Welcome back to Prashant Sharma, our collaborator on chelicerate body plan evo-devo, who has returned to our lab to work on spider appendage development.
Welcome to Linda Honaker and Leo Blondel, rotation students in the MCO Graduate Training Program.
Welcome to Winnie Belai, our new research assistant, and Austen Barnett, a new postdoc.
Evelyn‘s paper on spider germ cell formation is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology PDF
Welcome to Aisha Dorta and Davys Lopez, post-baccalaureate students in the GSAS Research Scholars Program.
Prashant‘s paper on scorpion Hox genes is accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. PDF
Our collaborative paper with several other spider labs on the developmental transcriptome of the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum is accepted for publication in PLoS ONE. PDF
Welcome to new lab members Carrie Whittle, a postdoc, and Rinat Degani, an undergraduate student.
Welcome to Indu Nair, a new postdoc.
Congratulations to Ben Ewen-Campen and Andre Green for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses! See photos of the champagne toasts here.
Congratulations to Kim Johansson for being awarded an EDEN Undergraduate Internship and a
Cassandra was promoted to tenure and Full Professor. In December she accepted Harvard’s offer!
Congratulations to Nia Walker for being awarded a Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) Fellowship!
Welcome to Kim Johansson, an undergraduate student from Harvard College!
Seth‘s paper on the role of BMP signaling in cricket germ cell formation is accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. PDF
Welcome to Andrew Lawson, a rotation student from the MCO Graduate Program, and Nia Walker, an undergraduate student from Harvard College!
Andre‘s paper on the evolution of insulin signaling in fruit fly ovariole number divergence and phenotypic plasticity is accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. PDF * Read more in the Harvard Gazette
Cassandra will be hosting an Evo-Devo community workshop at NESCent from 11-13 December, 2013. Click here to learn how you can can “attend” virtually.
Abha‘s paper on the molecular evolution of oskar in Drosophilids is accepted for publication in Development, Genes and Evolution. PDF
Prashant‘s paper on the evolution of cap-n-collar expression in Arthropods is accepted for publication in EvoDevo. PDF
Tripti‘s paper on germ plasm in the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis is accepted for publication in EvoDevo. PDF
Cassandra is interviewed for articles in Scientific American and Quanta Magazine on the Program Cooperation and the Evolution of Multicellularity that she co-organized at the Kavli Institite for Theoretical Physics.
Check out Cassandra’s feature in Debate on Evolution of Multicellular Organisms Starts to Gain Focus in the Scientific American. Article here.
Ana‘s paper demonstrating a video protocol for blastomere ablation in the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis is accepted for publication in The Journal of Visualized Experiments. PDF
Tamsin‘s paper on the role of BMP signaling in frog limb development is published in the Journal of Anatomy.
Congratulations to Taro, who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Transcriptomics for the Animal Kingdom: Using RNA-Seq to study nonmodel organisms! Featured in The Scientist. Article here.
Read Cassandra’s commentary on a recent hypothesis on the role of germ line stem cell maintenance in the evolution of reproductive strategies. [pdf]
Welcome to Prashant Sharma, a visiting postdoc from the American History of Natural History, Erick Bayala, an undergraduate student from the MCO Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, and Taro Nakamura, a new postdoc.
Congratulations to Evelyn, who has been selected for a Visiting Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to pursue work at in the McGregor Lab at Oxford Brookes University in 2014.
Congratulations to Prince for receiving a Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) Fellowship.
Congratulations to Evelyn for receiving first prize in the postdoc poster competition at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology.
Congratulations to Andre for receiving a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
Ben‘s paper on the role of zygotic mechanisms in specifying germ cells in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus is accepted for publication in Current Biology. [pdf]
Ben and Tamsin‘s paper on germ line development in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus is is accepted for publication in Biology Open (Company of Biologists). [pdf]
Victor‘s paper on the creation and de novo annotation of a transcriptome for the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus is is accepted for publication in PLoS ONE.s [PDF of accepted MS]
