Seth and Taro’s preprint titled “Local density determines nuclear movements during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket” has been posted to bioRxiv!
Congratulations to Beatrice Steinert for passing her qualifying exam!
Congratulations to Sam Church for defending his thesis and obtaining his PhD!
Carrie and Arpita’s preprint titled “Evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads” has been posted to bioRxiv!
Congrats to Dwayne Evans for receiving the 2021 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship!
Carrie, Arpita and Nina’s paper titled “Adaptation of codon and amino acid use for translational functions in highly expressed cricket genes” has been published in BMC Genomics!
Cassandra has been featured on POC Squared! A blog dedicated to Putting People of Colour Into The Equation!
Congratulations to Honghao Song for passing her qualifying exam!
Cassandra has been included in the list of 1000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America! Posted by The Community of Scholars. Cell Mentor: From Cell Press & Cell Signaling Technology. Article here
And the Oskar goes to: germ-soma differentiation in insects! Check out Cassandra on Episode 54 of the Big Biology Podcast with Marty Martin and Art Woods.
Check out Cassandra’s interview on the Alan Alda’s Clear and Vivid podcast! Episode titled “How oskar the gene invented sex“
Congratulations to Leo Blondel for defending his thesis and obtaining his PhD!
Music and Science with Cassandra Extavour! Check out Cassandra on Episode 8 of The Handel and Haydn Society‘s Tuning In Podcast, with Guy Fishman.
Congratulations to Emily Rivard for passing her qualifying exam!
Tarun and Leo‘s paper titled “Topology-driven analysis of protein-protein interaction networks detects functional genetic modules regulating reproductive capacity” has been published on elife!
Congratulations to Beatrice Steinert for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2020-2021!
Congratulations to Emily Rivard for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2020-2021!
Congratulations to Honghao Song for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2020-2021!
Congratulations to Dwayne Evans for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2020-2021!
Carrie, Arpita and Nina’s preprint titled “Adaptation of codon and amino acid use for translational functions in highly expressed cricket genes” has been posted to bioRxiv!
