| Oct 01, 2021 |
Welcome Keity!Graduate student Keity Johanna Farfán Pira has joined the Evans lab (temporarily) as a visiting J-1 Exchange Scholar. Keity is a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Dr. Marcos Nahmad at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) in Mexico City, where her research focuses on the role of the vestigial gene in regulating wing size in Drosophila species. Keity will spend the last few months of 2021 here in Fayetteville learning CRISPR-based techniques for gene modification in Drosophila. Her visit is funded through a Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship. |
| Sep 30, 2021 |
Welcome Piyasi!CEMB PhD student Piyasi Ghosh has joined the Evans lab as our newest graduate student. Piyasi's PhD project will investigate the evolutionary conservation of attractive Netrin/Frazzled signaling in flies and beetles. |
| Aug 19, 2021 |
Howard et al, 2021: The Slit-binding Ig1 domain is required for multiple axon guidance activities of Drosophila Robo2Our paper based on LaFreda's PhD thesis project on the functional importance of Robo2's Ig1 domain is now a peer-reviewed publication! You can read the final published paper online at Genesis. |
| Aug 16, 2021 |
Welcome Selom!CEMB PhD student Ayawovi Selom Ametepe has joined the Evans lab as our newest graduate student. Selom's PhD project will focus on a structure/function analysis of ectodomain elements in the Drosophila Robo3 axon guidance receptor. |
| Jun 30, 2021 |
Congratulations Will!Will Chesshir successfully defended his Honors Thesis today, titled "Axon Guidance and Pathfinding: Modern Advancements in Understanding and Cross-Species Ramifications." Well done, Will! |
| May 07, 2021 |
Preprint: The Slit-binding Ig1 domain is required for multiple axon guidance activities of Drosophila Robo2Our lab's newest preprint is live today on bioRxiv! You can read it at this link. |
| Apr 02, 2021 |
Daiber et al in the March 2021 issue of GeneticsOur paper based on Trent's undergraduate research project comparing Drosophila Robo1 and C. elegans SAX-3 has been published in the March 2021 issue of Genetics! |
| Feb 08, 2021 |
Muna Abdal-Rhida, Ph.D.Muna successfully defended her CEMB Ph.D. thesis today, titled "Molecular and genetic studies of robo2 transcriptional regulation in the central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster." Congratulations Dr. Abdal-Rhida! |