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Tessa Blanchard @tblanchard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited to share another paper from work I did during my PhD with @trishschulte.bsky.social and @madisonearhart.bsky.social. We looked at how fish embryos respond differently to constant and fluctuating temperatures! 🐟

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New lake sturgeon work out investigating transcriptional shifts in the gill during early development mRNA changes associated with histone modifications, DNA methylation, and apoptosis were conserved across both populations, as well as population-specific processes 🧪🌎🌐🐠 tinyurl.com/bdekwzed

Different process which changed in the gill of lake sturgeon during early development.

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

these REUs are so crucial for undergraduates to get to do science, for their careers, and for all of us because undergraduates are our future and we need to support and nurture their brilliance ~ this is heartbreaking 💔 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎

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Tessa Blanchard @tblanchard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Another paper from my PhD where we looked at the short and long term effects of raising embryos at two different temperatures 🐟 Interestingly hypoxia tolerance but not thermal tolerance was shown to be altered in juveniles.

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How do early developmental conditions affect stressor resilience in fish later in life? We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑 We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼

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Exposure to sub-optimal temperature during early development decreases hypoxia tolerance in juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus

Summary: Exposing Fundulus heteroclitus to a sub-optimal temperature during development reduces hypoxia tolerance but increases hif1α expression in juvenile fish and has no effect on thermal tolerance...

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

please fill out this form if you are a part of AFS or fisheries science in general, they are also voting to remove CLIMATE CHANGE from their 5 year plan - absolutely horrendous behavior 🧪🌎🐠

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Tessa Blanchard @tblanchard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Survived my first ever term as a Lecturer, even though I still have lots to learn, my students are what made the class so enjoyable to teach. My biggest takeaway from teaching is to show students you care, and to that I look forward to what next semester brings.

two notes from students to say thank you with two chocolate bars.

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Tessa Blanchard @tblanchard.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

After almost 6 years of work, I have officially turned in my PhD thesis 🎉

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Firas Moosvi, PhD @firas.moosvi.com · 09/12/2023

The Alternative Grading SoTL linkage grant I’m working on with @drceleste.bsky.social (and many others) has FINALLY had the Ethics application approved! 🥳 Time to start doing the work! isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/services/sot...

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2023 SoTL Linkage Grant Awardees | ISOTL

Many congratulations to our 2023 awardees for the first round of SoTL Linkage Grants! Breaking Barriers in Health Professions – Fostering Accessible and Inclusive Health Professions Higher Education...

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

@tblanchard.bsky.social & I are giving the SFU Biology department seminar tomorrow on how we implemented #ungrading. 🏫 📝 Come join us if you are in the area!! #SFU #UBC #highered #stem #edusky

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