Jan. 2025 - Congrats to Martin on his publication in PNAS using yeast to model an evolutionary arms race in mice!
Sept. 2024 - Welcome to UROPs Quinn Dorsey and Francesca di Domenico!
Aug. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Callie Swanepoel for successfully defending her PhD thesis! We wish you all the best as a post-doc in the Elde Lab in Utah, continuing your studies of arms races!
July 2024 - Congrats to Ann Marie on being awarded an individual NRSA Fellowship from NIH!
May 2024 - Farewell to Eden, who will join the UM Transgenic Core as microinjectionist!
May 2024 - Farewell to Ivan, who will join the Albert Einstein College of Medicine MSTP program this summer!
May 2024 - Congrats to Lucy for graduating with honors from EEB!
Apr. 2024 - Congrats to Callie on publishing her review in SCDB!
Apr. 2024 - Congrats to Callie for winning the James Van Neel Award!
Nov. 2023 - Research Station highlighting our labs work at UM Natural History Museum.
Sept. 2023 - Welcome to UROP Mary Bello.
Fall 2021- Fall 2023 - Website was transcriptionally silent. 😀 Jake was on sabbatical at IMBA, Vienna, Austria, in the wonderful labs of Julius Brennecke and Alejandro Burga.
Sept. 2021 - Welcome to UROP Margaret Cylkowski.
Aug. 2021 - Congrats to Ann Marie on passing her qualifying exam!
July 2021 - Welcome to Ivan Mier, our new lab manager, and farewell to Evan, our previous lab manager, who will continue studying selfish genes as a PhD student in Montana.
June 2021 - Welcome to G+G student Ann Marie Lawson, who joins the lab for her doctoral studies.
April 2021 - Congrats to Eden Dulka and Callie Swanepoel on being awarded Individual NRSA Fellowships from NIH!
Jan. 2021 - Congrats to Alyssa on the publication of her review in CMLS!
Sept. 2020 - Welcome UROPs Lucy Zhang and Leila Brandt.
June 2020 - Congrats to Callie on the birth of her daughter, Eleanor!
May 2020 - Congrats to Emma on graduating from UM with Honors!
May 2020 - Congrats to Yakshi on successfully completing her Master's!
Apr. 2020 - Congrats to Alyssa for successfully defending her PhD thesis, during quarantine.
Apr. 2020 - Congrats to Callie for being selected for the Joan B. Kessler award.
Apr. 2020 - Martin's paper on Laidx, a large amplified intrinsically disordered predicted protein-coding gene on the X, is out in G3.
Mar. 2020 - Callie's paper on how X-palindromes undergo gene conversion across mouse lineages is out in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Dec. 2019 - Jacob Mueller receives an NSF Career Award, which provides funding for the lab, MI DNA Day, a high school teacher program and a research station at the UM Museum of Natural History.
Nov. 2019 - Welcome Eden Dulka, who starts her post-doctoral research in the lab.
Oct. 2019 - Alyssa's paper on how a recently evolved X-linked gene family is essential for male fertility and can distort the sex ratio is out in Current Biology.
Sept. 2019 - Congrats Callie and Alyssa for winning talk and poster awards at the HG retreat.
Sept. 2019 - Welcome Iulia Dobrin, who joins the lab as a UROP.