Congratulations to Andre, who has been selected as the graduate student representative to the Communications Committee of the Genetics Society of America (GSA).
Our collaborative paper with Prashant Sharma of the Giribet lab onRNAi interference in harvestmen and the roles of dac and Dll in appendage development and evolution is accepted for publication in Evolution and Development. This paper was featured as a Cover Article! [pdf]
Check out Ben Ewen-Campen’s work in Evolution: oskar Reveals Missing Link in Co-optive Evolution
Check out Cassandra’s feature Solving a biological mystery! by The Harvard Gazette.
The bounty of EDEN! Cassandra’s feature in the Harvard Gazette. Click here
Ben‘s paper on the evolution of the oskar gene is accepted for publication in Current Biology. Read more in the Harvard Gazette and a Dispatch in Current Biology. [pdf]
Victor‘s paper on our Assembled Searchable Giant Arthropod Read Database (ASGARD) is accepted for publication in Database. If you are interested in sequence data from emerging model arthropods, then ASGARD could help you with your research! [pdf]
Andre‘s paper on the developmental basis of convergent evolution of Drosophila ovariole number is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology. [pdf]
Our collaborative paper with Prashant Sharma of the Giribet lab on leg gap genes in harvestmen and the evolution of the chelicera is accepted for publication in Evolution and Development. [pdf]
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]
