Congratulations to postdoc Isobel Ronai, who was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Life Science Research Foundation! Read more about Isobel’s work in this article from the Harvard Gazette.
Welcome new postdoc Damien Markus, an expert in Drosophila developmental genetics!
Cassandra was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA)!
Congratulations to graduate student Anastasia Repouliou, who was elected as the next chair of the the 2024 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Seminar!
Congratulations to graduate student Emily Rivard, who won a poster award at the 2023 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference!
Congratulations to graduate student Rishabh Kapoor, who was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Read about Rishabh and his work here.
Welcome new postdoc Sonali Gandhi, an expert in the biophysics of lipid-protein interactions!
Congratulations to postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi for being awarded a grant from the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund! In this project, we will collaborate with the team of Dr. Amos Abolaji at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and director of the Drosophila Research and Training Center.
Congratulations to postdoc Mandira Katuwal, who has ben selected to join the 2023 cohort of Leading Edge Fellows! Read about Mandira and her life and career here.
Welcome new postdoc Kirsten Gotting, an expert in evolutionary genomics!
Welcome new graduate student Faisal AlZaben, a PhD candidate in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms graduate program!
Welcome new graduate student Rishabh Kapoor, a PhD candidate in the Systems Biology graduate program!
Arpita and Ben‘s manuscript on a novel role for oskar in long term memory in crickets is now posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.
Welcome new postdoc Mandira Katuwal, an expert in entomology, plant pest control and genomics!
Congratulations to postdoc Suhrid Ghosh, who was awarded the 2022 MCB Peralta Science Essay Award for his writing about plasticity in animal development! Read more about Suhrid and his writing here.
Seth and Taro‘s manuscript on nuclear movements in cricket embryos is now in press at Nature Communications ! Read the article here, and check out media coverage by the New York Times, The Scientist, Harvard’s MCB Department and Faculty Opinions.
Postdoc positions available – see details here!
Welcome new postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi, an expert in metabolomics!
Welcome to new postdocs Suhrid Ghosh, with expertise in developmental & cell biology /physiology/genetics, and Polpass Arul Jose, a microbiologist and microbiome expert!
Welcome to new postdocs Upendra Bhattarai, an expert in the genomics of host/parasite interactions, and Isobel Ronai, an insect and tick geneticist!
