Congratulations to Paula Fernandez-Begne for receiving an R. C. Lewontin Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution!

Congratulations to Paula Fernandez-Begne for receiving an R. C. Lewontin Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution!

We’ve posted two new bioRxiv preprints related to our research on Heliconius vision and mate preference. Please check them out!

We’ve posted two new bioRxiv preprints related to our research on Heliconius vision and mate preference. Please check them out!

Welcome to Rachel Moran

The lab is happy to welcome Rachel Moran, a Chicago Fellow studying genomics and speciation of darter fish.

Congratulations to Erick Bayala on his successful Ph.D. thesisdefense!

Congratulations to Erick Bayala on his successful Ph.D. thesis defense! His dissertation is entitled “How to paint a butterfly? Developmental insights into Heliconius embryology, color patterning, and pigmentation.”

Erick’s manuscript “From the formation of embryonic appendages to the color of wings: Conserved and novel roles of aristaless1 in butterfly development” is on bioRxiv and under review.

Erick’s manuscript “From the formation of embryonic appendages to the color of wings: Conserved and novel roles of aristaless1 in butterfly development” is on bioRxiv and under review.

Marcus and colleagues published an editorial “Evo-devo of color pattern formation” associated with this Frontiers Research Topic.

Marcus and colleagues published an editorial “Evo-devo of color pattern formation” associated with this Frontiers Research Topic.

Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was a distinct species driven to extinction published in Biology Letters.

Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was a distinct species driven to extinction published in Biology Letters.