Current Lab Personnel

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Tim Evans

Principal Investigator
evanst@uark.edu
Tim received his BS in Biology in 2001 from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD from Indiana University in 2006 studying wing vein patterning in Drosophila with Joe Duffy. He began his studies on axon guidance in the Drosophila embryonic nervous system as a postdoc in Greg Bashaw's lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Tim joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2019.
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Ayawovi Selom Ametepe

Graduate Student
Selom joined the lab as a PhD student in the CEMB program in 2021. Her research project investigates the functional importance of structural domains in the Drosophila Robo3 axon guidance receptor.
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Piyasi Ghosh

Graduate Student
Piyasi joined the lab as a PhD student in the CEMB program in 2021. Her research project focuses on the evolutionary conservation of attractive Netrin-Frazzled signaling in the insect embryonic CNS.
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Ashton Magdich

Graduate Student
Ashton joined the lab as a PhD student in the BIOL program in 2023. Her research project focuses on the roles of the Drosophila Robo2 axon guidance receptor in embryonic nervous system development.
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Savannah Beaupre

Undergraduate Student
Savannah joined the lab as an undergraduate student in 2024. Her project examines the evolutionary conservation of Slit-dependent midline repulsion in flies and mammals.