| May 09, 2023 |
Preprint: Slit-independent guidance of longitudinal axons by Drosophila Robo3Our lab's newest preprint is live today on bioRxiv! You can read it at this link. |
| Apr 20, 2023 |
University of Arkansas News article on Selom's fellowshipSelom appears in today's University of Arkansas News, in an article highlighting her recent Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowship award. |
| Apr 20, 2023 |
Farfán-Pira et al., 2023: A cis-regulatory sequence of the wing selector gene, vestigial, drives the evolution of scaling relationships in Drosophila speciesOur lab's collaborative paper examining the evolution of vestigial enhancer sequences is now online at the Journal of Experimental Biology! This paper includes some of Keity Farfán Pira's work carried out during her visit to the Evans lab in 2021, as part of a collaborative project between our lab and the lab of Dr. Marcos Nahmad at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) in Mexico City. |
| Mar 31, 2023 |
Selom is awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future FellowshipThe Schlumberger Foundation has selected Selom Ametepe as one of its 2023-2024 Faculty for the Future fellowship awardees. Congratulations Selom! |
| Mar 01, 2023 |
Fly meeting 2023Tim, Selom, and Piyasi traveled to Chicago, IL for the 64th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Deep dish pizza, jollof rice, masala dosa, and five days of excellent and inspiring science with the international fly community! |
| Jan 09, 2023 |
Welcome Ashton!BIOL PhD student Ashton Magdich has joined the Evans lab as our newest graduate student. Ashton's PhD project will focus on the roles of the Robo2 axon guidance receptor in Drosophila embryonic nervous system development. |