Danielle Jordan
@djsnails.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, in the Sleight Lab 🐌 studying genes driving calcification in marine molluscs
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For today's quick sketches I got to draw sonic the hedgehog (which is a fabulous gene name)
I didn't manage to summarise all of @rorylcooper.bsky.social 's seminar today, but here we have sonic hedgehog inhibition pausing chicken embryo feather development at stage E9, and halting chicken embryo feather development at stage E11.
Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.
Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For today's quick sketches I got to draw sonic the hedgehog (which is a fabulous gene name)
First preprint from my PhD is out!
If molluscan developmental biology and genetics, gene-editing methodology in non-traditional model systems, or the function and conservation of pax6 interests you, please give it a read! 🐚🎉
If molluscan developmental biology and genetics, gene-editing methodology in non-traditional model systems, or the function and conservation of pax6 interests you, please give it a read! 🐚🎉
Gene editing without a genome: generation and validation of F0 CRISPR mutants in gastropod mollusc Crepidula fornicata https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690768v1
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
First preprint from my PhD is out!
If molluscan developmental biology and genetics, gene-editing methodology in non-traditional model systems, or the function and conservation of pax6 interests you, please give it a read! 🐚🎉
If molluscan developmental biology and genetics, gene-editing methodology in non-traditional model systems, or the function and conservation of pax6 interests you, please give it a read! 🐚🎉
Shucked stack of snails (say that five times fast)
December 5, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Shucked stack of snails (say that five times fast)
Exposed for my frantic 6 hour day of microinjecting crepidula embryos at @mblscience.bsky.social with @vs-marine.bsky.social. Heavy amounts of Ed Sheeran in the lab that day (Unofficial Sleight Lab Work music)
December 4, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Exposed for my frantic 6 hour day of microinjecting crepidula embryos at @mblscience.bsky.social with @vs-marine.bsky.social. Heavy amounts of Ed Sheeran in the lab that day (Unofficial Sleight Lab Work music)
Looking at this note my PI left on a waste bottle and thinking--what could it mean?
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Looking at this note my PI left on a waste bottle and thinking--what could it mean?
I'll be at the #MalacologicalSocietyofLondon meeting this Wednesday! If anyone is interested CRISPR/cas9, snails, and cool microscopy, images, come listen to my talk and have a chat with me!
November 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM
I'll be at the #MalacologicalSocietyofLondon meeting this Wednesday! If anyone is interested CRISPR/cas9, snails, and cool microscopy, images, come listen to my talk and have a chat with me!
Hello all! Joining Blue sky to engage with the scientific community and to talk about #snails follow for updates on my research and science-related shenanigans!
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Hello all! Joining Blue sky to engage with the scientific community and to talk about #snails follow for updates on my research and science-related shenanigans!