Martik Chatterjee
Lepidoptera doctor 🧬 🐛 🦋 Interested in all things evolution, development, genomics and bugs 🪲 🐝 Postdoc. He/him 🌈
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- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeOnce it became clear that an ICE agent could commit murder in broad daylight with no consequences except the VPOTUS defending him with no heed to the facts and instead vilifying and prosecuting the victim, we opened the door to roving death squads. But there is no statute of limitations for murder.
- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeIf this is what they do to white American citizens in front of everyone, imagine what happens to non-white people behind closed doors.
- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeA new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV
- Reposted by Martik Chatterjee"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
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- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeIt's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social @lucalivraghi.bsky.social High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers peerj.com/articles/202... @peerj.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeMy first paper as a first author is officially out 🎉 @elife.bsky.social We show that the iridescent colour of Morphos 🦋 tends to converge in sympatry while their chemical signals diverge, illustrating the constrasting effect natural and sexual selection on trait evolution. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeOut now on the cover of @journal-evo.bsky.social! Led by Sarah Khalil, we took a genomic approach to investigate the hybrid zone between different-colored Red-backed Fairywren subspecies. We found some interesting candidate genes under selection. Check it out! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeLatest 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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- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeMy prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
- Reposted by Martik ChatterjeeOur false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Very excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis out in @elife.bsky.social : doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We discovered how the gene "mirror" is necessary for specifying the “vannus”, a unique domain in the posterior part of butterfly wings. 🦋🦋 (1/6) #CRISPR #butterfly #genomics
- The posterior part of wings in broad winged insects like butterflies has a lobe like region called “vannus” which is bordered by the anal (2A) vein. Across butterfly families, the vannus is usually characterized by distinct silver scales and devoid of color patterns like the rest of the wing. (2/6)
- "mirror" is not only expressed in this posterior region of the wing disc, but #CRISPR knockouts result in mosaics where the vannus is entirely lost or partially reduced accompanied by vein anomalies and the spread of color patterns! (3/6)
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View full threadAs thrilled as I am to share this, it wouldn’t have been possible without other members of @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social lab particularly Sydney Yu (not on Bluesky), a brilliant former undergrad whose honors thesis kicked off this discovery.Super grateful to have had her on this journey! (6/6)
