{"id":10032,"date":"2022-11-14T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/?page_id=10032"},"modified":"2024-11-15T04:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T04:26:31","slug":"former-lab-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/people-2\/former-lab-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Former lab members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Former postdocs<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C\u00e9cile Courret, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral associate; EGCE &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay)<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cecile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8532 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cecile-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cecile-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cecile-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cecile.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>e-mail: cecile.courret@rochester.edu<\/div>\n<div>C\u00e9cile earned her PhD in Evolution at the University Paris Saclay (France) in Catherine Montchamp-Moreau\u2019s lab. During her PhD she was interested in the evolution and genetic basis of the genetic conflict induced by sex-linked meiotic drive in <em>Drosophila simulans. <\/em>C\u00e9cile joined the Larracuente lab as a postdoc to study of the role of retroelements in centromere organization and function in Drosophila.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Publications:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Courret, C, Ogereau, G, Larracuente,A.M., and C. Montchamp-Moreau. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2022.12.22.521550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The evolutionary history of Drosophila simulans Y chromosomes reveals molecular signatures of resistance to sex ratio meiotic drive.<\/a> BioRxiv. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2022.12.22.521550<\/li>\n<li>Courret C, G\u00e9rard PR, Ogereau D, Falque M, Moreau L, Montchamp-Moreau C*. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41437-018-0163-1\">X-chromosome meiotic drive in <em>Drosophila simulans<\/em>: a QTL approach reveals the complex polygenic determinism of Paris drive suppression<\/a>. Heredity doi: 10.1038\/s41437-018-0163-1<\/li>\n<li>Helleu Q*, Courret C, Ogereau D, Burnham KL, Chaminade N, Chakir M, Aulard S, Montchamp-Moreau C*. 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31290972\">Sex-ratio meiotic drive shapes the evolution of the Y chromosome in <em>Drosophila simulans<\/em><\/a>. Molecular Biology and Evolution.doi: 10.1093\/molbev\/msz160<\/li>\n<li>Courret C*, Chang CH, Wei K,Montchamp-Moreau C, Larracuente A. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.1430\">Meiotic drive mechanisms: lessons from Drosophila<\/a>. Processing B. doi:10.1098\/rspb.2019.1430<\/li>\n<li>Chen, T.*, Wei, X.*, Courret, C.*, Cui, M., Cheng, L., Wu, J., Ahmad, K., Larracuente, A.M., Rong, Y. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The nanoCUT&amp;RUN technique visualizes telomeric chromatin in Drosophila<\/a>. BIORXIV 4\/22\/22. PLoS Genet 18(9): e1010351. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010351*co-first authors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Xiaolu Wei, Ph.D. ( Postdoctoral associate; University of North Texas)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>e-mail: xwei10@ur.rochester.edu<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8172 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Xiaolu.wei2_-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nXiaolu was a Biomedical Genetics student who recently graduated from that lab. She is now a postdoc\u00a0 in the lab studying how satellite DNA is regulated in the Drosophila germline using functional genomics and cytogenetic approaches. She uses the selfish <em>Segregation Distorter<\/em> system to understand the consequences of misregulating satellite DNA in the male germline. Xiaolu was an Agnes M. Messersmith and George Messersmith fellow for 2020-2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Selected publications:<br \/>\nWei,X., Eickbush,D.G., Speece,I., A.M. Larracuente. 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/62375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heterochromatin-dependent transcription of satellite DNAs in the <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> female germline<\/a>. eLife 2021;10:e62375. doi: <a class=\"doi__link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.62375\">10.7554\/eLife.62375<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chen, T.*, Wei, X.*, Courret, C.*, Cui, M., Cheng, L., Wu, J., Ahmad, K., Larracuente, A.M., Rong, Y. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The nanoCUT&amp;RUN technique visualizes telomeric chromatin in Drosophila<\/a>. BIORXIV 4\/22\/22. PLoS Genet 18(9): e1010351. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010351<\/p>\n<p>*co-first authors<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>John Sproul, Ph.D. (NSF postdoctoral fellow 2018-2020; Assistant Professor Brigham Young University)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>e-mail:jsproul@ur.rochester.edu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SproulPhoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7192 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SproulPhoto-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SproulPhoto-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SproulPhoto.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>John earned his PhD in Integrative Biology at Oregon State University in David Maddison&#8217;s lab. John studied species delimitation, phylogenomics, and repetitive DNA dynamics in ground beetles, and developed methods to improve sequencing results from historical specimens. John joined Amanda&#8217;s lab thorough a NSF-funded fellowship that aims to improve benchmarking and generate pipelines for transposable element annotation software, as well as to increase participation of underrepresented groups in science. John is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Selected recent publications. See full list of publications on John\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=WO5G8PIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">google scholar page<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sproul, J., Khost, D.E.*, Eickbush, D.G., Negm, S., Wei, X., Wong, I., and A.M. Larracuente 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078\/5810089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynamic evolution of euchromatic satellites on the X chromosome in\u00a0<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>\u00a0and the simulans clade.<\/a> BIORXIV\/2019\/846238,\u00a0 Molecular Biology and Evolution,\u00a0 msaa078, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078 *co-first author<\/li>\n<li>Sproul,J.S., Barton, L.M., D.R. Maddison. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.01.03.894527v1.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Repetitive DNA profiles Reveal Evidence of Rapid Genome Evolution and Reflect Species Boundaries in Ground Beetles.<\/a> BIORXIV https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.03.894527<\/li>\n<li>Sproul, J.S.; Maddison, D.R. (2017) Sequencing historical specimens: successful preparation of small specimens with low amounts of degraded DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 17 (6): 1183-1201.<\/li>\n<li>Sproul, J.S.; Maddison, D.R. (2017) Cryptic species in the mountaintops: species delimitation and taxonomy of the breve species group (Carabidae: Bembidion) aided by genomic architecture of a century-old type specimen. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 183 (3): 556-583.<\/li>\n<li>Kanda, K.; Pflug, J.M.; Sproul, J.S.; Dasenko, M.; Maddison, D.R. (2015) Successful Recovery of Nuclear Protein-Coding Genes from Small Insects in Museums Using Illumina Sequencing. PLoS ONE, 10, e0143929.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beatriz Navarro-Dom\u00ednguez, Ph.D. (2018-2021, Postdoc)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>e-mail:\u00a0bnavarr2@ur.rochester.edu<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bea-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7102 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bea-03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bea-03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bea-03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bea-03-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeatriz earned her PhD\u00a0 studying B chromosomes in grasshoppers, in the Evolutionary Genetics Group at the University of Granada (Spain). As a postdoc, she has worked in a variety of organisms, from ferns to turtles, trying to understand how genomes evolve. Beatriz is now studying the population genomics of\u00a0<em>Segregation Distorter<\/em> and the role of satellite DNA in genetic incompatibilities. She was jointly advised by Daven Presgraves and Amanda Larracuente.<\/p>\n<p>Selected recent publications. See full list of publications on Beatriz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1afiir0AAAAJ&amp;hl=es\">google scholar<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beatriz Navarro-Dom\u00ednguez, Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano, Josefa Cabrero, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Corral, Mar\u00eda Dolores L\u00f3pez-Le\u00f3n, Timothy F Sharbel, Juan Pedro M Camacho. 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep45200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Protein-coding genes in B chromosomes of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans<\/a>. Scientific reports 7, 45200.<\/li>\n<li>Beatriz Navarro-Dom\u00ednguez, Josefa Cabrero, Juan Pedro M Camacho, Mar\u00eda Dolores L\u00f3pez-Le\u00f3n. 2016.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00438-016-1228-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B-chromosome effects on Hsp70 gene expression does not occur at transcriptional level in the grasshopper <em>Eyprepocnemis plorans<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0Molecular Genetics and Genomics 291 (5), 1909-1917.<\/li>\n<li>Josefa Cabrero, Mohammed Bakkali, Beatriz Navarro-Dom\u00ednguez, Francisco J Ru\u00edz-Ruano, Rub\u00e9n Mart\u00edn-Bl\u00e1zquez, Mar\u00eda Dolores L\u00f3pez-Le\u00f3n, Juan Pedro M Camacho.\u00a0 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10577-013-9367-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ku70 DNA-repair protein is involved in centromere function in a grasshopper species<\/a>.\u00a0Chromosome research 21 (4), 393-406.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lucas Hemmer, Ph.D. (Postdoc 2018-2021, Computational Biologist, Invaio Sciences)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>e-mail:\u00a0lhemmer@ur.rochester.edu<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7112 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLucas earned his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas in Justin Blumenstiel\u2019s lab. Lucas studied the evolution of meiotic recombination landscapes in different species of Drosophila in light of selfish genetic elements including transposable elements and centromeres. Lucas joined Amanda&#8217;s lab as a postdoc to study centromere evolution in Drosophila.<\/p>\n<p>Recent publications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hemmer L.W. and Blumenstiel J.P.. 2016.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12862-016-0670-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holding it together: rapid evolution and positive selection in the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila.<\/a> BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:91. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12862-016-0670-8.<\/li>\n<li>Blumenstiel J.P., A.A. Erwin, L.W. Hemmer 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5168828\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What Drives Positive Selection in the Drosophila piRNA machinery? The Genomic Autoimmunity Hypothesis<\/a>.\u00a0Yale J Biol Med. 2016 Dec; 89(4): 499\u2013512.<\/li>\n<li>Hemmer L.W. and J.P. Blumenstiel 2018. BioRxiv Preprint 6\/8\/18. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2018\/06\/08\/342824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Recombination Landscape of Drosophila virilis is Robust to Transposon Activation in Hybrid Dysgenesis<\/a>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/342824<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Felix Beaudry, PhD (NSF Postdoctoral fellow, jointly advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/popgenchenlab.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Nancy Chen<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9602 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-1526x1536.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSCF2509-min-2034x2048.jpg 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Felix is interested in the evolution of sex and the evolution of our genomes. Combining quantitative genetics, population genetics and molecular evolution, Felix investigates sex chromosomes and the maintenance of heritable fitness variation in the Florida Scrub Jay. Felix also explores how the genetics of sex is taught, creating teaching plans that clearly distinguish sex from gender in the genetics classroom. For more, see Felix\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/felixbeaudryresearch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">felixbeaudryresearch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Former graduate students:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Matthew Lindsay (E2G2 graduate student; MS)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>e-mail: matthew.lindsay@rochester.edu<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8422 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Matthew.Lindsay-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMatthew joined our lab after finishing his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto as a technician and began as an E2G2 graduate student in Fall 2020. Matthew worked on the population dynamics of <em>Segregation Distorter<\/em> and satellite DNA fitness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ching-Ho Chang (Ph.D. student 2015-2020)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ching-HoChang-e1431626973122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1036 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ching-HoChang-e1431626973122-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ching-HoChang\" width=\"180\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ching-HoChang-e1431626973122-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ching-HoChang-e1431626973122.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ching-Ho was an E2G2 student working on <em>Segregation Distorter<\/em> in <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> and Y chromosome evolution in\u00a0 <em>Drosophila<\/em>. Before coming to Rochester, Ching-Ho worked with Dr. Chau-Ti Ting\u00a0 at National Taiwan University on neo-sex chromosome evolution in <em>Drosophila albomicans<\/em>. Ching-Ho was a recipient of the Ernst Caspari Fellowship and the Messersmith Fellowship. He is a current Damon Runyun fellow in Harmit Malik&#8217;s lab at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center. In 2021, Ching-Ho received the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/genestogenomes.org\/ching-ho-chang-to-give-larry-sandler-memorial-lecture-at-dros21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Sandler award<\/a> for his outstanding dissertation work.<\/p>\n<p>Selected publications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chang, C-H, Chavan, A, Palladino, J.,\u00a0Wei, X., Martins, N.M.C., Santinello, B., Chen, C-C, Erceg, J., Beliveau, B.J., Wu, C-T, Larracuente, A.M., and Mellone, B.G. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3000241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islands of retroelements are major components of <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> centromeres. <\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>BioRxiv Epub 2\/1\/2019. PLoS Biology https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3000241.<a href=\"http:\/\/f1000.com\/prime\/727475751?bd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"bg\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.f1000.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/badges\/badgef1000.gif\" alt=\"Access the recommendation on F1000Prime\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chang, C-H.\u00a0and A.M. Larracuente. 2019. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/211\/1\/333\">Heterochromatin-enriched assemblies reveal the sequence and organization of the <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> Y chromosome.<\/a> BioRxiv 7\/25\/18. GENETICS 211: 333-348. doi: 10.1534\/genetics.118.301765.\u00a0\u00a0<em>featured in GENETICS highlights <\/em>1\/1\/2019 http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/211\/1\/NP<a href=\"http:\/\/f1000.com\/prime\/727475751?bd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"bg\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.f1000.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/badges\/badgef1000.gif\" alt=\"Access the recommendation on F1000Prime\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chang, C-H. and A.M. Larracuente. 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2016\/06\/11\/058412\">Structural changes following the reversal of a Y chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura.<\/a> <em>Evolution<\/em>. Advanced Access 3\/21\/17. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/<span class=\"article-header__meta-info-data\">10.1111\/evo.13229<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Chang C-c, Ting C-T, Chang C-H, Fang S, Chang H-y (2014) <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0113275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Persistence of Facultative Parthenogenesis in <em>Drosophila albomicans<\/em><\/a>. PLoS ONE 9(11): e113275. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0113275<\/li>\n<li>Chia-Hao Cheng, Ching-Ho Chang, and Hwei-yu Chang (2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCcQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fzoolstud.sinica.edu.tw%2FJournals%2F50.3%2F338.pdf&amp;ei=U-ZUVf_kM_PlsASMtYHgCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQ87qBg_FgLsAC5R6YoT8qlLfD7w&amp;sig2=_OVdanXcVWZ6oJkGbr7pLw&amp;bvm=bv.93112503,d.cWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Early-stage evolution of the neo-Y chromosome in <em>Drosophila albomicans<\/em><\/a>. Zoological Studies 50(3): 338-349.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Danielle (Dani) Khost (Ph.D. student 2014-2019<\/strong>)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6522 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20170621_134947715-e1498625274503.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dani was an E2G2 student working on the evolution and functional genomics of satellite DNA in Drosophila species. She\u00a0 used deep real time single molecule sequencing from Pacific Biosciences to study the structural organization of satellite DNA loci in Drosophila genomes. Dani is now in the Harvard University Bioinformatics group.<\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sproul, J., Khost, D.E.*, Eickbush, D.G., Negm, S., Wei, X., Wong, I., and A.M. Larracuente 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078\/5810089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynamic evolution of euchromatic satellites on the X chromosome in\u00a0<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>\u00a0and the simulans clade.<\/a> BIORXIV\/2019\/846238,\u00a0 Molecular Biology and Evolution,\u00a0 msaa078, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078 *co-first author<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<li>Khost, D.E., D. Eickbush, A.M. Larracuente. 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2016\/05\/18\/054155\">Single molecule long read sequencing resolves the detailed structure of complex satellite DNA loci in <em>Drosophila melanogaster.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 <em>Genome Research<\/em> . Advanced Access. 4\/3\/17. <a href=\"http:\/\/genome.cshlp.org\/content\/early\/2017\/04\/03\/gr.213512.116\">http:\/\/www.genome.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1101\/gr.213512.116<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/f1000.com\/prime\/727475751?bd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"bg\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.f1000.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/badges\/badgef1000.gif\" alt=\"Access the recommendation on F1000Prime\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Recently graduated undergrads:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Julia Granato (undergraduate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9562 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868-1006x1024.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868-1508x1536.jpg 1508w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_7885-1-scaled-e1635272383868.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia is an EEB\/Archaeology double major helping with <em>Segregation Distorter <\/em>projects. Julia worked with our flies that have mutations in their satellite DNA that we made using CRISPR\/Cas9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miraz Sadi (undergraduate, Biochemistry)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9522 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983-1024x955.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983-768x716.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983-1536x1433.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5C5DCB9B-0692-4DDD-9107-09F4CFCB2BE7-scaled-e1635167158983.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miraz worked on centromere evolution in the <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> clade. He was a recipient of a DeKiewiet Fellowship for undergraduate research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherif Negm (undergraduate; Comp Bio\/Data Science)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sherif.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7842 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sherif-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sherif-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sherif.jpeg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sherif is using computational methods to study \u00a0repeat evolution in Drosophila. He has contributed to several projects ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">euchromatic satellite DNA evolution<\/a> to\u00a0 designing a pipeline called <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1755-0998.13305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RepeatProfiler<\/a> to study repeats with short read sequence data. He was a recipient of a DeKiewiet Fellowship for undergraduate research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sherif Negm, Anya D. Greenberg, Amanda M. Larracuente, John S. Sproul. 2020. RepeatProfiler: a pipeline for visualization and comparative analysis of repetitive DNA profiles. BioRxiv 5\/26\/2020. Molecular Ecology Resources. 12\/2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1755-0998.13305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1755-0998.13305<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sproul, J., Khost, D.E.*, Eickbush, D.G., Negm, S., Wei, X., Wong, I., and A.M. Larracuente 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078\/5810089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynamic evolution of euchromatic satellites on the X chromosome in\u00a0<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>\u00a0and the simulans clade.<\/a> BIORXIV\/2019\/846238,\u00a0 Molecular Biology and Evolution,\u00a0 msaa078, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078 *co-first autho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuan Pham (undergraduate; Computational Biology)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8872 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TuanPham-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TuanPham-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TuanPham.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuan is a computational biology major working on various satellite DNA projects in the lab, from detecting homologous repeats across species to building pipelines to annotate revised mappability scores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eddyson Altidor (undergraduate; Biology)<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/eddyson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7822 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/eddyson-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/eddyson-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/eddyson-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/eddyson-937x1024.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eddyson used molecular methods to study variation in centromeric retroelements in Drosophila.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gefei (Vera) Yu (undergraduate; Computational Biology)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8602 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vera used genomic approaches to study patterns of expression in the <em>Segregation Distorter <\/em>system<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anya Greenberg (undergraduate; Data Science)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/anyaGreenberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8022 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/anyaGreenberg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/anyaGreenberg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/anyaGreenberg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/anyaGreenberg-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anya was a data science student working on developing a bioinformatic pipeline to study repeats (RepeatProfiler) and using methods in machine learning to study satellite DNA evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<p>Sherif Negm, Anya D. Greenberg, Amanda M. Larracuente, John S. Sproul. 2020. RepeatProfiler: a pipeline for visualization and comparative analysis of repetitive DNA profiles. BioRxiv 5\/26\/2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.05.22.111252v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.22.111252<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaac Wong (undergraduate)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6082 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Isaac_Wong-e1491271808971.jpg 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaac used computational and cytogenetic methods to study repeat evolution in fireflies and Drosophila species.<\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sproul, J., Khost, D.E.*, Eickbush, D.G., Negm, S., Wei, X., Wong, I., and A.M. Larracuente 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078\/5810089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynamic evolution of euchromatic satellites on the X chromosome in\u00a0<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>\u00a0and the simulans clade.<\/a> BIORXIV\/2019\/846238,\u00a0 Molecular Biology and Evolution,\u00a0 msaa078, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/molbev\/msaa078 *co-first author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylar Mouton (undergraduate)<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TaylarMouton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6412 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TaylarMouton-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TaylarMouton-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TaylarMouton.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylar studied the function of multi-copy Y-linked gene families in <em>D. melanogaster<\/em> and the <em>simulans<\/em> clade species. Taylar successfully defended her senior thesis and graduated with honors in research. Taylar is a graduate student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brodericklab.com\/people_current.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broderick lab<\/a> at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iain Speece (undergraduate)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6902 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iain.Speece.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iain is a computational biology major studying the functional genomics of satellite DNAs in <em>D. melanogaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wei,X., Eickbush,D.G., Speece,I., A.M. Larracuente. 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/62375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heterochromatin-dependent transcription of satellite DNAs in the <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> female germline<\/a>. eLife 2021;10:e62375. doi: <a class=\"doi__link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.62375\">10.7554\/eLife.62375<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Xuewen Geng (undergraduate; Ecology and <\/strong><strong>Evolutionary Biology)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8582 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Xuewen-scaled.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xuewen is studying centromeric retroelements in Drosophilaspecies using phylogenetic approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lorraine Zaki (undergraduate, Molecular Genetics)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9572 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Image-from-iOS-e1635272501395.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lorraine is a Molecular Genetics major who worked on detecting satellite DNA homologs across species and is now starting to work on <em>Segregation Distorter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Complete list of former lab members:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Graduate students: <\/strong>Danielle Khost (Harvard Bioinformatics), Ching-Ho Chang (Damon Runyun fellow, Malik lab, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center), Matthew Lindsay (University of Toronto)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postdocs:<\/strong> John Sproul (Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University); Beatriz Navarro-Dom\u00ednguez (Grupo de Gen\u00e9tica Evolutiva, Universidad de Granada), Lucas Hemmer (Computational Biologist, Invaio Sciences), Xiaolu Wei (University of North Texas), C\u00e9cile Courret (EGCE &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undergraduates<\/strong>: Christian Silva (grad student <a href=\"http:\/\/blancolab.ucdavis.edu\/\">UC Davis<\/a>), Thanatcha (Kwan) Khunkhet, Linhe (Alex) Xu (grad student at Vanderbilt ), Danielle Pascua, Arif Kodza (MD student at SUNY Downstate), Taylar Mouton (grad student at Johns Hopkins); Isaac Wong (bioinformatician, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkowski.mgh.harvard.edu\/about\/people\/\">Harvard MGH<\/a>), Vera Yu (Computational Biology, Cornell University), Iain Speece (FMI), Gilbert Giri (UNC graduate student), Tuan Pham (grad student Brown University), Sherif Negm (Human Genetics PhD student, University of Chicago), Miraz Sadi (PhD Biochemistry and Biophysics; University of Rochester)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotating graduate students<\/strong>: Steven Messer, John Bettinger, Omid Saleh Ziabari, Nilima Walunjkar, Yingying Liang, Lauren Gregory, Songeun Lee, Lindsey Perrin, Faye Romero, Ruoqiao Wang, Cheyenne Thomas, Riti Kamath, Anushka Jain, James Shaul, Eric Moeller, Yuan Liang, Aishwarya Balakrishnan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former postdocs C\u00e9cile Courret, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral associate; EGCE &#8211; Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay) e-mail: cecile.courret@rochester.edu C\u00e9cile earned her PhD in Evolution at the University Paris Saclay (France) in Catherine Montchamp-Moreau\u2019s lab. During her PhD she was interested in the evolution and genetic basis of the genetic conflict induced by sex-linked meiotic drive in Drosophila simulans. 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