Sam’s new preprint on the evolution of insect ovaries has been posted to bioRxiv!
Check out Extavour Lab research on the oskar origins featured in A gene with an unexpected origin! – A 2020 Cool Paper
Congrats to Dwayne Evans on his episode on the My Fave Queer Chemist Podcast!
Horizontal helper! Check out Cassandra and Leo’s feature in the Harvard Gazette discussing how oskar plays a critical role in the creation of germ cells in some insects.
Cassandra was named a Harvard College Professor for her contributions to research, mentoring and teaching at Harvard. Read the entire article here.
Sam and Cassandra‘s piece on null hypotheses in evo-devo has been published in Development! PDF
Extavour Lab highlighted by video Wiki “5 Laboratories Conducting Important Biology Research”
Leo and Tamsin‘s work on the role of horizontal gene transfer in the birth of the oskar gene been published in eLife! PDF
Welcome to Emily Rivard, graduate student in MCB!
Welcome to Jonchee Kao, graduate student in MCB!
Welcome to Nina Chung, Arthropod Care Assistant & Undergraduate Student at Harvard College!
Carrie and Arpita’s paper on the “Evidence of multifaceted functions of codon usage in translation within the model beetle Tribolium castaneum” is now in press in DNA Research! PDF
Welcome to Ivy Tran, Undergraduate Student at Harvard College!
Arpita‘s chapter on the “The Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus” has been published in Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, Volume 68! PDF
Check out Sam‘s feature in V, J.-B. Science & Vie. Insectes : la forme de leurs œufs dépend de l’endroit où ils pondent. No. 1224, September 2019, p.24
Carrie and Arpita‘s preprint on the “Evidence of multifaceted functions of codon usage in translation within the model beetle Tribolium castaneum” is now available on bioRxiv! PDF
Carrie and Arpita’s preprint on the “Absence of a faster-X effect in beetles (Tribolium, Coleoptera)” is now available on bioRxiv! PDF
Taro and Austen’s paper on the “Hox genes limit germ cell formation in the short germ insect Gryllus bimaculatus” has been published in PNAS! PDF
Congratulations to Honghao Song for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2019-2020!