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What are the limits of life?
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In the Varney Lab, we "find animals that should be dead and ask them how they're alive". We combine 'omics, physiology, behavior, and more to understand the evolutionary innovations that permit animals to survive and thrive in remarkable ways. We focus on invertebrates, but there are other critters around, too!

New paper in PNAS

7/16/2026

 
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Happy to share that our paper on molecular convergence in cnidarians is out. Instead of finding genes under selection that contributed to diverse body forms, we found widespread convergence that was decoupled from body forms. Read more here!

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