Cody Limber
Graduate Student
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Developmental Evolutionary Biology
Single Cell Sequencing
Ornithology
Hi! I'm Cody! I'm an developmental evolutionary ornithologist with a keen interest in feathers. I mostly think about feathers and have been using single cell sequencing technologies to understand the cell types that make up feathers. I've created an atlas of feather cell types, modeled feather cell development, and proposed an evolutionary tree of feather cell types. I'm currently working on understanding feather coloration using single cell sequencing.
I am currently a PhD candidate in Richard Prum's lab in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley where I worked with George Bentley and Kate Wilsterman on Zebra Finch endocrinology. I am also interested in teaching and have worked with the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning as a graduate student fellow.
Updates!
March 2026
Upcoming! I'll be tabling at the Connecticut Ornithological Association's Annual Meeting
January 2026
Very excited that my talk What’s black, white, and red all over? Cell type specific gene expression in melanin pigmented feathers
won the DEDB Best Student Talk at SICB
December 2025
Had a great time presenting some work on feather pigmentation at Evo-Devo Day at Yale
August 2025
My first PhD chapter on describing feather cell types has been published! Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity
July 2025
Come see my talk at Evolution in Athens titled The Evolution and Development of Feather Cell Types
September 2024
We're off! The Prum Lab is headed to French Guiana to try to document some incredible avian displays with a high speed camera. We're hoping to come back with some incredible video footage and a better understanding of avian sound production!
July 2024
Come see my talk titled Genetic characterization of developing feather cell types provides insight into feather cell type evolution
at Evolution in Montreal!
January 2023
Come see my talk at SICB in Austin titled Single Cell Transcriptomics Reveals a Diverse Set of Feather Germ Cell Types
December 2022
We're off! The Prum Lab is headed to Brazil to work on filming manakins in slow motion. We'll be trying out some new techniques to capture sound and video simultaniously so here's hoping that the birds cooperate!
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