• Erica Nadolski: DEDB Best Poster!

    Evolutionary novelties, segmental boundaries, and unexpected Hox gene expression in the insect head

    Erica Nadolski is a PhD candidate working in the Moczek lab at Indiana University. She fell in love with insect diversity as an undergraduate working with novel secondary sexual traits in fruit flies, and now works on the genomic mechanisms underlying the origin and diversification of sexually dimorphic traits in horned beetles. She plans to pursue an academic career leveraging diverse insect models, functional genetics, and genomics in a comparative eco-evo-devo framework.
  • Isabella Strohmeier: DAB Best Poster!

    Maternal defense strategies: investigating female aggression in dyeing poison frogs

    Isabella is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Dr. Eva Fischer and postdoctoral fellow Sarah Westrick. She uses dyeing poison frogs (Dendrobates tinctorius) to understand how maternal aggression is modulated by offspring and mate involvement, as well as how testosterone drives female aggression
  • Maria Salazar Nicholls: DAB Best Talk!

    Neural control of hatching enzyme release enables rapid escape-hatching in red-eyed treefrogs

    I am an Ecuadorian PhD student in the Warkentin Lab at Boston University. My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that underlie adaptive behaviors in early life stages. Specifically, I focus on red-eyed treefrogs and their rapid escape-hatching behavior. I use a multi-faceted approach to elucidate the mechanisms that enable these embryos to achieve rapid escape hatching, from sensory systems to the regulation of their hatching process.
  • Harsha Sen: DEDB Best Talk!

    Molecular evolution and development of the mammalian gliding membrane

    I am a third-year PhD student in the Mallarino Lab at Princeton University. I study the evolution and development of the mammalian gliding membrane (also known as the patagium), and I am broadly interested in understanding biological systems from evolutionary, developmental, and genomic perspectives by developing and using computational and molecular tools.

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