At the Society for Developmental Biology 80th Annual Meeting, Matthew presented a poster entitled "ftz expression and insect viability do not require the zebra or upstream elements in Drosophila melanogaster" and made it to the semi-finalist round in the best student poster competition. Congratulations ^_^
June 2021
We welcome Abigail Heath to the lab as a new undergraduate researcher!
May 2021
Congratulations to Omid, Daniel and Cady on their graduations! Omid and Daniel are graduating with Honors in Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Cady is graduating with Honors in Biology.
January 2021
Congratulations to Alys for being promoted to Research Assistant Scientist!
At the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Virtual Annual Meeting 2021, Alys gave a 10 minute paper presentation entitled "Genome editing in mosquitos reveals regulatory gene function handoff" during the Evo-Devo: Deep Homology Session
November 2020
At ESA 2020 Virtual Annual meeting, Alys gave a 10 minute paper presentation entitled "Genome editing in mosquitos reveals regulatory gene function handoff"
Congratulations to Katie for passing her qualifying exam!!
October 2020
At the Biodiversity Genomics Conference (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Alys gave a virtual oral presentation entitled "Genome editing in mosquitos reveals regulatory gene function handoff"
We have an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the re-wiring of regulatory genes in insects. For more info, click here.
Alys gave a virtual oral presentation entitled "Genome editing in mosquitos reveals regulatory gene function handoff" at the Protostome functional genetics: Tribolium & Friends Symposium Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Society)
Congratulations to Alys, Catherine, and Leslie for their recent publication in Communications Biology entitled "Regulatory gene function handoff allows essential gene loss in mosquitos". You can read UMD's press release, here.
Alys, lead author blogs about her recent paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution, here.
August 2020
Congratulations to Jessica as she starts graduate school in the Molecular & Cellular Physiology program at John Hopkins University School of Medicine. We wish you the best!
We welcome Ashley Zavodnick to the lab as a new undergraduate researcher!
Congratulations to Katie and Leslie for their recent publication in Genetics entitled "High Efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis of the white Gene in the Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus"
July 2020
We would like to welcome James Digel as a full time research assistant! 🎉
