Congratulations to Carolina Concha, Richard Wallbank, and others for their publication in the Current Biology looking at the repeatability of evolution in co-mimetic wing patterns in Heliconius butterflies.
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Publications
22 Heliconius Genome Paper Published!
Congratulations to Nate Edelmen and Paul Frandsen for getting the Heliconius 22 Genome Project paper published in Science, and with the cover no less!
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The Silence of Genes
The October 2019 Issue of STRI’s magazine, Tropicos, features a story about many of the researchers working here in with Heliconius butterflies.
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Joseph Hanly’s paper “Conservation and flexibility in the gene regulatory landscape of Heliconiine butterfly wings” published!!
Joseph Hanly’s paper titled “Conservation and flexibility in the gene regulatory landscape of Heliconiine butterfly wings” has been published to EvoDevo!
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Jelard Aquino presents at NIH
In October Jelard Aquino was selected to give a talk on “Genome-wide patterns of selection in Heliconius erato” at the 2019 NIH IDeA bioinformatics conference
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Jessica Foley awarded STRI Short-term Fellowship!
Jessica was recently awarded the STRI short-term fellowship to carry out a project studying longevity and cognitive decline in Heliconius butterflies. Working under the supervision
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Congratulations Fletcher Young!
Fletcher Young will be joining the Gamboa Heliconius community in January as a short-term fellowship recipient. A Ph.D. student at Cambridge University, Fletcher is interested
Read more »Jesyka Meléndez-Rosa awarded prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship!
She will start work in Gamboa after completing her PhD at UC- Berkeley. The goal of her research is to identify chemosensory receptors genes associated
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