Amanda Larracuente

alarracu@UR.Rochester.edu

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Introducing Dr. Xiaolu Wei

September 7, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Xiaolu Wei for successfully defending her thesis! Dr. Wei gave an awesome talk on meiotic drive and satellite DNA regulation in Drosophila melanogaster. We are so proud…

A couple years of progress and fun: 2021-2022 whirlwind

September 5, 2022

What a whirlwind the past couple of years has been! Check out what we’ve been up to in 2021 and 2022: The lab had a lot of fun at GLAM…

Ching-Ho Chang receives the Sandler Award!

Ching-Ho Chang is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Larry Sandler Award (https://genestogenomes.org/ching-ho-chang-to-give-larry-sandler-memorial-lecture-at-dros21/). This award honors Dr. Larry Sandler for his many important contributions to Drosophila genetics, including his foundational…

GIDS first biomedical data science hackathon

August 18, 2020

Congratulations to team supergene–Sherif Negm (team captain), Xiaolu Wei, John Sproul and Lucas Hemmer— for coming in 2nd place in the open division of the GIDS biomedical data science hackathon!…

Xiaolu is a Messersmith fellow

Xiaolu Wei is a recipient of an Agnes M. Messersmith and George Messersmith Dissertation Fellowship – a highly competitive fellowship that recognizes promising University of Rochester PhD candidates. This fellowship…

Congratulations Dr. Chang!

Ching-Ho successfully defended his dissertation on “Meiotic drive and rapid genome evolution in Drosophila”. He will start his postdoctoral work at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center this April. We’ll miss…

Ching-Ho is a DeLill Nasser awardee

February 28, 2020

Ching-Ho received a DeLill Nasser award for professional development in genetics to travel to TAGC this spring. This award is in memory of DeLill Nasser, a long time advocate for…

Introducing Dr. Khost

Congratulations to the first PhD graduate from the Larracuente lab: Danielle Khost! She’s off to a fantastic bioinformatics position in the Harvard Bioinformatics group. We’ll miss her dearly.

Paper on Drosophila melanogaster centromeres is out!

Check out our new paper on the organization of Drosophila melanogaster centromeres. For this paper, our lab collaborated with Barbara Mellone’s lab (University of Connecticut) and Ting Wu’s lab (Harvard…

Taylar graduates with honors in research

Taylar successfully defended her senior thesis on suppressors of Segregation Distorter in Drosophila melanogaster and is graduating with honors in research this weekend! Next up for Taylar is the Cell,…

Xiaolu passed her quals

October 27, 2018

Congratulations to Xiaolu for passing her quals this week!

Ching-Ho wins a scholarship

Ching-Ho was awarded a Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from the Taiwan government. He’ll use these funds to study the evolution of a new multi-copy Y-linked gene family specific to…