What is the origin of our body? Our paper Cell shows that when a human embryo is one day old and comprises just two cells, only one cell will create most of the fetus in addition to placenta, while the other cell will create placenta.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Millipede aficionados — this summer (11 - 16 June), Dr. Bruce Snyder Bruce A. Snyder will be teaching a millipede identification course at Highlands Biological Station Highlands Biological Station Register here! highlandsbiological.org/summer-2024-ac…

We made it. One semester down as a new PI. Here is what’s on my mind
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We are thrilled to announce that MBL Director Nipam Patel has been elected to National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research!

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Many congrats to Nipam Patel Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) for this well-deserved recognition of his inspiring and elegant science

New paper out! We describe three new species of giant mealybugs from Mexico & Guatemala. You think spiders have a lot of eyes until you look at male Puto mealybugs. Some species have 18 eyes in total!

Pictured alive is Puto decorosus from California.
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A PhD after someone's name simply tells me they run a mage class in the MMRPG known as Life. Their spellbook (thesis) + apprenticeship (post-doc) is their magic skill tree point allocation. The quality of their spells are assured to some extent. Efficient character leveling, tbh.

My latest is out at Frontiers - Oncology. I present a new hypothesis for the molecular mechanism driving the evolutionarily remarkable processes of invasion and metastasis: the formation of new protein interactions.
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Fall armyworms are a corn pest, recently destroying crops in Africa and Asia. A gel filled with nematodes that can kill the pests outperforms chemical insecticides—with far fewer risks to human health and nature. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/5yRx50Ritpo