesla Valve research!

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

An old one, but it still hits in my field: 🧪

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

These little guys are popping!

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I think you might like this Valentine’s card!

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My lab door

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is how I feel about McConnell's "no" vote on Hegseth: It is absolutely meaningless because we are all here at this point BECAUSE of McConnell.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

That there is part of the amino acid alignment of carboxyl ester lipase in the Monkeyface Prickleback. Notice anything? 🧪🤣

Amino acid alignment (a bunch of letters signifying the single letter amino acid symbols) of lipase genes from a fish species. Funnily, some of the sequence spells FART in a repeated pattern in a column.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Frank has arrived

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Apparently, I was BSky user #359,952. Had they not done that invitation only thing, it would have grown faster and been the place to be over Threads. Maybe it can still do it.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #359,952, Donovan P. German ‪@dgermanuci.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 24, 2023"

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

The hooding ceremony is one of the coolest things we get to do. Dr. Karina Brocco French and soon to be Dr. Matea Djokic received their hoods on Saturday. So proud and happy for them!!

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I am Donovan. I am a prof at UC Irvine. We study critters and their guts (and microbes!) to understand how animals make a living eating different things. We are interested in improving aquaculture. Our Nutritional Physiology lab is in southern California!

Lab group photo in the style of the Wes Anderson film "The Life Aquatic".

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I wasn’t at the Southwest Organismal Biology meeting yesterday, but doctoral candidate Nefertiti Smith Christman was! Sounds like she delivered a great talk.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

This is our lab photo: german.bio.uci.edu/images/2022_...

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

The collection site looks like this at low tide. Flip some rocks! Loads of cool fishies.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

A few things in this photo from out in the field. I am a nutritional physiologist who works on fish, especially those that live in the intertidal zone, like this rock prickleback, which is herbivorous. Although this pic is from Santa Cruz, CA, I am obviously a big Gators fan. Repping both coasts!

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

This tool is really fun!

Word cloud of article titles from the laboratory group of Donovan P. German at UC Irvine. Main terms are digestive, fishes, enzyme, herbivory.

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Donovan P. German @dgerman.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

There is my photo of that Te Papa squid from June 2022

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