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
Heliconius Seminar
While under quarantine we will be presenting bi-weekly Zoom seminars featuring Heliconius researchers. Please contact Joana Meier (jm2278@cam.ac.uk) or Luca Livraghi (miles.livraghi@gmail.com) if you would like to be added to the email list for the talk announcements.
Talks start at 10AM Panama time unless noted otherwise.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2020 | Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK) | The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius |
| 25 May 2020 | Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA) | Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene |
| 8 June 2020 | Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK) | QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome |
| June 22, 2020 | Chris Kozak (STRI) | Population genomics of large mimetic radiations |
| July 6th, 2020 | Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge) | The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies |
Evolution is surprising!
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.
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!