PhD Candidate Selom Ametepe

CEMB PhD student Selom Ametepe succesfully passed her PhD candidacy exam today. Congratulations Selom!

Kidd and Evans, 2023: Analysis of Axon Guidance in the Drosophila Embryo; Collection, Fixation, and Antibody Staining of Drosophila Embryos; Ventral Nerve Cord Dissection and Microscopy of Drosophila Embryos

A series of papers (a topic introduction plus two protocol papers) from Tim and collaborator Tom Kidd on the analysis of embryonic axon guidance in Drosophila are now available online at Cold Spring Harbor Protocols! These articles are part of the Drosophila Neurobiology collection, edited by Bing Zhang, Ellie Heckscher, Alex C. Keene, and Scott Waddell.

Preprint: Slit-independent guidance of longitudinal axons by Drosophila Robo3

Our lab's newest preprint is live today on bioRxiv! You can read it at this link.

University of Arkansas News article on Selom's fellowship

Selom appears in today's University of Arkansas News, in an article highlighting her recent Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowship award.

Farfán-Pira et al., 2023: A cis-regulatory sequence of the wing selector gene, vestigial, drives the evolution of scaling relationships in Drosophila species

Selom is awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship

The Schlumberger Foundation has selected Selom Ametepe as one of its 2023-2024 Faculty for the Future fellowship awardees. Congratulations Selom!

Fly meeting 2023

Tim, 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!

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.