• Cassandra's "CreatureCast Episode" is featured on the November 6 episode of NPR's Science Friday

• Congratulations to Franz Kainz for successfully defending his PhD thesis at Cambridge University

• Welcome to Didem Sarikaya, a graduate student in the OEB Graduate Program.

• Welcome to André Green, a graduate student in the MCO Graduate Training Program.

Welcome to the Extavour lab. We are a collection of developmental biologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, cell biologists, zoologists, and evolutionary biologists. Our shared interest is in the evolution of the genetic mechanisms employed during early animal embryogenesis to specify cell fate, development and differentiation. We focus primarily on the evolution and development of reproductive systems, including both the germ line and the somatic components of the gonad.