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      <image:caption>Sebastian completed his Ph.D. at McGill University and was an A.P. Giannini Fellow at Stanford University. He is interested in how plastic molecular substrates can shape a genome to dynamic changes in the environment. Outside of his research program, Sebastian consults for the entertainment sector with Thwacke and writes books about science fiction. You can follow him on Twitter @Sebcredible</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Annaliese is a EEB doctoral candidate and resident bioinformatician. She is interested in the patterns of DNA methylation and transcription that accompany a color change and their ties to neuroendocrine signals</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Matt is an incoming CNC doctoral candidate studying coloration and its effect on neural substrates in the A. burtoni and in bluegill sunfish. You can find him talking about nerdy stuff on Twitter @Nom_the_Wise</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anastasia is a Graduate Center Cognitive Neuroscience Masters Student. She is currently investigating how visual ecology can shape female mate preference and reproductive biology.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chelsea is a Postbaccalaureate and QC alumnus that is setting up laboratory protocols around the primary culture of chromatophores from our model system as well as the transgenic labeling of epigenetic modulators in our model system</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fatima is an undergraduate in QC’s neuroscience program and she is currently investigating the effects of ambient light on the dorso-ventral countercurrent shading that changes within our model cichlid system.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Da Eun is an LSAMP/URISE Scholar hosted by our lab who initially arrived as a CUNY Career Launch Intern. After doing a great deal of image analysis for our Cephalod pigmentation projects, he is now attempting to label the peripheral nervous system of cichlids in their skin.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andrew conducts research on Daphnia behavior, maintaining live cultures, running and scaling behavioral assays, recording and curating video data, and using automated tracking software to extract quantitative behavioral measures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Renisha is a LSAMP undergraduate researcher who is currently investigating how patterns in our cichlid system change with social rank within their scales and chromatophores.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Angelica joined our lab after being indoctrinated into our research program via BIOL200 and BIOL381! She is currently doing pigmentation studies on the scales of our cichlid and bluegill systems!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kristen is a Neuroscience Major in the Alvarado Lab playing a role in supporting animal husbandry and behavioral scoring efforts in the lab.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Avi carried out behavioral ecology research on African cichlid fish, using computer-vision–based approaches alongside extensive animal husbandry, behavioral and assay setup. His work focuses on the visual determinants of mate choice.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Tajerian is a preclinical pain researcher that has been a longtime collaborator interested in the limits of brain plasticity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Fang is a forest ecologist and faculty at Pace University and she helps us environmental phenotypes from space!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Kogan is a biophysicist interested in the emergent properties of collective behavior in model systems such as Daphnia magna.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yefim is a Physics Chief Lab Technician and go to engineer behind all of our tools, lighting, dosing, camera rigs, and the Tanganyikan sunsets that our fish our thankful for every day!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New paper led by Matthew Peros published in 1/2025 in Frontiers in Ethology! Check out the audio deep dive here!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Dr. Alvarado Serves on Sloan Science and Film Panel</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Museum of the Moving Image invited Dr. Alvarado to select Sloan Student Winners for the Discovery and Grand Jury prizes. Winners were announced by Variety, January 2025</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Students Think Faculty Should Be Mentors. What Does That Look Like?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado was interviewed and quoted for his mentorship and translating this support to career outcomes for Inside Higher Ed.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Effects of social position on courtship and mating activity in an African cichlid</image:title>
      <image:caption>New paper led by Anastasia Martashvili published in 11/2024 in Hydrobiologia! Check out the audio deep dive here!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - QC gets an NIH URISE Funding!</image:title>
      <image:caption>We got an NIH T34 grant for a URISE program to be led by Dr. Tajerian and Dr. Alvarado. Note: Dr. Tajerian did the heavy lifting when she had COVID!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Alvarado Lab Awarded Whitman Fellowship!</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Alvarado Lab has been invited to conduct research at the MBL to conduct research on hummingbird bobtail squid under their Whitman Fellows program!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - CongraTs To Annalise for her JSPS fellowship!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Annaliese Chang was awarded a JSPS fellowship to carry out research on Cuttlefish with Dr. Jonathan Miller’s group at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our own Matthew Hackett and his fiancée Michelle Coleman were highlighted by the Graduate Center here at CUNY!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Anastiasia Gets COGneuro award!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Congratulations to Anastasia Martashvili for receiving a Cognitive Neuroscience award to enhance her research studying visual ecology and mate preference!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Hosting Congolese Royalty!</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Tajerian and Alvarado Labs gave a tour and reception for Her Royal Highness, Queen Diambi Kabatusuila Tshiyoyo Muata from the Democratic Republic of Congo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado presented his research program with QC’s alumni community as part of their At Home with QC 2022 fall seminar series.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado was invited to participate on a panel discussion on the state and limitations of brain machine interface technologies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado was interviewed for CUNY TV’s Science Goes to the Movies series to discuss the many ways to make a super solider like Steven Roger’s Captain America. 12/2021</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ms. Aliza Mandelbaum was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Program stipend to carry out research in our lab over the summer! 07/2022</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado was interviewed for CUNY TV’s Science Goes to the Movies series to discuss the Incredible Hulk’s transformations 12/2021</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado contributed to a short segment on the Flash Forward podcast to discuss the possibility of shrinking humans in a world where our resources are also shrinking! 10/2021</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mr. Matthew Hackett was awarded a Research Experiences for Post-baccalaureate Students (REPS) supplement to carry out research over the year in the Alvarado Lab! 01/2021</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado and Dr. Campbell-Staton spend an hour geeking out about the science behind superheroes for a CUNY Graduate Center City of Science event. 11/2020</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Both Dr. Alvarado and Dr. Tajerian were panelists for the New York Hall of Science’s STEM Career Expo. 05/2019</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>El Mercurio, covered Dr. Alvarado’s teaching efforts in Chile and the start of their Open Horizons program for underserved communities in rural parts of Santiago. 01/2019</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado was invited to comment on his new book and ideas around the epigenetic variation we see between T’Challa and Erik Stevens as depicted in Black Panther 10/2019</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>BBC News World Service interviewed Dr. Alvarado on his work with cichlids and his career path in science for a radio segment on Outlook 08/2017</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sebastian shared a personal story about how he got into science and sharing it with Marvel Entertainment early on in his career. 04/2017</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Slate interviewed Dr. Alvarado on a publication he authored on the continuous size variation seen in Carpenter Ants. 04/2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado produced a video with Stanford University on how a recent paper he published could be used to shrink or enlarge ants like in Ant-Man 01/2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Guardian interviewed Dr. Alvarado’s involvement in video game development and crafting good science behind compelling fiction. 11/2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado produced a video with Stanford University on how he would create a Super Soldier Serum as described in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America. 08/2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Alvarado produced a video with Stanford University on what could be going on inside the Hulk’s body when he transforms. 08/2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>El Mercurio, covered Dr. Alvarado’s teaching efforts for Stanford University and EduExplora’s flagship cohort in Santiago and el Universidad de Andres Bello. 01/2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nerdist covered a panel discussion where Dr. Alvarado discussed work he did on a Marvel Entertainment museum exhibit, The Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. 06/2014</image:caption>
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