Amanda Larracuente

Firefly season is over. It only lasts a couple of months here in Rochester. We rear fireflies in the lab over the summer to study the chromosomal distributions of their…

Two fantastic undergrads in the lab graduated and are moving on to bigger and better things. Kwan graduated with BS degrees in Computational Biology and Data Science.  Alex graduated with…

  Ching-Ho passed his qualifying exam today and lots of people came to help us celebrate.  Congrats to the new PhD candidate!  

This week marks a big milestone for the Larracuente Lab. Our first undergraduate, Christian Silva, has left the nest. Christian pioneered firefly work in the lab and will be sorely…

We are fortunate to be part of a diverse group of biologists collaborating to sequence the genome of Photinus pyralis- the Big Dipper Firefly. Our firefly genome project was chosen as…

This summer, over 20 biologists studying meiotic drive in a variety of taxa (including flies, plants, mice, birds and fungi) gathered in the Swiss Alps for a workshop to discuss…

Amanda recently presented at Rochester’s Science Café at the Pittsford Barnes and Nobles on the “Mysteries of the genome”.  Click here to learn more about the series. Mysteries of the…

Congratulations to Danielle for  winning the 2015 Department of Biology retreat poster contest for the best EEB poster!

Congratulations to Danielle for passing her qualifying exam!

Amanda recently attended a very productive workshop on the ecology of meiotic drive in Arolla, Switzerland. Other Rochester workshop participants were Drs. Daven Presgraves and Rob Unckless (alumnus of the…

Ching-Ho Chang joined the Larracuente lab as a first-year graduate student!  Click here to read more about Ching-Ho’s work.