May 29, 2020
Congratulations to our incredible group of 2020 PhD graduates!
Top Row:
- Holly Elmore (David Haig Lab), "Ecological population genomics in the emerging amanita system"
- Brent Hawkins (James Hanken and Matther P. Harris Labs), "Latent developmental potential to form limb-like structures in fish fins revealed by mutations in the Vav2/N-WASP pathway"
- Pavitra Muralidhar (David Haig and Jonathan Losos Labs), "On the evolution of sex and its consequences"
- Nathan Edelman (James Mallet Lab), "Evolutionary effects of hybridization"
- Caitlin Baker (Gonzalo Giribet Lab), "Phylogenetics and biogeography of soil invertebrates across Gondwana"
Middle Row:
- Ava Mainieri (David Haig Lab), "The sins of our kin: From genomic imprinting to ancient signaling systems"
- Jacob Gable (Hopi Hoekstra Lab), "The behavioral consequences and developmental genetic causes of whisker evolution in deer mice"
Bottom Row:
- Éadaoin Harney (John Wakeley and David Reich Labs), "Exploring the human past during the ancient DNA revolution"
- Nathan Ranc (Paul Moorcroft Lab), "The interplay between memory and resource preferences drives animal space-use patterns"
- Sebastian Akle Serrano (Michael Desai and Shamil Sunyaev Labs), "Strategies for gene discovery and mechanistic insight using pleiotropy and induced mutagenesis"
- Mara Laslo (James Hanken Lab), "Evolutionary conservation of endocrine-mediated development in the direct-developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui"
- Jacob Cohen (Peter Girguis Lab), "The ecophysiology of iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria: Microbe-mineral interactions, transcriptomic responses, and biomineralization"
- Blake Dickson (Stephanie Pierce Lab), "Evolution of the tetrapod forelimb and functional morphology of the humerus across water-land transitions"