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!
Congratulations to Dwayne Evans for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2019-2020!
New Face: Sous Exta(vour) Check out Cassandra featured in Stylist: le magazine hebdomaire riche et gratuit. Paris, France. No. 262, p. 18. August 29, 2019. Stylist Vol. 262 Viewer
Taro’s paper on “Injecting Gryllus bimaculatus Eggs” has been published in JoVE! PDF
Farewell and best of luck to E3 REU program participant, Nicole Marquez from the University of Puerto Rico – Cayey!
Farewell and congratulations to Aracely Newton, who is now an Assistant Professor at Missouri State University!
Sam and Seth’s paper on “A dataset of egg size and shape from more than 6,700 insect species” has been published in Scientific Data! PDF
Welcome to Dwayne Evans, graduate student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences training program!
Check out Didem Sarikaya’s feature in Different Strokes for Different Fly Folks: Study Links Reproductive Evolution of Hawaiian Flies to Environment!
Check out Cassandra’s feature in Sinfonía celular with Gemma Marfany in El Nactional.CAT
Check out Extavour lab research data featured in Science News! Why some insect eggs are spherical while others look like hot dogs.
Check out Cassandra, Sam and Seth’s work featured in Ecology, Not Physics, Explains Diversity of Insect Eggs – The Scientist! Article here
Check out Cassandra discussing published work about how ecology predicts egg shape and size in the Harvard Gazette! Article here
Cassandra Extavour, the biologist using insect eggs to overturn evolutionary doctrine! A news feature in Nature. Article here
