News

Dec 21, 2024

Preprint: Evolutionary conservation of midline axon guidance activity between Drosophila and Tribolium Frazzled

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

May 31, 2024

Agcaoili and Evans, 2024: Drosophila Robo3 guides longitudinal axons partially independently of its cytodomain

Our paper based on Jessie Agcaoili's undergraduate honors thesis project investigating the functional importance of Robo3's cytoplasmic domain has been published at microPublication Biology!

Mar 10, 2024

TAGC 2024

Selom and Piyasi traveled to Washington, D.C. for the 65th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, held with The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC 2024), and presented posters on their doctoral research.

Feb 09, 2024

Piyasi is awarded Global Scientists Award by Genetics Society of America

Genetics Society of America has awarded Piyasi a travel grant to participate at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC 2024) to be held in Washington, D.C. from March 6th-10th. Congratulations Piyasi.

Jan 16, 2024

Welcome Savannah!

Undergraduate researcher Savannah Beaupre is the newest member of the Evans lab. Savannah will be using CRISPR/Cas9-based gene modification approaches to examine the evolutionary conservation of Slit-dependent midline repulsion in flies and mammals.