Congratulations to André Green and John Srouji, who have both received NSF >Graduate Research Fellowships.
Cassandra Extavour is nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for her teaching in
December 2009 John Srouji co-authors a paper on the evolution of venom proteins, now available from Current Biology. [pdf]
Check out Cassandra on CreatureCast Episode 2 on NPR Science Friday. Watch here
Cassandra Extavour‘s Episode of Casey Dunn‘s “CreatureCast ” is featured on the November 6 episode of NPR’s Science Friday.
Congratulations to Franz Kainz for successfully defending his PhD thesis at Cambridge University.
Frederike Alwes co-authors a paper on shrimp embryogenesis, now available from Arthropod Structure and Development. [pdf]
Welcome to Didem Sarikaya, a graduate student in the OEB Graduate Program.
Our paper (Ben Ewen-Campen, Evelyn Schwager and Cassandra Extavour) on the molecular machinery behind germ cell specification is now available from Molecular Reproduction and Development. [pdf]
Evelyn Schwager‘s paper on the role of hunchback in spider development is available from Current Biology. A Supplementary Movie from this paper is the featured video for the issue of August 25.[pdf]
Welcome to André Green, a graduate student in the MCO Graduate Training Program.
Cassandra Extavour‘s mini-review on the evolution of meiosis genes is available from Current Biology. [pdf]
Frederike Alwes co-authors a paper on Remipede development, now available from Development, Genes and Evolution. [pdf]
Welcome to Omar Delannoy-Bruno, an undergraduate student from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
Welcome to John Srouji, a graduate student in the MCO Graduate Training Program. John is initiating our collaboration with the lab of Andrés Leschziner.
A temporary farewell to Trieu Ton, who will be studying in China for the rest of 2009, but will be back in 2010.
Check out Cassandra featured in Shooting Stars: Check out these faculty ballers! in The Harvard Crimson Fifteen Minutes Magazine. Click here
Congratulations to Ben Ewen-Campen for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Cassandra Extavour‘s teaching is praised by students in the Harvard Crimson Fifteen Minutes Magazine. Read about it here.
Evelyn Schwager co-authors a review on posterior patterning in spider development, now available from Communicative and Integrative Biology. [pdf]
Evelyn Schwager co-authors a paper on anterior patterning in spider development, now available from Current Biology. [pdf]
Welcome to postdoc Evelyn Schwager, who joined the lab after competing her PhD thesis with Wim Damen.
Frederike co-authors a book chapter on developmental genetics in decapod evolution in the Crustacean Issues series book Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. [pdf]
Check out Cassandra in Management for Beginners: So you’re a principal investigator – now what? by The Scientist. Click here.
Welcome to Ben Ewen-Campen, a graduate student in the OEB Graduate Training Program.
Welcome to postdoc Frederike Alwes, who has joined the lab after completing her PhD thesis with Gerhard Scholtz.
A paper on emerging model organisms by a consortium of evo-devo-eco researchers, including Cassandra Extavour as a co-author, is now available from Trends in Genetics. [pdf]
Cassandra Extavour is interviewed on lab management for junior PIs by The Scientist. Read about it here.
Welcome to Alessandro König and Elisabeth Maritschnegg, undergraduate students from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and to Trieu Ton, a Harvard College sophomore.
Congratulations to Trieu Ton for receiving a fellowship from the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP).
Welcome to Abel Assefa, who joins the lab as a research assistant after obtaining his BSc in physics from Grinnell College.
Cassandra Extavour is interviewed on hiring challenges and techniques for junior PIs by Nature. [pdf]
Welcome to masters student Friedemann Linsler, who is a student at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
Welcome to Chiamaka Nwakeze, a Harvard College sophomore.
The Wessel lab, including Cassandra Extavour as a co-author, publishes a paper on vasa expression in sea urchin embryos, now available from Developmental Biology. [pdf]
Cassandra Extavour‘s book chapter on the evolution of germ plasm specification mechanisms in the book Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is now available from with Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
Welcome to Katherine O’Leary, a Harvard College freshman.
Key transitions in animal evolution! Featured in Integrative and Comparative Biology. Article here
