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Cassandra Extavour2025-07-01 08:00:092025-07-21 16:59:00Melvin Williams
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Cassandra Extavour2025-06-19 12:55:472025-07-08 19:21:47Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics – Dahlem Colloquium Interview
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Cassandra Extavour2024-10-01 18:37:052025-05-13 13:53:28Daniella An Haber
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Cassandra Extavour2024-01-03 18:03:332024-04-11 14:30:42Petra Kovacikova
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Cassandra Extavour2022-04-27 00:28:452025-11-04 02:03:53Upendra Bhattarai
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Cassandra Extavour2021-09-22 14:18:412025-07-11 14:20:12Faisal AlZabenLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
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Cassandra Extavour2025-08-06 16:21:582025-08-06 16:30:35Emily’s manuscript on the evolution of Oskar function in Drosophila is now posted on bioRxiv!
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Cassandra Extavour2025-06-17 09:00:002025-07-08 19:25:20Cassandra was interviewed for a “Meet the Speaker QA&” during her visit to the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics.
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Cassandra Extavour2025-06-11 13:46:472025-06-20 15:25:17Isobel’s work on determining sex in ticks is discussed by the Harvard Gazette!
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Cassandra Extavour2025-05-06 16:27:412025-08-06 16:46:26Anastasia’s manuscript on the molecular mechanism of Oskar function in Drosophila is now posted on bioRxiv!
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Cassandra Extavour2024-03-05 20:42:312024-03-05 20:42:31Welcome sabbatical visitor Enrique Martín-Blanco!
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Cassandra Extavour2024-03-05 01:35:182024-03-05 01:37:27MCB Spotlight Article on postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi!
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Cassandra Extavour2024-02-21 15:55:012024-02-21 16:04:45New Interview with Cassandra in Quanta Magazine!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-11-10 15:50:262024-02-21 15:55:19Congratulations to Rishabh Kapoor!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-09-28 15:49:442024-02-21 15:50:18Congratulations to Anastasia Repouliou!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-08-22 18:27:122023-08-31 14:23:44Congratulations to Isobel Ronai on her LSRF Fellowship!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-08-22 18:22:142023-08-31 14:23:52Welcome new postdoc Damien Markus!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-07-26 03:53:582023-08-31 14:18:04Cassandra is named a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-06-29 09:00:582023-07-25 19:16:03Congratulations to Anastasia Repouliou!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-06-29 09:00:492023-07-25 19:15:47Congratulations to Emily Rivard!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-05-08 09:00:512023-07-25 19:16:19Congratulations to Rishabh Kapoor!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-05-08 09:00:172023-07-25 19:16:34Welcome new postdoc Sonali Gandhi!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-04-03 09:00:162023-07-26 00:18:06Congratulations to Olakunle Jaiyesimi!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-04-03 09:00:102023-07-25 19:17:09Congratulations to Mandira Katuwal!
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Cassandra Extavour2023-01-31 19:25:012023-01-31 19:25:13Welcome new postdoc Kirsten Gotting!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-12-13 02:39:082022-12-13 02:39:50Welcome new graduate student Faisal AlZaben!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-10-28 01:11:202022-10-28 01:15:17Arpita and Ben’s manuscript on a novel role for oskar in long term memory in crickets is now posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.
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Cassandra Extavour2022-10-24 18:17:352022-10-28 01:11:36Welcome new postdoc Mandira Katuwal!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-09-16 09:00:132023-07-25 19:15:33Congratulations to Suhrid Ghosh!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-08-17 13:19:492022-09-09 19:17:29Extavour Lab’s Cricket Embryo Research Highlighted in New York Times
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Cassandra Extavour2022-07-28 14:24:002022-09-09 19:17:48The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos
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Cassandra Extavour2022-07-28 14:23:102022-09-09 19:18:18How Wandering Nuclei Shape Developing Embryos
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Cassandra Extavour2022-06-22 10:00:422022-10-28 01:12:40Seth and Taro’s manuscript on nuclear movements in cricket embryos is now in press at Nature Communications!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-06-01 09:00:362022-10-28 01:12:58Welcome new postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-05-20 14:21:232022-10-28 01:13:12Welcome new postdocs Suhrid Ghosh and Polpass Arul Jose!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-04-25 17:35:432022-10-28 01:13:25Welcome new postdocs Upendra Bhattarai and Isobel Ronai!
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Cassandra Extavour2022-03-30 16:17:352022-10-28 01:14:04Welcome postdoc Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi! Chandra joins us through the QBio Fellowship Program.
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Cassandra Extavour2022-02-10 16:29:442022-10-28 01:14:30Congrats to Adriana Aguilar-Maldonado for passing her qualifying exam!
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Cassandra Extavour2021-10-07 15:33:312021-10-07 15:40:03Congratulations to Anastasia Repouliou for her Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship!
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Cassandra Extavour2021-04-26 14:25:072021-04-28 15:14:57Carrie and Arpita’s preprint titled “Evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads” has been posted to bioRxiv!
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Cassandra Extavour2020-06-03 14:42:342021-02-01 15:52:09Congrats to Dwayne Evans on his episode on the My Fave Queer Chemist Podcast!
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Cassandra Extavour2020-04-08 12:24:382020-04-08 12:25:15Extavour Lab highlighted by video Wiki “5 Laboratories Conducting Important Biology Research”
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Cassandra Extavour2019-10-21 15:00:032020-04-28 17:08:47Arpita’s chapter on the “The Cricket
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-21 14:56:402020-04-28 17:09:28Carrie and Arpita’s preprint on the “Evidence of multifaceted functions of codon usage in translation within the model beetle
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-21 14:54:592019-10-21 14:56:32Carrie and Arpita’s preprint on the “Absence of a faster-X effect in beetles (Tribolium, Coleoptera)” is now available on bioRxiv!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-21 14:48:052020-01-10 20:48:47Taro and Austen’s paper on the “Hox genes limit germ cell formation in the short germ insect
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-21 14:20:252019-10-21 14:37:14Congratulations to Honghao Song for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2019-2020
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-21 14:16:512019-10-21 14:37:28Congratulations to Dwayne Evans for receiving the HCBI Simmons Award for 2019-2020!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-18 18:27:162023-04-10 15:52:16Carrie’s and Arpita’s work on molecular evolution of X linked genes in Tribolium posted on bioRxiv!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-09-13 10:48:052020-01-07 23:56:56New Face: Sous Exta(vour)
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Cassandra Extavour2019-08-21 14:52:182020-01-10 20:49:12Taro’s paper on “Injecting
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Cassandra Extavour2019-08-21 14:04:232019-10-21 14:37:47Farewell and best of luck to E3 REU program participant, Nicole Marquez!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-08-21 13:57:212019-10-21 14:49:26Farewell and congratulations to Aracely Newton, who is now an Assistant Professor at Missouri State University!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-07-21 14:45:102019-10-21 14:49:39Sam 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!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-07-21 14:13:112019-10-21 14:43:40Welcome to Dwayne Evans, graduate student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences training program!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-06-21 14:26:402020-01-10 20:50:33Sam and Seth’s paper on insect egg size and shape evolution has been published in Nature!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-06-21 13:59:472019-10-21 14:09:22Welcome to Nicole Marquez, an E3 REU Program participant from the University of Puerto Rico!
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Cassandra Extavour2019-04-21 14:12:172019-10-21 14:44:19Welcome to Beatrice Steinert, a Masters student in OEB!
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awp-admin2019-02-17 11:50:042019-07-10 17:03:09Read an interview with Cassandra!
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