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.

National Science Foundation: Asian butterfly populations show different mimicry patterns, thanks to genetic ‘switch’

National Science Foundation: Asian butterfly populations show different mimicry patterns, thanks to genetic ‘switch’

Our paper “The evolution and genetics of sexually dimorphic ‘dual’ mimicry in the butterfly Elymnias hypermnestra” has been published in Proceedings B

Our paper “The evolution and genetics of sexually dimorphic ‘dual’ mimicry in the butterfly Elymnias hypermnestra has been published in Proceedings B. Well done Dee, Nick and all!