Lab News!

  • New eLife paper on Segregation Distorter supergene in African D. melanogaster
  • Welcome to new PhD student, Emiliano Marti, who will be co-advised with Amanda Larracuente!
  • New Nature Ecology & Evolution paper on the rapid evolution of cryptic sex ratio drive gene family and its suppressors in the D. simulans clade, with nice News & Views piece from Aaron Vogan.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, recipient of the University of Rochester’s 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Natural Sciences!
  • New eLife paper on gene flow and meiotic drive during speciation is out, with lab buddy, Colin Meiklejohn.
  • Check out the new special issue of Molecular Ecology on “Sex Chromosomes and Speciation“, edited by Bret Payseur, Dmitry Filatov, and Daven.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation!  She’s off to postdoc with Mia Levine at UPenn.
  • New postdoc, Beatriz Navarro Dominguez, joins the Presgraves & Larracuente labs to tackle problems at the intersection of speciation and satellite DNA evolution.
  • March 2018 – Cara lands a talk at the 2018 Joint Conference on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier.
  • March 2018 – Our new paper on a gene that mediates the evolution of recombination landscapes between two Drosophila species is in press at Current Biology.
  • August 2016 – Farewell & good luck to Dr. Emily Landeen, who’s off to join Doris Bachtrog‘s group at UC Berkeley!
  • July 2016 – Our new paper on X suppression and its evolutionary consequences is out in PLoS Biology.
  • March 2016 – Congratulations to Dr. Emily Landeen, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Investigating the molecular genetic basis of the large X-effect in Drosophila speciation”!
  • May 2015 – Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received a DeLill Nasser Travel Award from the Genetics Society of America!
  • May 2015 – Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received the University of Rochester’s Messersmith Graduate Fellowship Award!
  • May 2014 – Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers– Ben Goulet, Justin Roncaioli, and Nick Love– who received their B.S. degrees.  And special congratulations to Ben Goulet, who graduates with multiple honors: he was selected to be the 2014 Biology Class Speaker, he received a degree with Distinction in Research, and he received the Grace McCormack Award.
  • May 2014 – Zhenguo Zhang joins the lab as a new postdoc to work on evolutionary genomics of gene expression in the Drosophila male germline.
  • February 2014 – Congratulations to Cara Brand who has received a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant!
  • December 2013 – Dr. Robert (Bort) Edwards joins the lab to work on the large X-effect and complex speciation between Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana
  • July 2013 – Two new postdoc positions available in evolutionary genetics/genomics.
  • Congratulations to Colin Meiklejohn! He will join the University of Nebraska’s School of Biological Sciences as a new faculty member in January 2014!
  • Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente! She will join the EEB group in the University of Rochester’s Department of Biology as a new faculty member in January 2015!
  • January 2013 – New postdoc position available in speciation genetics & genomics
  • November 2012 – Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente on her NIH-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award!
  • Our paper on speciation genomics of the Drosophila simulans clade appears in Genome Research
  • July 2012 – Vicky presents at AGA’s Recombination Meeting
  • February 2012 – Our friend and colleague Colin Meiklejohn moves to Indiana University
  • February 2012 – Dr. Victoria Cattani defended her PhD dissertation: Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in Drosophila
  • Dr. Amanda Larracuente joins the lab!
  • Soojin Yi (Georgia Tech) and Daven join the debate about complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees
  • Vicky receives a NSF-DDIG award
  • Daven receives a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Daven receives a 2008 David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science & Engineering
  • Colin lands big NSF award to study the evolution of transcriptional regulation
  • Vicky & Shanwu present their work at the Evolution Meetings in Minneapolis
  • Daven is awarded the 2008 Balfour Lecture from the Genetics Society
  • Daven heads to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as the 2008-2009 Grass Fellow
  • Anjuli Cherukuri wins the University of Rochester’s Janet Howell Clark Prize and the Donald Charles Prize