News

Oct 11, 2022

Hauptman et al., 2022: Characterization of enhancer fragments in Drosophila robo2

Our paper based on Gina's undergraduate honors thesis project identifying enhancer regions within the robo2 gene is now available online in its final peer-reviewed form at Fly!

Aug 03, 2022

Preprint: Characterization of enhancer fragments in Drosophila robo2

Our lab's newest preprint is live today on bioRxiv! You can read it at this link.

Jun 29, 2022

PhD Candidate Piyasi Ghosh

CEMB PhD student Piyasi Ghosh succesfully passed her PhD candidacy exam today. Congratulations Piyasi!

Jun 27, 2022

Preprint: A cis-regulatory sequence of the wing selector gene, vestigial, drives the evolution of scaling relationships in Drosophila species

Our lab's newest collaborative preprint is live today on bioRxiv! You can read it at this link.

Jun 13, 2022

The vestigial Quadrant Enhancer is dispensable for pattern formation and development of the Drosophila wing

Our lab's first micropublication is online at microPublication Biology! This paper presents some of Keity Farfán Pira's work during her visit to the Evans lab in 2021, as part of a collaborative project between our lab and the lab of Dr. Marcos Nahmad at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) in Mexico City.

Apr 21, 2022

Congratulations Jessie!

Jessie Agcaoili successfully defended his Honors Thesis today, titled "The effects of deletion of the cytoplasmic domain of Robo3 on Drosophila." Well done, Jessie!