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Alexa Sadier<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an evolutionary developmental biologist. My main interest is to understand how organisms evolve and diversify in various environments using integrative approaches. More specifically, my research aims to answers the following questions: How do novelties originate from conserved genomic and developmental programs? How do biological and developmental constraints limit or facilitate the diversification of phenotypes? How do organisms escape these constraints during adaptive radiations? To study these questions, we use the hyperdiverse radiation of bats as a model system, and more largely mammals and apply our findings to evolution of life on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n



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Taro Nojiri<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Postdoc<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taro is an evolutionary developmental biologist. His research focuses on the developmental process of the sound-related organs (larynx, ectotympanic, cochlea, middle ear ossicles, and central nervous system) and their evolutionary process in mammals. In the lab, he will use scRNAseq and morphological methods to study the evolution of the larynx in amniotes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Beno\u00eet Moison<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

IE \/ Senior Technician <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beno\u00eet studies the evolution of bat tooth shape in the adult and during development using CTscans and morphometrics. He is also in charge of maintaining our databases and collections. Outside of the lab, he is a musician playing sax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amandine Palandri<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Amandine is our lab manager. She works on the development of bat teeth and is responsible for implenting cutting edge techniques in the lab such as spatial transcriptomics, multiplex ISH and imaging. More broadly, she is also responsible for genotyping the bats present in our collections since 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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