Lab Meeting Schedule
Lab meetings are held every Wednesday at 4PM in the first floor seminar, or 3rd floor conference room in the Gamboa Lab. Read more
Paper on mimetic wing perception published!
A paper based on research at the Heliconius Insectaries has confirmed that the butterflies use ultraviolet cues to promote effective mating behavior while maintaining the advantages of mimicry to ward off predators. Read more
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 in Las Vegas. This work was carried out during a Smithsonian fellowship with Krzysztof Kozak. Jelard is now researching indel evolution at U Nevada Reno and looking for PhD opportunities. Best of luck!
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. Read more
Papers of interest
A place to leave suggestions for relevant papers (Heliconius, genomics, and beyond):
Anzalone et al. 2019 Prime editing instead of CRISPR https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1711-4
Kawahara et al. Lepidoptera phylogenomics 2019 https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/15/1907847116