8/4/22: Sakshi has successfully defended her dissertation! Sakshi dealt with a change of institutions and a global pandemic right in the middle of her Ph.D. and nevertheless put together a great dissertation focused on sexual selection and immunity. Congratulations, Dr. Sharda!
7/28/22: We received funding from the National Science Foundation that will support our experimental speciation project for the next several years!
6/26/22: Samantha and Claudia both did a great job presenting parts of their dissertation work at the Evolution 2022 meeting in Cleveland.
5/20/22: Congratulations to Graham, who received the Outstanding Biological Sciences Senior Award for the Department of Biological Sciences at USC!
4/22/22: Graham presented the early results from our reinforcement experimental evolution project at Discover USC, earning 2nd place in the poster competition.
3/27/22: At the SEPEEG meeting in Georgia, Samantha gave a talk about her work on the seminal fluid protein Acp29AB and Graham presented a poster on our experimental reinforcement project.
2/12/22: Sakshi’s paper testing for a role for sexual selection in fly adaptation to Pseudomonas entomophila infection is out here.
11/22/21: Claire successfully defended her Honors college thesis!
9/6/21: We have a new paper out in Evolution today (here) where we used a modeling approach to ask how the softness of selection (the scale at which competition takes place) influences the evolution of sexual dimorphism in different mating systems.
6/21/21: Welcome to Sophia, our new laboratory technician, and Izzy, a senior at the Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics who is working on a project in the lab this summer.
5/1/21: The lab was awarded an ASPIRE grant to fund work on our experimental speciation project.
4/13/21: Congratulations to Claire, who received funding from the UofSC Honors College to continue her work in the lab on the condition-dependence of the female postmating responses.
3/2/21: Our paper on the genomics of adaptation to larval malnutrition is out in MBE (here).
1/29/21: A collaboration led by Maria Litovchenko at the EPFL on genetic variation in circadian gene expression patterns across tissues is out in Science Advances (here).
1/4/21: Two new undergraduates, Faith and Isabela, joined the lab this spring semester. Welcome!
12/15/20: Congratulations to Graham, who received a Magellan Scholar award that will fund his research project through the spring semester!
8/20/20: Four new folks in the lab! PhD student Samantha and undergraduates Graham, Claire, and Haven all started this week.
1/17/20: We have a new paper (here) from work led by Michael Frochaux that identifies genetic variation associated with changes in gene expression and susceptibility after flies are orally infected by Pseudomonas entomophila.
12/15/19: Our collaboration on mitochondrial genotypes and phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), led by Roel Bevers and Maria Litovchenko at the EPFL, is out (here).
9/5/19: We are hosting the European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC 2019) at EPFL in Lausanne as well as a workshop on interactions between the sexes–it has been great to have such a large contingent of evolutionary biologists here at the fly meeting.
6/12/19: Our first paper from a project with Lauren Cator at Imperial College London–experimental evolution in Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito– is out in Proc B (here).
4/8/19: Our new paper on how sexual conflict shapes male manipulation of females is out (here) in PNAS! A collaboration with the groups of Tadeusz Kawecki at the University of Lausanne and Claudia Fricke at the University of Muenster.
2/9/18: Congratulations to Michael Beyeler, who successfully defended his Masters thesis on the genetic basis of sexual size dimorphism in the DGRP.
12/13/18: Sakshi passed her qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate, hooray!
12/15/17: Sakshi Sharda joins the group as a PhD student.
1/19/17: Our paper on the evolution of cognitive aging with Martyna Zwoinska and Alexei Maklakov from Uppsala University is out in Evolution (here).
11/7/16: We have a new paper out on how the manipulation of intralocus sexual conflict has changed development and maturation processes in a sex-specific way in our evolving fly populations (here).
9/1/16: The lab has moved to the EPFL in Lausanne and our Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project on sexually antagonistic selection has officially begun!
9/16/16: Masters students Rohan Ravel and Michael Jardine have successfully defended their Masters theses.
6/8/16: We are hosting folks from throughout the UK and Europe at Imperial College for the Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE) summer symposium “War and peace: the dynamics of evolutionary conflict”.