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Ben Hopkins

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Incoming Assistant Professor at University of Florida. Functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of organs. Currently @HFSP Long-Term Fellow @ucdavis | PhD @OxZooDept https://hopkins-lab.com/

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Kathy Darragh @handle.invalid · Sep 11

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks, Margarida!! Hope all is well with you!

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Kyle J McCulloch (he/him) @kypodseyepods.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested.

We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad!

Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

University of Florida - Details - Postdoctoral Associate

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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity - Nature

The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions.

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Stephen F. Goodwin @stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social · Jun 9

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages

Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · Jun 23

Huge congrats, Sam!

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cheers Bernard! Much appreciated. Hope to catch up with you at something soon!