{"id":2,"date":"2013-07-15T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:25:27","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"Lab News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>New work from our collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/tropbiolab.org\/JACU\/\">Al Uy<\/a>&#8216;s lab on the genomics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/full\/10.1073\/pnas.2503746122\">neo-sex chromosomes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosgenetics\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pgen.1011360\">speciation<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/tropbiolab.org\/JACU\/Research\/Proj02.html\">honeyeaters<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/78981\"><em>eLife<\/em> paper<\/a> on <em>Segregation Distorter<\/em> supergene in African <em>D. melanogaster<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Welcome to new PhD student, Emiliano Marti, who will be co-advised with Amanda Larracuente!<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-021-01543-8\"><em>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolutio<\/em>n<\/a> paper on the rapid evolution of\u00a0cryptic sex ratio drive gene family and its suppressors in the <em>D. simulans<\/em> clade, with nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-021-01601-1\"><em>News &amp; Views<\/em><\/a>\u00a0piece from Aaron Vogan.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, recipient of the University of Rochester&#8217;s 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Natural Sciences!<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/35468\"><em>eLife<\/em> paper<\/a>\u00a0on gene flow and meiotic drive during speciation is out, with lab buddy, Colin Meiklejohn.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the new special issue of <em>Molecular Ecology<\/em> on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/toc\/1365294x\/2018\/27\/19\">Sex Chromosomes and Speciation<\/a>&#8220;, edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/payseur.genetics.wisc.edu\">Bret Payseur<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biology.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dmitry-filatov\">Dmitry Filatov<\/a>, and Daven.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation! \u00a0She&#8217;s off to postdoc with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.sas.upenn.edu\/levine-lab\/\">Mia Levine<\/a>\u00a0at UPenn.<\/li>\n<li>New postdoc, Beatriz Navarro Dominguez, joins the Presgraves &amp; Larracuente labs to tackle problems at the intersection of speciation and satellite DNA evolution.<\/li>\n<li>March 2018 &#8211; Cara lands a talk at the 2018 Joint Conference on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier.<\/li>\n<li>March 2018 &#8211; Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(18)30241-0\">new paper<\/a> on a gene that mediates the evolution of recombination landscapes between two <em>Drosophila<\/em> species is in press at <em>Current Biology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>August 2016 &#8211; Farewell &amp; good luck to Dr. Emily Landeen, who&#8217;s off to join <a href=\"http:\/\/ib.berkeley.edu\/labs\/bachtrog\/\">Doris Bachtrog<\/a>&#8216;s group at UC Berkeley!<\/li>\n<li>July 2016 &#8211; Our <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1002499\">new paper<\/a> on X suppression and its evolutionary consequences is out in <em>PLoS Biology.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>March 2016 &#8211; Congratulations to Dr. Emily Landeen, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, &#8220;Investigating the molecular genetic basis of the large X-effect in Drosophila speciation&#8221;!<\/li>\n<li>May 2015 &#8211; Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received a DeLill Nasser Travel Award from the Genetics Society of America!<\/li>\n<li>May 2015 &#8211; Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received\u00a0the University of Rochester&#8217;s Messersmith Graduate\u00a0Fellowship Award!<\/li>\n<li>May 2014 &#8211; Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers&#8211; Ben Goulet, Justin Roncaioli, and Nick Love&#8211; who received their B.S. degrees. \u00a0And special congratulations to Ben Goulet, who graduates with\u00a0multiple honors: he was selected\u00a0to be the\u00a02014\u00a0Biology Class Speaker, he received a degree\u00a0with Distinction in Research, and he received the Grace McCormack Award.<\/li>\n<li>May 2014 &#8211; Zhenguo Zhang joins the lab as a new postdoc\u00a0to work on evolutionary genomics of gene expression in the Drosophila male germline.<\/li>\n<li>February 2014 &#8211; Congratulations to Cara Brand who has received a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant!<\/li>\n<li>December 2013 &#8211; Dr. Robert (Bort) Edwards joins the lab to work on the large X-effect and complex speciation between <em>Drosophila simulans<\/em> and <em>D. mauritiana<\/em><\/li>\n<li>July 2013 &#8211; Two new postdoc positions available in evolutionary genetics\/genomics.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to Colin Meiklejohn! He will join the University of Nebraska&#8217;s School of Biological Sciences as a new faculty member in January 2014!<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente! She will join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/graduate\/e2g2.html\">EEB group<\/a> in the University of Rochester&#8217;s Department of Biology as a new faculty member in January 2015!<\/li>\n<li>January 2013 &#8211; New postdoc position available in speciation genetics &amp; genomics<\/li>\n<li>November 2012 &#8211; Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente on her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/training\/nrsa.htm\">NIH-NRSA<\/a>\u00a0Postdoctoral Fellowship Award!<\/li>\n<li>Our paper on speciation genomics of the\u00a0<em>Drosophila simulans<\/em>\u00a0clade appears in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/genome.cshlp.org\/content\/22\/8\/1499.long\">Genome Research<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>July 2012 &#8211; Vicky presents at\u00a0AGA&#8217;s Recombination Meeting<\/li>\n<li>February 2012 &#8211; Our friend and colleague Colin Meiklejohn moves to Indiana University<\/li>\n<li>February 2012 &#8211; Dr. Victoria Cattani defended her PhD dissertation: Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in\u00a0<em>Drosophila<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Amanda Larracuente joins the lab!<\/li>\n<li>Soojin Yi (Georgia Tech) and Daven join the debate about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0169534709001906\">complex speciation<\/a>\u00a0between humans and chimpanzees<\/li>\n<li>Vicky receives a NSF-DDIG award<\/li>\n<li>Daven receives a\u00a02009 Sloan Research Fellowship<\/li>\n<li>Daven receives a\u00a02008 David &amp; Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science &amp; Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Colin lands big NSF award to study the evolution of transcriptional regulation<\/li>\n<li>Vicky &amp; Shanwu present their work at the Evolution Meetings in Minneapolis<\/li>\n<li>Daven is awarded the 2008\u00a0Balfour Lecture\u00a0from the Genetics Society<\/li>\n<li>Daven heads to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/\">Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<\/a>\u00a0at Harvard University as the 2008-2009 Grass Fellow<\/li>\n<li>Anjuli Cherukuri wins the University of Rochester&#8217;s Janet Howell Clark Prize\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0the Donald Charles Prize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New work from our collaboration with Al Uy&#8216;s lab on the genomics of neo-sex chromosomes and speciation in honeyeaters! New eLife paper on Segregation Distorter supergene in African D. melanogaster Welcome to new PhD student, Emiliano Marti, who will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?p=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}