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September 2019

Congratulations to Reding et al. for their recent publication in Development entitled "Shifting roles of Drosophila pair-rule gene orthologs: segmental expression and function in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus"

August 2019

Congratulations to Judy as she starts a postdoctoral fellowship in the Life Sciences at the Hebrew University. We'll miss you!
Leslie, Katie, Jessica, Matthew and Ebony attended the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology conference at the University of Miami. Katie presented a poster entitled " Combining RNA-seq and a candidate gene approach to probe the segmentation gene network of a sequentially segmenting insect Oncopeltus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Jessica presented a poster entitled "Isolation of Drosophila pair-rule gene orthologs from the harlequin bug Murgantia histrionica (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Ebony presented a poster entitled "A mechanism-based strategy to asses risks of RNA interference in diverse insects".

July 2019:

We visited the Insect Transformation Facility Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research. for their 2019 IGTRCN Technical Workshop. Leslie gave a lecture on RNAi and Katie, Patricia and Ebony helped with the embryo, larvae and adult injection modules.

June 2019:

Ebony and Katie designed the logo for the Pan-American Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (see image on the right)

May 2019:

Congratulations to Abhi Giri and Terresita Hernandez Arriola on their graduations!
Congratulations to Catherine Trelstad for receiving the Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship for the spring 2019 semester and James Digel who received it for Fall 2019.

April 2019:

Judy wrote a blog article for Insect Genetic Technologies Research Coordination Network on the genetic modification of the common silverfish, Thermobia domestica called, Heritable Gene Editing in Thermobia domestica
Our lab participated with an international collaboration of researchers to sequence the genome of the milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus. This work was recently published in Genome Biology entitled "Molecular evolutionary trends and feeding ecology diversification in the Hemiptera, anchored by the milkweed bug genome"

March 2019:

Congratulations to Graham et al. for their recent publication in Developmental Biology entitled "Dynamic expression of Drosophila segmental cell surface-encoding genes and their pair-rule regulators"

January 2019: