Lab News! - Presgraves Lab

New work from our collaboration with Al Uy‘s lab on the genomics of neo-sex chromosomes and speciation in honeyeaters!
New eLife paper on Segregation Distorter supergene in African D. melanogaster
Welcome to new PhD student, Emiliano Marti, who will be co-advised with Amanda Larracuente!
New Nature Ecology & Evolution paper on the rapid evolution of cryptic sex ratio drive gene family and its suppressors in the D. simulans clade, with nice News & Views piece from Aaron Vogan.
Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, recipient of the University of Rochester’s 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Natural Sciences!
New eLife paper on gene flow and meiotic drive during speciation is out, with lab buddy, Colin Meiklejohn.
Check out the new special issue of Molecular Ecology on “Sex Chromosomes and Speciation“, edited by Bret Payseur, Dmitry Filatov, and Daven.
Congratulations to Dr. Cara Brand, who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation! She’s off to postdoc with Mia Levine at UPenn.
New postdoc, Beatriz Navarro Dominguez, joins the Presgraves & Larracuente labs to tackle problems at the intersection of speciation and satellite DNA evolution.
March 2018 – Cara lands a talk at the 2018 Joint Conference on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier.
March 2018 – Our new paper on a gene that mediates the evolution of recombination landscapes between two Drosophila species is in press at Current Biology.
August 2016 – Farewell & good luck to Dr. Emily Landeen, who’s off to join Doris Bachtrog‘s group at UC Berkeley!
July 2016 – Our new paper on X suppression and its evolutionary consequences is out in PLoS Biology.
March 2016 – Congratulations to Dr. Emily Landeen, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Investigating the molecular genetic basis of the large X-effect in Drosophila speciation”!
May 2015 – Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received a DeLill Nasser Travel Award from the Genetics Society of America!
May 2015 – Congratulations to Cara Brand, who has received the University of Rochester’s Messersmith Graduate Fellowship Award!
May 2014 – Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers– Ben Goulet, Justin Roncaioli, and Nick Love– who received their B.S. degrees. And special congratulations to Ben Goulet, who graduates with multiple honors: he was selected to be the 2014 Biology Class Speaker, he received a degree with Distinction in Research, and he received the Grace McCormack Award.
May 2014 – Zhenguo Zhang joins the lab as a new postdoc to work on evolutionary genomics of gene expression in the Drosophila male germline.
February 2014 – Congratulations to Cara Brand who has received a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant!
December 2013 – Dr. Robert (Bort) Edwards joins the lab to work on the large X-effect and complex speciation between Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana
July 2013 – Two new postdoc positions available in evolutionary genetics/genomics.
Congratulations to Colin Meiklejohn! He will join the University of Nebraska’s School of Biological Sciences as a new faculty member in January 2014!
Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente! She will join the EEB group in the University of Rochester’s Department of Biology as a new faculty member in January 2015!
January 2013 – New postdoc position available in speciation genetics & genomics
November 2012 – Congratulations to Amanda Larracuente on her NIH-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award!
Our paper on speciation genomics of the Drosophila simulans clade appears in Genome Research
July 2012 – Vicky presents at AGA’s Recombination Meeting
February 2012 – Our friend and colleague Colin Meiklejohn moves to Indiana University
February 2012 – Dr. Victoria Cattani defended her PhD dissertation: Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in Drosophila
Dr. Amanda Larracuente joins the lab!
Soojin Yi (Georgia Tech) and Daven join the debate about complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees
Vicky receives a NSF-DDIG award
Daven receives a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
Daven receives a 2008 David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science & Engineering
Colin lands big NSF award to study the evolution of transcriptional regulation
Vicky & Shanwu present their work at the Evolution Meetings in Minneapolis
Daven is awarded the 2008 Balfour Lecture from the Genetics Society
Daven heads to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as the 2008-2009 Grass Fellow
Anjuli Cherukuri wins the University of Rochester’s Janet Howell Clark Prize and the Donald Charles Prize