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Lab News
Katie and Leslie's new review is out: Reding, K. and Pick, L. (2025) Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes.Current Opinion in Insect Science 68: 101317 doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2024.101317
April 2024
Congratulations Kristen Au for successfully completing her M.S. defense!
We are pleased to welcome Carter Dierlam back to the lab. Carter has now joined our lab for his Ph.D. thesis work in the BISI/MOCB Graduate Program.
March 2024
Congratulations to Minh Le for winning a Summer Fellowship Award from UMD's Graduate school.
November 2024
Congratulations to Katie Reding and Kristen Au for their recent publications:
April 2024
Congratulations to Ximena for being elected as Trainee Representative for the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology!
We are pleased to welcome Tevyur Mosely to the lab as a new Ph.D. student from the BISI/MOCB program
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Reding for her outstanding Ph.D. Thesis research and for sailing through her thesis defense this week!
January 2024
Katie and Leslie's new review is out: Reding, K. and Pick, L. (2025) Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes.Current Opinion in Insect Science 68: 101317 doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2024.101317
April 2024
Congratulations Kristen Au for successfully completing her M.S. defense!
We are pleased to welcome Carter Dierlam back to the lab. Carter has now joined our lab for his Ph.D. thesis work in the BISI/MOCB Graduate Program.
March 2024
Congratulations to Minh Le for winning a Summer Fellowship Award from UMD's Graduate school.
November 2024
Congratulations to Katie Reding and Kristen Au for their recent publications:
- Pick, L. and Au, K. (2024) A conserved sequence that sparked the field of evo-devo. Developmental Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.11.005
- Reding, K., Chung, M., Heath, A., Dunning Hotopp, J. and Pick, L. (2024) Same rule, different genes: Blimp1 is a new pair-rule gene in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Science Advances 10(46):eadq9045. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adq9045 PMCID: PMC11566998
April 2024
Congratulations to Ximena for being elected as Trainee Representative for the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology!
We are pleased to welcome Tevyur Mosely to the lab as a new Ph.D. student from the BISI/MOCB program
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Reding for her outstanding Ph.D. Thesis research and for sailing through her thesis defense this week!
January 2024
- We welcome Tevyur Mosley (MOCB student) for a rotation in our lab
- Many congratulations to Katie Reding for being awarded the Charles Reichelderfer Memorial Mentorship Award, given in recognition of graduate students who have fostered the careers of other trainees in the lab through hands-on mentorhsip. Well deserved Katie with much appreciation all your mentees!
- A bittersweet farewell to Tricia Graham who is starting an early retirement. Thank you Tricia for all the great contributions to our lab group!
- Congratulations to Katie Reding for the well-deserved Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
- Congratulations to Alys Jarvela and Judy Wexler, former Pick lab postdocs, on the publication of their opinion piece in Development, Genes and Evolution
- Check out our most recent paper, just accepted for Developmental Biology on the dispensability of the ftz upstream element
- Katie will present a talk on the genetic tools she has developed for Oncopeltus on Tuesday, Nov. 7 in the 1:30 session at ESA on "Tools for Transgenics and Genome Editing in Emerging Models for Insect Functional Genomics"
- Congrats to Ximena Gutierrez Ramos for honorable mention in the Postdoctoral Research Symposium Poster Competition for her poster, “The Pax genes of Vanessa cardui, the painted lady butterfly. "
- We are excited to welcome Muhammad Salim Hakeemi (Salim) to our lab!
- We wish Ebony all the best for the start of her Ph.D. program at the University of California, San Diego!
- Congratulations to Ebony Argaez on earning her M.S. from our department on her work on RNAi in Oncopeltus
- Good luck to Matthew Fischer who is leaving us to start postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania
- We welcome Kristen Au to our lab! Kristen is a first year graduate student in the MOCB program.
- Judy Wexler's paper was just published online in Developmental Biology
- Our Oncopeltus vermillion paper is published in Scientific Reports online. Please let us know if you would like our mutants.
- Congratulations to Matthew Fischer for the successful defense of his Ph.D. Thesis!