Congratulations Catherine !
May 15, 2024
Lab alum Catherine Pham will soon be starting medical school and the UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine. Go Catherine !
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Congratulations Alice !
May 03, 2024
After a winding journey, lab alum Alice Teper has started her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at Texas A&M. Go Alice !
Biology & Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Training (BURT) Program has been Supported by the National Science Foundation !
April 01, 2024
The National Science Foundation has supported our (Frankino and Drs. Tiffany Davis and Detra Johnson) application to support students with financial need so that they can participate in undergraduate research. The award will support students with stipends so they can invest fully in a two-semester…
Congratulations Gabby !
March 10, 2024
BURS alum and all around impressive person Gabby Kostecki gave a talk about her work and experience with mentors and mentorship programming at UH. I had the honor of introducing her; I focused on her contributions to the BURS program that I developed and run. Go Gabby !
Genetics of Sexual Size Dimorphism Paper is Out !
September 01, 2023
We used isogenic lineages of Drosophila to measure sexual size dimorphism for 196 genotypes. We demonstrate extensive genetic variation for sexual size dimorphism, primarily driven by higher levels of genetic variation for body size among females than among males. Most of the variation in sexual…
Congratulations Dr. Satterwhite !
August 01, 2023
First generation Frankino lab alum Rebecca Satterwhite earned her PhD in Joy Bergelson’s lab at the University of Chicago studying the ecological adaptation of an agriculturally important bacterial pathogen, and has moved on to a postdoc with Vaughn Cooper and Kathy Shair working in…
Congratulations Dr. Lauer !
June 01, 2023
Lab alum Sophia earned her PhD in the Scott lab on Molecular interactions and signaling mechanisms of the oncogenic fusion protein DNAJ-PKAc in fibrolamellar carcinoma, or something like that. She’s currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Lampe lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in…
Genetic variation of morphological scaling ms is out !
May 06, 2023
This paper describes genetic variation in the slopes of various morphological scaling relationships for various traits. We found, surprisingly, that this variation in the nutritionally-induced relative size plasticity of the wing, leg, and body is caused primarily results from variation in…
Congratulations Catherine !
April 13, 2023
Catherine killed it at her poster presentation at undergraduate research day about her SURF Project; the chef’s kiss capping a long year of work. Also, Frankino was in the book.
Congratulations Seun !
April 11, 2023
Seun got invited by all the pharmacy programs, and has elected to go to UT, Go Seun !