by Stephanie Sang | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As part of the Farewell to Tetsuto Tour, members of the Coates Lab attended Madama Butterfly at the Lyric Opera last week. Although there were technically not any fish involved, we took to heart the themes of unrequited love and betrayal (looking at you, microCT...
by Stephanie Sang | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
In late January NHK (National Broadcast, Japan) sent a film crew to interview Tetsuto, Mike, Vicky Prince, and Urs Schmidt-Ott and follow their research activities in OBA and the Field Museum. Here, Tetsuto is demo-ing zebrafish injection/engaging in a fossil fish...
by Stephanie Sang | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our lab met to celebrate the legacy of Mr. Burns, a Scot, at Tetsuto/Kesia/Toru’s apartment. We sipped on whiskey, ferociously snacked on pork belly and cous cous salad, and ate too much chocolate pudding. Thank you hagfish-in-training Tetsuto and Kesia for...
by Stephanie Sang | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
On a dark and stormy day in January, we bid goodbye to our beloved lab artist, Kristen, who has ascended to Kansas. As Kristen lay on a table among human bones, we read aloud tragic eulogies and wept. Finally, we launched a boat into Botany Pond and set it aflame,...
by Stephanie Sang | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Coates lab postdoc Tetsuto Miyashita traveled to Austin, TX for the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), where he delivered a talk “The evolutionary origin of the filter-feeding larval phase in lampreys.” When...
