Icefish research

#icefish #biodiversity #ecology #scienceCommunication
https://www.icefishresearch.com/

Thriving Antarctic Ecosystems Found in Wake of Recently Detached Iceberg https://schmidtocean.org/thriving-antarctic-ecosystems-found-in-wake-of-recently-detached-iceberg/

"team on board #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s R/V Falkor (too) rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, covered by ice... they observed the #DeepSea for 8 days and found flourishing ecosystems at depths as great as 1300m. Their observations include large #corals and #sponges supporting an array of animal life, including #icefish, giant #SeaSpiders, and #octopus"

#IceFish Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he2BpVbsieY

#RangerBobRadio #yeg #yegmusic #yyc #Alberta #TravelAlberta #FiftyNorth #Canada 🍁

Hubs and I both had fish bites but we were unable to land them. Maybe tomorrow. #fish #icefish #michigan

today I watched:

Conducting the Neuro-Symphony in the Brain — Space, Time, and Calcium | Michael Friedlander, Ph.D.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Dcn2S5tlF3U?si=8p8mUjrJRI_Ob0Qp

#neuroscience #SynapticPlasticity #CalciumSignalling #DeepBrainStimulation #LongTermPotentiation
#LongTermDepression
#Icefish

Our most recent work has just been published early access in MBE.

Very excited to see this in print -- it represents more than five years of work from my lab and includes all of my students!

In, "Genomics of Secondarily Temperate Adaptation in the Only Non-Antarctic Icefish" we describe a new chromosome-level genome assembly for Champsocephalus esox, the *only* #icefish outside Antarctic waters.

The study was led by my student (and now postdoc) Angel Rivera-Colón.

https://www.igb.illinois.edu/article/cold-specialized-icefish-species-underwent-major-genetic-changes-it-migrated-temperate

Not much going on... Yet.
I prefer to #IceFish without these things. They make me impatient. But kids like them.

#Winter in #Minnesota. #LakeLife #IceFishing #Fishing #MNastodon

And finally, I went to the lake in my neighborhood to watch folks #IceFish and take in the scenery.
#AlaskaLife #SoldotnaAK

Icefishes are incredible and highly adapted to extreme cold (no haemoglobin or red blood cell). They form huge colonies with millions of nests, as the one discovered in Weddel sea. #science #biology #ecology #fish #icefish #polar
📄 Purser et al (2022) A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic. Current Biology 0 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022