For a teaser, check our Michi’s latest poster on the project

Congratulations to Michi Forshofer for the audience-selected poster award for his work on frog vision across metamorphosis!

Some conference impressions of of our posters and talks below.

As always, the posters are archived free to view and download here.

The slides for Tom’s talk are here. ERM2025 – Eye Evolution

Check out all our ERM 2025 posters here

On the cover: The anole lizard, like other reptiles including birds, relies on seven distinct photoreceptor types for vision: rods, four “ancestral” single cones (sensitive to red, green, blue, and ultraviolet), and two members of the so-called tetrapod double cone. Through comparative single-cell transcriptomics, Tommasini et al. trace the evolutionary origins of these cell types. Alongside the results from a parallel study by Liu et al., their findings support the orthology of single cones across vertebrates and shed new light on the mysterious evolutionary origins of double cones. Photo credit: ByChelo (pexels.com).

See also the dispatch by Almut Kelber

Tommasini D^§, Yoshimatsu T^§, Puthussery T^§, Baden T^§, Shekhar K^§. Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptor types. Current Biology 35:1-12. direct link. pdf.