New funding from NSF in collaboration with Mackenzie Gerringer at SUNY Geneseo to investigate the genetic and biochmeical mechanisms of adaptation of fishes to high hydrostatic pressure (#2407552)! We will assemble genomes from deep-sea fishes from the warm waters of Mediterranean trenches, perform comparative genomics across deep-adapted lineages, examine biochemistry of hadal proteins, and initiate hydrostatic pressure experiments in zebrafish embryos to identify pressure-responsive enhancer elements.