Farewell and congratulations to Diede de Haan, who is off to become a PhD student at the Weizmann Institute in the Gal lab!
Some of the many animals that our lab has worked with over the years were featured in the original logo of the 2018 annual retreat of the MCB Department! This beautiful log was designed by Haneui Bae. Read more about the retreat here.
Visualizing Embryo Development in Virtual Reality
Graduate student Leo Blondel was awarded the prize for Best Poster, at the 2018 annual retreat of the MCB Department!. Leo is developing open-source virtual reality tools for “experiencing” high content imaging datasets of developing embryos. Read more about the retreat here.
Austen and Taro’s preprint suggesting a role for Hox genes is now available on bioRxiv! [PDF]
Welcome to Honghao Song, a graduate student in the OEB graduate training program!
Welcome to Maitreyi Upadhyay, a postdoc who will be working on ovarian development in Drosophila!
Farewell and congratulations to Seth Donoughe, who is now a University Fellow and Jane Coffin Childs postdoc at the University of Chicago, working with Sally Horne-Badovinac and Ed Munro!
Farewell and congratulations to Taro Nakamura, who is now an Assistant Professor in the Division of Evolutionary Biology at the National Institute for Basic Biology!
Cassandra is a Co-PI on a 5 million dollar award fom the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, to establish the NSF/Simons Center for the Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology at Harvard University. This is one of four NSF/Simons-funded centers in the US that will support novel research that aims to develop and use new mathematical and statistical tools to understand biological problems, particularly cell fate acquisiiton, self-assembly, and morphogenesis. At Harvard, we will work closely with the Quantitative Biology Initiative. Read the Harvard Gazette article.
Seth’s paper on a customizable device for injecting and imaging large numbers of embryos at once is accepted for publication in Biology Open.
Farewell and congratulations to Eva van der Heijden, who completed her rotation in our lab for her Masters through the MEME program in Evolutionary Biology!
Professor blazing a trail for Black women in science! Check out Cassandra’s feature in Share Magazine. Article here.
Interview of Dr. Cassandra Extavour by Crimson Summer Academy Students Kiara Ramirez and Julianah Adubi.Watch here.
Farewell and congratulations to Savandara Besse, who completed her Master’s and is off to become a PhD student at the University of Montreal in the Pechmann lab!
Farewell and congratulations to Austen Barnett, who is now an Assistant Professor at DeSales University!
Our collaborative paper with Prashant Sharma on the roles of spineless in appendage development and evolution is accepted for publication in Developmental Biology. PDF of uncorrected proof
Arpita‘s paper presenting a hypothesis on the convergent evolution of germ granule nucleators is accepted for publication in Stem Cell Research. PDF of uncorrected proof
Farewell and congratulations to John Srouji, who leaves us to take up a Research Scientist position at Neon Therapeutics! As the longest-standing member of the lab, we’ll miss you!
Welcome to Jose Carranza, a visiting student supported by a fellowship from the Peruvian National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC)
Carrie‘s paper on the molecular evolution of gonad-biased genes in mosquitoes is accepted for publication in Genetics. PDF of accepted MS
