Conrad Helm

Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle an... Endoparasitic annelids living inside another annelid host are known, particularly with regard to Oenonidae, but in general are poorly studied. The dorvilleid Veneriserva pygoclava is known from southe...

🎉Our paper on #Veneriserva, a fascinating endoparasitic polychaete with unique adaptations, is now published and OpenAccess. Hope you enjoy the read! 🌊🐭

🔗🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are hiring and have a 4-year PhD position available at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen. Topic: Functional characterization of ctenophore neurons. Reposts are highly appreciated! Funded by the European Research Council (ERC). #ctenophores

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

News about crazy worms and the evolution of their appendages from our department: Palps across the tree – the neuronal innervation and development of sensory head appendages in Annelida; by Kalke et al.! doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1310225

Interested in the evolution of multicellularity and cell differentiation?

Núria Ros-Rocher, James Gahan and I are organizing a symposium in Helsinki at @EED2024 next year! Abstract deadline at the end of January!

tinyurl.com/EEDHelsinki