Congratulations to Abha Ahuja, who has been awarded a Post-Doctoral Curriculum Fellowship in the  inter-departmental graduate program in Developmental and Regenerative Biology (DRB) at the Harvard Medical School.
Farewell to Victor Zeng, who has left the lab to start his own company, Stylux Incorporated! Find out more about Victor’s experience and bioinformatic analysis services by visiting his web page.
Welcome to Mimi Velazquez, the laboratory’s new administrator.
Our collaborative paper with Prashant Sharma of the Giribet lab on Hox genes in harvestmen is accepted for publication in Evolution and Development. [pdf]
Congratulations to Seth Donoughe for receiving a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
The Harvard Crimson features an article about field trips in OEB, including the Panama Field Trip for Cassandra’s undergraduate course, OEB51: Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals.
Evelyn Schwager co-authors a paper on Hox genes in spider development, now available from PNAS. [pdf]
Congratulations to Yue Meng for receiving a fellowship from the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP).
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.
Victor‘s paper on theParhyale transcriptome is accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. [pdf]
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.
Frederike Alwes‘ paper on Parhyale cell lineage is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology. [pdf]
Welcome to Aisha Dorta, who comes to our lab through the MCO Undergraduate Summer Internship Program.
Congratulations to Didem Sarikaya for being awarded both an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship and an FRSQ Doctoral Training Fellowship.
Didem Sarikaya and André Green‘s paper on counting in oogenesis is accepted for publication in Cell and Tissue Research. [pdf]
Ben Ewen-Campen‘s paper on the de novo transcriptome of Oncopeltus fasciatus is accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. [pdf]
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.
Nerd Corner Podcast Interview for Carin Bondar’s Biology Blog featuring Cassandra! Click here
Welcome to Research Associate Tripti Gupta.
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.
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.
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.
Cassandra receives a New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation.