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Lab news:
May 3, 2023 An article authored by graduate student Iván Méndez was published in PLoS Genetics. He dissected the role of silencers in evolving patterns of ebony expression. check it out here! March 2, 2023 Mark and collaborator Thomas Williams edited a special issue of JEZ-B on the evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks. It's a great collection! September 1, 2022 Mark has been promoted to the rank of Professor! July 12, 2022 Congratulations to Donya Shodja on a successful thesis defense! She is moving on to work in the lab of the amazing Arnaud Martin! December 27, 2021 A new article from postdoc Gavin Rice details our developmental analysis of Drosophila phallic parts. He found unique attachment points and developmental trajectories for multiple parts that were previously thought to be equivalent. Check it it out here and here (preprint) June 1, 2021 We are excited to share that Mark's MIRA grant was funded, lending support for the lab's work for the next 5 years! September 25, 2020 Congratulations to Dr. Eden McQueen on the successful defense of her PhD thesis! She has accepted a position in the Wittkopp lab at the University of Michigan! June 5, 2020 Our paper on the role of apical extracellular matrix in the evolution of a morphological novelty is now out at eLife (link) and accompanied by a beautiful insight article by Jocelyn Mcdonald and Yoshi Tomoyasu! May 22, 2020 Eden McQueen's review article on how gene regulatory networks are co-opted and subsequently modified is out (here)! We discuss the different ways that co-option might work, and how those mechanisms may hamper or support the specialization of a structure that depends on a pleiotropic network. December, 2019 Our atlas of transcription factors expressed in the developing Drosophila genitalia is now out at G3 (here). Congrats to postdocs Ben Vincent and Gavin rice (as well as all of our participating undergraduates). This article got the cover to boot! July 12, 2019 Our website for sharing expression data in the genitalia is now up! You can browse how your favorite transcription factors are expressed in the genitalia at flyterminalia.pitt.edu/ June 28, 2019 Our preprint on the cellular development of a morphological novelty is out! We describe how this novel structure of the D. melanogaster genitalia became attached to a pre-existing network of extracellular matrix. Congrats to grad student Sarah (Smith)! See preprint here. June 27, 2019 Our new paper on the evolution of body coloration is now out in Current Biology! We isolated regulatory mutations in a Hox gene, but found that its effect on phenotype was complicated by four other genes that together make its effects invisible. Congratulations to grad student/postdoc Yang Liu! June 26, 2019 Our preprint on the transcriptional landscape of the developing genitalia is out. This was the labor of love of three undergraduate authors under the leadership of postdocs Ben Vincent and Gavin Rice. See preprint here. June 11, 2019 Our preprint on the naming of Drosophila melanogaster terminal structures is out! Congratulations to postdoc Gavin Rice, who led the consortium. We hope this will facilitate the integration of developmental, taxonomic, and evolutionary studies of genitalia! January 7, 2019 How many phenotypes do regulatory mutations affect? See our dispatch in Current Biology which covers a new study from the Orgogozo lab here October 3, 2018 Our review on connecting GRNs to morphogenesis and evolutionary change is out! Congrats to grad student Sarah Smith and collaborator Lance Davidson! See the paper here July 20, 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Yang Liu on the successful defense of her PhD thesis! July 11, 2018 Congratulations to postdoc Ben Vincent on the funding of his NIH NRSA fellowship! January 3, 2018 A collaborative paper with the Williams Lab describing the evolutionary history of transcriptional regulatory connections in the yellow gene was published in Elife! Find it here. July 22, 2017 Our paper describing new capabilities of the GenePalette tool is out at Developmental Biology. See it here May 18, 2017 Our collaborative review with Miltos Tsiantis on the evolutionary origins of regulatory sequences, and their impact on morphological novelties is out. You can view it here. May 1, 2017 We have released a new version of the GenePalette software tool. It includes capabilities to download orthologous sequences from the UCSC genome browser database to facilitate phylogenetic footprinting. January, 26, 2017 Our new paper on how heterochrony may explain novel patterns of gene expression was published in Evolution & Development here. Congrats to undergrad Thomas Pham and team! October 16, 2016 Check out our review on the evolution of Drosophila pigmentation traits that just appeared in Current Opinion in Insect Science September 1, 2016 Mark was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! August 31, 2016 Good luck to Dr. Glassford in his postdoc at Columbia University August 18, 2016 A collaborative paper with the Kopp lab was published in Current Biology! May 31, 2016 Congratulations to Dr. Glassford on the successful defense of his thesis! March 31, 2016: Our very own Natalie Dall was awarded a 2016 Goldwater Fellowship! October 6, 2015: Natalie Dall was awarded the 2015-2016 Horowitz Fellowship! September 14, 2015: Bill's paper (with a little help from sundry lab members) was published on the cover of Developmental Cell! August 24, 2015: Our review on gene regulatory network evolution just appeared in Annual Reviews of Genomics and Human Genetics! August 4, 2015: Mark gave a talk at the Inaugural Pan Am Evo-Devo society meeting in Berkeley June 26, 2015: Winslow and Ali's paper on the inactivation of transcriptional silencer elements was published in PLoS Genetics! May 1 2015: The lab was awarded a new R01 in collaboration with Peter Andolfatto to study the evolution of pigmentation differences between D. yakuba and D. santomea! |
