Yousuf Hashmi

Yousuf Hashmi

Research Assistant


Education:

B.Sc.,University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:
I began work with Drosophila studying the mechanism of larval hemocyte transdifferentiation in the Brückner lab at UCSF during my undergraduate studies.
After graduation, I worked as a research assistant in the Perrimon lab at the Harvard Medical School, developing in vivo technologies such as prime editing, nanobody-directed protein degradation, and S2-cell based CRISPR screens.
In the Extavour lab, I aim to improve functional genetics approaches for new model Hemimetabola, and to characterize Oskar-phospholipid interactions.
Publications while at Extavour Lab:

Husbandry and Maintenance of Carausius morosus Laboratory Populations. Macy Ingersoll, Petra Kovacikova, Yousuf Hashmi, & Cassandra G. Extavour bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.19.706905 (2026). [PubMed]