Mirko Pegoraro PhD
@3volution.bsky.social
Lecturer in Epigenetics at LJMU. Focused on understanding Evolution at multiple levels. I am interested in Genetics, Epigenetics and Molecular Biology. 🐝🪰🦟🐜🦠🧬🌈he/him
Web: https://shorturl.at/WF8o3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EEL-2026
Web: https://shorturl.at/WF8o3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EEL-2026
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Super excited to share that I will start my lab at University of Oregon in Fall 2027!
We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders.
Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW!
ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders.
Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW!
ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
Faculty Page
ion.uoregon.edu
September 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Super excited to share that I will start my lab at University of Oregon in Fall 2027!
We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders.
Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW!
ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders.
Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW!
ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...
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🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟
Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters...
...or not?
Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters...
...or not?
Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
Born This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological Stress
We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟
Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters...
...or not?
Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters...
...or not?
Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
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TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
September 15, 2026 at 9:08 PM
TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
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"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
Assistant Professor Microbiology
The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...
spartantalent.uncg.edu
September 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
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Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections!
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CO2 is an important cue used by #mosquitoes when searching for a human blood meal. @darbly.bsky.social @megyounger.bsky.social &co show that the wiring of #neurons that sense CO2 differs from that in #Drosophila, allowing robust detection of this key host cue @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4cFCPpV
September 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections!
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My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
September 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
I am attending the 2026 @bsrageing.bsky.social conference: amazing talks, amazing people, extraordinary #science.
Learning so much about the biology of #ageing. 👦➡️👨🦳 🧬
Learning so much about the biology of #ageing. 👦➡️👨🦳 🧬
September 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I am attending the 2026 @bsrageing.bsky.social conference: amazing talks, amazing people, extraordinary #science.
Learning so much about the biology of #ageing. 👦➡️👨🦳 🧬
Learning so much about the biology of #ageing. 👦➡️👨🦳 🧬
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Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky
September 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky
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Did you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22
September 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Did you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22
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Frozen in permafrost for 46,000 years...
It was thawed in a lab dish and simply woke up, began eating, and started reproducing.
A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva🧪
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
It was thawed in a lab dish and simply woke up, began eating, and started reproducing.
A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva🧪
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
September 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Frozen in permafrost for 46,000 years...
It was thawed in a lab dish and simply woke up, began eating, and started reproducing.
A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva🧪
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
It was thawed in a lab dish and simply woke up, began eating, and started reproducing.
A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva🧪
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
😂😂😂
September 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
😂😂😂
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Neuromesodermal progenitor cells generate multiple tissues. This study by @abinagui.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social @cellysally.bsky.social &co maps their functional heterogeneity and links TF expression thresholds to #cellFate.
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4xWA8Ze
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4xWA8Ze
August 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Neuromesodermal progenitor cells generate multiple tissues. This study by @abinagui.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social @cellysally.bsky.social &co maps their functional heterogeneity and links TF expression thresholds to #cellFate.
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4xWA8Ze
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4xWA8Ze
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Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan reveal large body size🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shows Denisovan population at northern circle had larger body size than earlier H. erectus and Late Pleistocene H. sapiens in east Asia
Study also suggests large Denisovan brain resulted partly from body size
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shows Denisovan population at northern circle had larger body size than earlier H. erectus and Late Pleistocene H. sapiens in east Asia
Study also suggests large Denisovan brain resulted partly from body size
August 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan reveal large body size🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shows Denisovan population at northern circle had larger body size than earlier H. erectus and Late Pleistocene H. sapiens in east Asia
Study also suggests large Denisovan brain resulted partly from body size
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shows Denisovan population at northern circle had larger body size than earlier H. erectus and Late Pleistocene H. sapiens in east Asia
Study also suggests large Denisovan brain resulted partly from body size
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There is a whole branch of humanity that we did not even know existed until a few years ago, yet their DNA is still walking around inside many of us today.
10 Surprising Facts About the Denisovans🏺🧪
dino-world.com/10-surprisin...
10 Surprising Facts About the Denisovans🏺🧪
dino-world.com/10-surprisin...
August 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
There is a whole branch of humanity that we did not even know existed until a few years ago, yet their DNA is still walking around inside many of us today.
10 Surprising Facts About the Denisovans🏺🧪
dino-world.com/10-surprisin...
10 Surprising Facts About the Denisovans🏺🧪
dino-world.com/10-surprisin...
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Shameful
This is utterly dispicable
"The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Shameful
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Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’
Suggests combination of incentives to publish and use of LLMs will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science🧪
arxiv.org/html/2607.17...
Suggests combination of incentives to publish and use of LLMs will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science🧪
arxiv.org/html/2607.17...
August 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’
Suggests combination of incentives to publish and use of LLMs will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science🧪
arxiv.org/html/2607.17...
Suggests combination of incentives to publish and use of LLMs will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science🧪
arxiv.org/html/2607.17...
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Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com!
A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Forgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com!
A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thinking about how plants and animals, who independently evolved multicellularity, both landed on the spatial expression of transcription factors as the way to figure out where all the parts go.
July 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Thinking about how plants and animals, who independently evolved multicellularity, both landed on the spatial expression of transcription factors as the way to figure out where all the parts go.
Shai-Hulud, the Maker 🪱
Non è che con tutto questo caldo poi arrivano i vermi della sabbia come su #Arrakis (Dune)?
July 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Shai-Hulud, the Maker 🪱
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"‘Major victory’: Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in everyday products ahead of EU"
www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
Sweden to ban cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ sooner than EU
Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in kitchen appliances and clothing by 2028. When will the EU follow suit?
www.euronews.com
July 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"‘Major victory’: Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in everyday products ahead of EU"
www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
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7 People Who Saved the Most Lives in History
While tyrants may dominate public memory, there are many heroes who helped mankind and saved millions of lives.
www.thecollector.com/people-saved...
#history
Florence Nightingale
While tyrants may dominate public memory, there are many heroes who helped mankind and saved millions of lives.
www.thecollector.com/people-saved...
#history
Florence Nightingale
July 29, 2026 at 1:04 PM
7 People Who Saved the Most Lives in History
While tyrants may dominate public memory, there are many heroes who helped mankind and saved millions of lives.
www.thecollector.com/people-saved...
#history
Florence Nightingale
While tyrants may dominate public memory, there are many heroes who helped mankind and saved millions of lives.
www.thecollector.com/people-saved...
#history
Florence Nightingale
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Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award!
Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell
Jeffrey Farrell is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and ...
doi.org
July 26, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award!
Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
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It's not often single author primary research papers are published in our field & it's even rarer when the author is a Nobel Prize winner
Check out the new work by Eric Wieschaus in @dev-journal.bsky.social
Flattening maternal gradients in Drosophila embryo
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Check out the new work by Eric Wieschaus in @dev-journal.bsky.social
Flattening maternal gradients in Drosophila embryo
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Maternal patterning in early Drosophila embryos: how much information can single maternal gradients supply?
Highlighted Article: Comparison of the patterning capacity of Drosophila embryos that have only one of the three maternal gradients known to control anterior posterior patterning.
journals.biologists.com
July 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
It's not often single author primary research papers are published in our field & it's even rarer when the author is a Nobel Prize winner
Check out the new work by Eric Wieschaus in @dev-journal.bsky.social
Flattening maternal gradients in Drosophila embryo
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Check out the new work by Eric Wieschaus in @dev-journal.bsky.social
Flattening maternal gradients in Drosophila embryo
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...