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Marco Podobnik

@mpodobnik.bsky.social

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Walter Benjamin Fellow at @armilabs.bsky.social‬ Melbourne interested in all things developmental, regenerative, and evolutionary biology. @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social alumnus. marcopodobnik.wordpress.com

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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Dear all, please join my @isrbio.bsky.social webinar on how danionin fishes grow skeletal muscle. Tomorrow via Zoom. Details here: isrbio.org/webinars

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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Beautiful work led by Yansong (Kevin) Lu on skeletal muscle growth in zebrafish, giant danio, Danionella cerebrum, and killifish. HCR, new image analysis tool, scRNA-seq, and CRISPR. New international collaborations between Uni Melbourne, NCVC/Osaka, Stanford & ARMI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New morphometric analysis tool developed by Lu et al. applied to skeletal muscle cross-sections of four different juvenile teleost fish species. Main finding: Mosaic hyperplasia, i.e., the addition of new myofibers in the deep myotome, is near-zero in the small Danionella but dramatically enhanced in the giant danio relative to the intermediate grower zebrafish, establishing this mode of hyperplasia as a main driver of skeletal muscle growth in differently sized fishes.

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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Happy to have contributed to this big story. We present new genome assemblies, genus-wide complementation and allele-specific expression analyses in hybrids between zebrafish and closely related Danio species with divergent pigment patterns. A vertebrate model genus for basic comparative biology.

Genus-wide one-way complementation assays in hybrids between zebrafish and closely related Danio species with divergent pigment patterns

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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A great community presenting at the 2025 Myogenesis Gordon Research Seminar & Conference in Barga, Italy. Thank you to the organizers for this fantastic meeting, and @dmmjournal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social for providing a travel grant.

Poster presentation at the 2025 Myogenesis Gordon Research Seminar & Conference in Barga, Italy.

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