A very Happy New Year to everyone - Pauli lab members, alumni, friends and collaborators around the world!
It’s already a little tradition to look back at the many happy memories of the past year by creating a little collage to capture the many positive happenings and fun encounters of 2024. Excited to see what 2025 will bring - may it be another happy, fun, successful and fulfilling year!
And just in time before the end of the year we received the fantastic news that our postdoc Amy has secured an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship for investigating how maternal age impacts embryonic development, using zebrafish as a model system. We are very curious to see what Amy will find out about this interesting new topic in our lab!
A big round of applause for Amy for securing this prestigious fellowship!
If you want to know more, here is a link to a news article about the award announcement.
And here the final paper-alert from the Pauli lab for 2024:
Andreas’s pre-print is out!
Andreas investigated sperm-egg compatibility in fish with a specific focus on Bouncer’s receptor on sperm, particular Izumo1 and Spaca6. Given our prior knowledge on the species-specific behavior of Bouncer in medaka and zebrafish, our initial expectation was that either Izumo1 and/or Spaca6 would behave similarly. However, biology is often more complicated ;-), and Andreas’s unexpected findings underscore the nuanced interplay between molecular restrictions and compatibilities during sperm-egg interaction across teleosts. As Andreas very nicely wrote in the discussion, “a picture of evolutionarily constrained sperm proteins and a more flexible egg protein emerges.”
Interested in knowing more? Check out Andreas’s pre-print here!
Big congrats to Andreas for leading all the work and write-up from start to end!
Find older news in the news archive.