| December 2011 |
Didem's paper on Drosophila ovariole number determination is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology. [pdf]
Nat's paper on climate change and lizard reproduction is accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology. |
| November 2011 |
Victor's paper on theParhyale transcriptome is accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. [pdf] |
| September 2011 |
Our paper on Gryllus segmentation is accepted for publication in Development. [pdf]
Welcome to Tamsin Jones and Seth Donoughe, new graduate students in the OEB Graduate Progam.
Welcome to Nat Clarke, an undergrad who comes to us from Kate Jackson's lab at Whitman College. |
| July 2011 |
Frederike Alwes' paper on Parhyale cell lineage is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology. [pdf] |
| June 2011 |
Welcome to Aisha Dorta, who comes to our lab through the MCO Undergraduate Summer Internship Program. |
| March 2011 |
Congratulations to Didem Sarikaya for being awarded both an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship and an FRSQ Doctoral Training Fellowship. |
| February 2011 |
Didem Sarikaya and André Green's paper on counting in oogenesis is accepted for publication in Cell and Tissue Research. [pdf] |
| January 2011 |
Ben Ewen-Campen's paper on the de novo transcriptome of Oncopeltus fasciatus is accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. [pdf] |
| December 2010 |
Congratulations to Frederike Alwes for being awarded an EMBO Short Term Fellowship to visit the lab of Michalis Averof at the IMBB in Crete, Greece.
Cassandra is interviewed for a Nerd Corner podcast of the Carin Bondar biology blog. |
| October 2010 |
Welcome to Research Associate Tripti Gupta. |
| September 2010 |
Welcome to Research Assistant Victor Zeng.
Didem Sarikaya's paper on the role of Notch in the trophoblast is accepted for publication in Cell Biology International. [pdf]
The new Evo-Devo-Eco Network (EDEN) NSF Research Coordination Network has been launched, with the administrative assistance of Barbara Perlo. |
| June 2010 |
Cassandra receives a New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation. |
| July 2010 |
Congratulations to Evelyn Schwager for receiving a German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Our chapter (John Srouji and Cassandra Extavour) on the evolution of germ plasm assembly in the book Key Transitions in Animal Evolution is now in press with Science Publishers. |
June 2010 |
Congratulations to Ana Nast Roda for receiving a fellowship from the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), and to Trieu Ton for both a HCRP fellowship and a MCZ Grant-in-Aid of Undergraduate Research.
Welcome to our summer students Ana Roda, Trieu Ton and Gabi Walters. |
April 2010 |
Congratulations to André Green and John Srouji, who have both received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
Cassandra Extavour is nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for her teaching in OEB51. |
December 2009 |
John Srouji co-authors a paper on the evolution of venom proteins, now available from Current Biology. [pdf] |
November 2009 |
Cassandra Extavour's Episode of Casey Dunn's "CreatureCast " 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.
Frederike Alwes co-authors a paper on shrimp embryogenesis, now available from Arthropod Structure and Development. [pdf] |
September 2009 |
Welcome to Didem Sarikaya, a graduate student in the OEB Graduate Program.
Our paper (Ben Ewen-Campen, Evelyn Schwager and Cassandra Extavour) on the molecular machinery behind germ cell specification is now available from Molecular Reproduction and Development. [pdf] |
August 2009 |
Evelyn Schwager's paper on the role of hunchback in spider development is available from Current Biology. A Supplementary Movie from this paper is the featured video for the issue of August 25.[pdf] |
July 2009 |
Welcome to André Green, a graduate student in the MCO Graduate Training Program. |
June 2009 |
Cassandra Extavour's mini-review on the evolution of meiosis genes is available from Current Biology. [pdf]
Frederike Alwes co-authors a paper on Remipede development, now available from Development, Genes and Evolution. [pdf]
Welcome to Omar Delannoy-Bruno, an undergraduate student from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. |
May 2009 |
Welcome to John Srouji, a graduate student in the MCO Graduate Training Program. John is initiating our collaboration with the lab of Andrés Leschziner.
A temporary farewell to Trieu Ton, who will be studying in China for the rest of 2009, but will be back in 2010. |
April 2009 |
Congratulations to Ben Ewen-Campen for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Cassandra Extavour's teaching is praised by students in the Harvard Crimson Fifteen Minutes Magazine. Read about it here.
Evelyn Schwager co-authors a review on posterior patterning in spider development, now available from Communicative and Integrative Biology. [pdf] |
February 2009 |
Evelyn Schwager co-authors a paper on anterior patterning in spider development, now available from Current Biology. [pdf] |
January 2009 |
Welcome to postdoc Evelyn Schwager, who joined the lab after competing her PhD thesis with Wim Damen.
Frederike co-authors a book chapter on developmental genetics in decapod evolution in the Crustacean Issues series book Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. [pdf] |
September 2008 |
Welcome to Ben Ewen-Campen, a graduate student in the OEB Graduate Training Program.
Welcome to postdoc Frederike Alwes, who has joined the lab after completing her PhD thesis with Gerhard Scholtz. |
July 2008 |
A paper on emerging model organisms by a consortium of evo-devo-eco researchers, including Cassandra Extavour as a co-author, is now available from Trends in Genetics. [pdf]
Cassandra Extavour is interviewed on lab management for junior PIs by The Scientist. Read about it here. |
June 2008 |
Welcome to Alessandro König and Elisabeth Maritschnegg, undergraduate students from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and to Trieu Ton, a Harvard College sophomore.
Congratulations to Trieu Ton for receiving a fellowship from the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP).
Welcome to Abel Assefa, who joins the lab as a research assistant after obtaining his BSc in physics from Grinnell College. |
February 2008 |
Cassandra Extavour is interviewed on hiring challenges and techniques for junior PIs by Nature. [pdf]
Welcome to masters student Friedemann Linsler, who is a student at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
Welcome to Chiamaka Nwakeze, a Harvard College sophomore. |
January 2008 |
The Wessel lab, including Cassandra Extavour as a co-author, publishes a paper on vasa expression in sea urchin embryos, now available from Developmental Biology. [pdf]
Cassandra Extavour's book chapter on the evolution of germ plasm specification mechanisms in the book Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is now available from with Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
Welcome to Katherine O'Leary, a Harvard College freshman. |
July 2007 |
Welcome to Vasanth Chandrasekhar, a high school student from Xaverian Brothers High School.
The Extavour lab is open for business! |
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