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Belinda Chang's Lab

@opsinlab

Vision molecular evolution lab @UofT. We investigate natural variation in visual pigments in a variety of vertebrate groups.

 Toronto, Ontario
labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/chang/
Joined June 2015
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Emily Dong@EmilyMDong14 Jul 2022
Hello #SciTwitter! I’m a PhD Candidate at @UofTCellSysBiol studying eye evolution in snakes and lizards. Hoping to connect with more folks exploring the world of #developmentalbiology and #evolution in #reptiles!
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Emily Dong@EmilyMDong17 Jul 2022
Why lay in the leaves when there’s a perfectly awkward crevice available🦎🥚 #Geckos #Herpetology
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eLife - the journal@eLife29 Oct 2018
Rhodopsins provide a new example showing how evolution's path can be constrained elifesciences.org/digests/35…

Shedding light on evolution’s unexplored options

Though many land animals could in theory have better vision in dim light, evolution has been unable to reach an alternative solution.

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U of T Alumni@uoftalumni21 Jul 2017
🔬 The visionary research being done by @opsinlab provides an interesting glimpse at evolution in action. ow.ly/IPeC30dt3Y4 #UofT
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Ecology of Vision@EcologyofVision19 Jun 2017
Trevor Price reviews how the environment may drive the evolution of both signals and signal perception. #colsci journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…
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why@Tioliah25 Jun 2017
Replying to @Tioliah @Niharb @opsinlab @rkschott
Alex Van Nynatten (@Alexvn) of @opsinlab on evolution of anchovy vision over marine-freshwater transitions xitter.gq/Tioliah/status/8786712…
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Alex VN: Dim light vision achieved by rhodopsin, in the rod cells; evolves to be spectrally tuned to different wavelengths #evol2017
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why@Tioliah25 Jun 2017
Replying to @Tioliah @Niharb @opsinlab
Ryan Schott (@rkschott) of @opsinlab on rod-cone transmutation in reptiles xitter.gq/Tioliah/status/8786639…
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Schott: Rods can evolutionarily transition into cones (transmutation) when light environment switches dim-to-bright and vice versa #evol2017
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NSERC / CRSNG
@NSERC_CRSNG27 Jun 2017
Fish living in extreme environments adapt ability to see ow.ly/Q9l330cVGnS @UofT @opsinlab @giannicast @franceshauser
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FEBS Letters@FEBS_Letters3 Jul 2017
Is bovine #rhodopsin a reliable model to study retinal disease? New data by @opsinlab bit.ly/2roiDku
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If you see Aoife McLysaght @aoifemcl, Jeff Thorne, Belinda Chang @opsinlab, or Nicolas Galtier at #SMBE17, congratulate them on election!
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David Pollock@GenomesEvolve11 Apr 2017
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@opsinlab wins for coolest lab icon
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why@Tioliah1 Mar 2017
Some good news! My new paper on epistasis in cetacean rhodopsin is out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB today! cc @opsinlab rspb.royalsocietypublishing.…
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Francesco Santini@fsantini20158 Nov 2016
great new paper by @opsinlab A second visual rhodopsin gene, rh1-2 in zebrafish and other ray-finned fishes jeb.biologists.org/content/e…
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Mark Westneat 🐟@mwestneat8 Jul 2016
Neotropical cichlids show strong positive selection (dn/ds >1) on rhodopsin gene, triple the rate of other genes @franceshauser #JMIH16 – at New Orleans, LA
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Kapil Mandrekar@Ichthyologists8 Jul 2016
#jmih16 "Evol dynamics of the dim light vidual pigments in Neo cichlids" @ASIHCopeia @Neotropi @HLopezFernandez – at New Orleans, LA
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Milton Tan@mtanichthys9 Jul 2016
.@franceshauser is the winner of the best student talk for #NIA @Neotropi. Well earned! #JMIH16
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Ecology of Vision@EcologyofVision6 Jul 2016
Visual pigments in a palaeognath bird, the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae. #colsci #visualecology rspb.royalsocietypublishing.…
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Francesco Santini@fsantini20154 Jul 2016
The life aquatic: advances in marine vertebrate genomics dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2016.…
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Brian Sidlauskas@BrianSidlauskas4 Jul 2016
Putting the final touches on the phylogenetic comparative methods in R workshop for #JMIH16. Laissez les bon temps R-ouler!
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MBARI@MBARI_News2 Jul 2016
Larval Flyingfish, family Exocoetidae ow.ly/s6iv301Lv0a Photo: D. Fenolio #midwater
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