Evelyn Schwager joined the lab as a postdoc in January 2009. She comes to us from the lab of Wim Damen in Cologne, Germany, where she has worked on the molecular mechanisms of segmentation in spiders. Her current project is an investigation of the role of dpp signaling in arthropod germ cell specification.

Publications

The molecular machinery of germ line specification. Ewen-Campen, B., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 77(1): 3-18 (2010).

hunchback functions as a gap gene during anterior segmentation in the spider Achaearanea tepidariorum. Schwager E.E., Pechmann M., Feitosa N.M., McGregor A.P. and Damen W.G.M. Curr. Biol. 19(16): 1333-40. (2009)

An ancestral regulatory network for posterior development in arthropods. McGregor, A.P.; Pechmann, M.; Schwager, E.E. and Damen, W.G.M. Communicative & Integrative Biology vol. 2 (2): 174-176. (2009)

Dynamic gene expression is required for anterior regionalization in a spider. Pechmann M, McGregor A.P., Schwager E.E., Feitosa N.M., Damen W.G.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(5):1468-72. (2009)

Wnt8 is required for growth-zone establishment and development of opisthosomal segments in a spider. McGregor A.P., Pechmann M., Schwager E.E., Feitosa N.M., Kruck S., Aranda M., Damen W.G.. Curr Biol. 18(20):1619-23. (2008)

Cupiennius salei and Achaeranea tepidariorum: spider models for investigating evolution and development. McGregor, A. P., Hilbrant, M., Pechmann, M., Schwager, E. E., Prpic, N.-M. and Damen, W. G. M.. BioEssays 30(5) 487-498 (2008)

Duplicated Hox genes in the spider Cupiennius salei. Frontiers in Zoology. Schwager, E. E., Schoppmeier, M., Pechmann, M. and Damen, W. G. M. Frontiers in Zoology 4:10 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-4-10 (2007)