I am currently intensifying the planning and development of my intended postdoc project, with visits to two research groups in the coming few weeks. I am very happy to spend my birthday in Dominic Wright’s group at Linköping University, on May 12, and then and join the Cresko Lab with Bill Cresko, Susie Bassham, Clay Small, and Allison Fuiten at the University of Oregon in early June. We will all chat about cool future studies, making use of an organism with extreme adaptations – the pipefish – and one of the foremost biological model systems – the zebrafish.

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