Mirko Pegoraro PhD

@3volution.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Epigenetics at LJMU. Focus on understanding Evolution via Natural Selection at multiple levels. I am interested in Genetics, Epigenetics and Molecular Biology. 🐝🪰🦟🐜🦠🧬🌈he/him Web: https://shorturl.at/WF8o3 YouTube: @EEL-2026

Picture of poster shaped as a blood drop saying: your nhs needs you, save a life Give blood.
Picture of 2 books by Caroline Criado Perez: “Do it like a woman …and change the world” and “Invisible Women”.
A picture of my arm with a plaster after donating blood, pointing quite awkwardly to the nhs poster saying “Save a life, Give blood”.
Drawing of a measuring tape with “Dad, no one measures up to you!” message from my daughter.
Drosophila vials with blue food
Georgia in her lab coat, working at a microscope holding a vial containing flies. The talented Georgia Lowe working on her #Drosophila crosses for her #BSc #Zoology #project in our lab at #LJMU. Project title: Fly 🪰 Vampirism: how count Vlad becomes 🧛. (Investigating the genetic 🧬 landscape of temporal niche switch in #Drosophila melanogaster).
A very happy Linus Bell collecting his first set of data from the #Drosophila Activity Monitors for his #BSc #Biology #project in our lab at #LJMU. Project title: what Diamond 💎 & PFAS 🛢️ have in common? They both are forever!!!! (Investigating the impact of PFAS on #Drosophila #sleep pattern).
Grace Barron taking pictures of Drosophila wings with a Nixon microscope. Here is Grace Barron working on her #BSc #Biology final #project in our lab at #LJMU. Project title: The wings are the door to the fly 🪰 soul. (Testing how the ratio carbohydrates/proteins influences #Drosophila #development).