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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…

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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…

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Ching-Ho Chang receives the Sandler Award!

March 30, 2021

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…

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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!…

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Xiaolu is a Messersmith fellow

June 10, 2020

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…

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Congratulations Dr. Chang!

March 3, 2020

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…

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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…

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Introducing Dr. Khost

June 20, 2019

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.

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Paper on Drosophila melanogaster centromeres is out!

May 14, 2019

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…

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Taylar graduates with honors in research

May 14, 2019

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,…

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Xiaolu passed her quals

October 27, 2018

Congratulations to Xiaolu for passing her quals this week!

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Ching-Ho wins a scholarship

June 1, 2018

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…

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Firefly chromosomes

October 5, 2017

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…

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Congratulations graduates!

May 23, 2017

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…

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Congratulations Ching-Ho

May 16, 2017

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

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Postdoc in evolutionary genomics:

July 12, 2016

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Christian graduated

May 19, 2016

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…

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Firefly genome project is a SMRT grant finalist!

April 11, 2016

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…

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Review on the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive

February 29, 2016

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…

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“Mysteries of the Genome”

December 1, 2015

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…

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Danielle wins the retreat poster contest

October 9, 2015

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

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Danielle is a Ph.D. candidate!

September 15, 2015

Congratulations to Danielle for passing her qualifying exam!

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Meiotic drive in the Alps

July 6, 2015

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…

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Ching-Ho joins the lab

May 14, 2015

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

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The Larracuente lab is open!

February 6, 2015

The Larracuente lab is officially open and we are settling into our new space. Check out the People tab to see who has joined the lab.