Juan Diego Gaitan Espitia 🇨🇴🇭🇰
@JDGaitanEspitia
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Evolutionary ecologist + Assistant Professor @iBEER_LAB - Studying adaptive dynamics in changing environments. Associate Editor @J_Therm_Biol & ProcB
Hong Kong
Joined April 2012
Crazy year, crazy @iBEER_LAB team but I’m very lucky to be part of this amazing group of people & scientists! Early #xmasgift celebration 🎉 Thanks all for the support & efforts!!! #proudPI PS: Yummy dim sum
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Part one of the story of SWIMS whale – the blue whale skeleton that stood outside SWIMS building for almost 30 years. The whale will be back soon! And so will part 2 of its story. #HKU #UniversityofHongKong #SWIMS #marinescience
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The @iBEER_LAB team working on restoration of blue carbon ecosystems in #HongKong and China. Check how the team is connecting different stakeholders to support NbS and #carbon accounting !
Prof. Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia’s @iBEER_LAB team were featured in TVB (Hong Kong's public television broadcasting company) episode 7 of the series "Go global and attract foreign investment: The Greater Bay Area." https://t.co/6RjWaVeNuY
#marinescience #hku #SWIMS #seagrass
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So honored to be featured in the cover story of #MSA. Hope more peers will pay attention to this field, and work together for the #oceanchanges. Read more: https://t.co/EQbRFFvuiQ
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Dr Xin Dang has discovered a previously unknown consequence of #globalwarming - induced ocean acidification: its effect on sex ratios in marine invertebrates. The paper was featured on the cover of Environmental Science & Technology.
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Research by @iBEER_LAB led by @JDGaitanEspitia shows that thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) regulates feeding behaviour in sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus. More: https://t.co/nvq4xbu6af
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Mol Plant Mar 2025 issue🎉Cover Story: Genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analyses reveal convergent evolution of oxime biosynthesis in Darwin’s orchid (Jiang et al., 2025). Cover image by Kai Jiang, Zhi Wang, and Wei-Chang Huang. https://t.co/2JkG1zpHba
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@J_Therm_Biol Editor in Chief @DomMcCafferty giving a talk on applications and future directions in thermal imaging on the second day of the thermal biology symposium in #Lund. @lunduniversity
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The tragedy & humiliation of trying to publish #OA for us folks in lower-mid income countries: 🇧🇷's Kowaltowski "emailed journal 12 times asking for a discount ... #Elsevier threatened Kowaltowski with legal action if she didn’t pay the quoted fee." 👉🏽 https://t.co/OLmLcHt0iB
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Congrats @KatieMWatson_ well deserved 👏👏👏
Thank you to @GefMongooseIOM for naming me one of the Isle of Man’s ‘30 Under 30! I love that this initiative celebrates the diversity of Manx talent. https://t.co/Rb2g1oIHzQ
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The @iBEER_LAB is growing! Welcome to the team Katie! During the next couple of years, @KatieMWatson_ will lead our #seagrass #restoration program, implementing assisted gene flow for genetic rescue of seagrass populations in #HongKong and the region! Stay tuned!
Life update! I’ve moved across the world to join the @iBEER_LAB in Hong Kong as a postdoc! Already getting stuck into some restoration with @wwfhk & @nature_org! 🌱
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It constantly baffles me how people who are smart, curious and observant can be so blind to simple realities of their profession (and this is not a US thing - indeed it’s worse in most other places). You can not like it - I certainly don’t - but how is any of this a surprise?
I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.
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Live #Reef #Fish are #traded in/through #HongKong with trends changing over the years, but many reporting loopholes are preventing us from understanding the full picture Out in @PolicyMarine
https://t.co/vUF3jT0r4w
#fisheries #coralreefs
@arthurcyc @JDGaitanEspitia @SWIMSHKU
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#DNADay Launch for Hong Kong’s Moonshot for Biology https://t.co/b5bvO3DBLw Proud to announce the first outputs of the Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium are out in a new series in GigaByte https://t.co/WiaPqx8JVI
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At International DNA Day, 5 new genomes are released by EBPHK (comprising 8 universities in Hong Kong). Interesting species. https://t.co/77l0k8PY1f
@CUHKGlobal @CUHKScience @CUHKofficial @hku_science @hkust @HongKongPolyU @CityUHongKong @HKBU_Science @lingnanuni @FEHD_EdUHK
eurekalert.org
A significant portion of modern knowledge in biology has emerged through sequencing the genetic code of the world’s biodiversity, which to date has been largely uncharacterized and increasingly...
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#Pharmaceuticals x #mental #Health are continuously discharged to #aquatic #environments affecting animal #physiology & #behavior. @ZhenzhenLi14 shows that these #chemicals can also alter thermal #tolerances & plasticity of microscopic algae in the #ocean! https://t.co/ywLWJboCtw
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The care and maintenance of your supervisor. Get our Nature article on this topic here. https://t.co/xFnzQWEt5p
#PhDforum #EMCRforum #research #academictwitter #PhDchat #ECRchat
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Welcome to @J_Therm_Biol! Meet our editorial team... Ed-in-chief: @DomMcCafferty Associate eds (left to right): @TattersallG
@FamingKULeuven Xiaoshuai Wang @Jose_I_Priego
@fem1964
@NPilakouta
@KRuthsatz
@JDGaitanEspitia
@dl_levesque Managing eds: @MattJNoakes1
@GeoffMinett
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New Academic positions @HKUniversity in Ecology & Biodiversity. Can be marine research based at our marine institute @SWIMSHKU! Come join us!
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Professor positions on ecology & biodiversity broadly at @HKUniversity . Great place to study tropical biodiversity (but not limited to it). Pls join us!!
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🐦🐦⬛🦜Our preprint on "The genetic consequences of historic climate change on the contemporary population structure of a widespread temperate North American songbird" is available in #bioRxiv! https://t.co/kJPywL8vqe
biorxiv.org
Studies of widely distributed species can offer insight regarding how past demographic events tied to historic glaciation and ongoing population genetic processes interact to shape contemporaneous...
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🚨New Preprint🚨 Environmental factors and host sex influence the skin #microbiome structure of Hong Kong #newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis) in a coldspot of #chytridiomycosis in subtropical East Asia🐸🦠 https://t.co/rcxlhs4zyz
biorxiv.org
Chytridiomycosis, an infectious skin disease caused by the chytrid fungi, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans , has been threatening global amphibian biodiversity. On the skin of...
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