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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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Fanny Gagliardi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PhD student<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fanny investigates the origin and diversification of mammalian tooth classes using morphometrics and developmental biology approaches. She is passionate about bats and will mainly focus on them before expanding to other groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sanaa El Fatmy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Master student<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanaa does her master 2 intership in Carnesecchi (IGMM) and Novelteeth labs. She investigates the evolution of hox genes and the evolution of the RNA binding domain of hox gene in drosophila, mice and bats. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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