Nacht der Forschung 2025
Morgane Fournier and I participated in the Nacht der Forschung event with the University of Bern, where we had the opportunity to present our research projects and discuss our work directly with the public...
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The latest updates from the Meta-Morphosis Project.
ESEB conference in Barcelona! Olé!
From August 17 to 22, 2025, Morgane Fournier, Vivien Louppe, and I attended the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress in Barcelona. I was invited to give a talk as part of a symposium on craniofacial evolution organized by…
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid!
Morgane Fournier and I recently traveled to Madrid to visit the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, where we acquired an important new collection of Fire Salamander and Alpine Newt samples. Thanks to the invaluable support of Marta Calvo...
The role of metamorphosis in morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
In our latest paper, we explore how variation in metamorphosis — the dramatic body transformation that some animals undergo — plays a major role in shaping lower jaw diversity among salamanders and newts. Metamorphosis is a spectacular developmental process, marked…
Museum Night 2025 was a blast!
A few weeks ago, the entire team took part in the Museum Night at the Natural History Museum in Bern. The public were actively involved in talking to us about our research. In addition, we developed a game to learn…
Back to La Specola Firenze, Italy
We are back with Morgane at one of our favourite museums, La Specola in Firenze!!!! This time, we were there to loan Fire salamander specimens! We spent the day...
CT-scanning in Dijon!
I was in Dijon to CT-scan salamander specimens at the GISMO platform of the University of Burgundy, and I was truly impressed by the CT scanner they use there! I spent two days working with Lauriane Poloni...
CT-scanning tons of salamanders in Berkeley!
I spent two weeks in Berkeley expanding the salamander database! The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology houses one of the world’s finest collections of salamanders and ontogenetic series. It also carries the remarkable legacy of Dave Wake, one of the most…
An inspiring journey through La Specola’s collections
We were incredibly excited to visit the herpetology collection at La Specola in Florence, Italy, for the very first time. This museum has long held a special reputation among herpetologists, and finally having the opportunity to explore its collections in person felt truly inspiring. From the moment we arrived...
World Congress of Herpetology in Borneo!
The entire META-MORPHOSIS team headed to Borneo for the 10th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH10)!!!! I had the pleasure of organizing a symposium together with Tiana Kohlsdorf and Daniel Paluh entitled Developmental Herpetology: Linking Ecology, Development, and Evolution...
