April 03, 2018
Our own unofficial labbie Lauren Gregory has decided to pursue her PhD at the University of Rochester with the most excellent Jenn Brisson, starting in Fall 2018. Lauren’s interests revolve around the proximate basis of adaptive evolution in plastic responses. I’m certain she and Jenn…
March 27, 2018
Our own Sophia Lauer has decided to pursue her PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Washington, starting in Fall 2018. She struggled to decide among many excellent programs, but in the end, Seattle won out. The current plan is to work on the molecular basis of variation among individuals as it…
February 01, 2018
It’s out!! A. W. Shingleton & W. A. Frankino 2016. The (ongoing) problem of relative growth. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 25: 9-19. DOI: /10.1016/j.cois.2017.10.001 Differential growth, the phenomenon where parts of the body grow at different rates, is necessary to generate the…
January 01, 2018
After finishing her PhD in the Linden/Henckaerts labs at Kings College London in Virology last year, unstoppable lab alum Sarah Smith has turned to viral oncology and will do a postdoc in Charles Bangham’s group at Imperical College London working on understanding the progression of HTLV-1…
October 01, 2017
The whole teaching team behind the annual Galapagos Research-based Learning Abroad trip was recognized by the UH chapter of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars with an award for the best New and Innovative Program Abroad. Woot !
April 20, 2017
Sincere thanks to all the students over the years that have written letters supporting my repeated nomination for the UH Teaching Excellence Award. We finally wore down the selection committee and this year I won. I’m pictured here with President Khator at the awards ceremony last night. I…
March 27, 2017
After much consideration, Audrey has decided to undertake graduate studies this fall in Ecology & Evolution at Indiana University. Go Big Red !
March 24, 2017
Lab alumnus Mark White celebrated his birthday today by successfully defending his dissertation, ‘Regulation of nutrient update in prostate cancer’. I was lost by the third slide, but he did a great job. Woot!
October 01, 2016
Selected labbies went to the Shingleton lab for a few days to learn how to dissect fly bits. They were great hosts, and fun was had by all.
July 13, 2016
It’s out!! Dreyer, A.P., Saleh Ziabari, O., Swanson, E.M., Chawla, A., Frankino, W.A., Shingleton, A.W. 2016. Cryptic individual scaling relationships and the evolution of morphological scaling. Evolution. 70: 1703-1706. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12984 Morphological scaling relationships between organ…