August 2023 Congratulations to Tiezheng Fan on passing his qualifying exam!
June 2023 Giovanni Hanna is now Dr. Giovanni Hanna!
June 2023 Kae's first paper on de novo genes now out in G3
May 2023, Julie's latest paper now out in GENETICS.
September 2020: Julie's paper on the evolution of novel gene expression patterns in D. melanogaster is out in GENETICS!
July 2019: Kae Lombardo joins the lab!
March 2018: Alex joins the lab!
Didem is awarded a prestigious University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats, Didem!
November 2017: Our paper on parallel adaptation in Drosophila is out in PLOS Genetics.
September 2017: Alex Majane, first yr grad student in Integrative Genetics and Genomics, will rotate in the lab this quarter.
April 2017:
We (Dave, Didem) attended the Drosophila meeting in San Diego. Great meeting, as always.
February 2017:
Li and Nico have departed for Dave's hometown to start jobs at Rockefeller University. We sure will miss them.
June 2016:
Didem will attend the Evolution meeting (Austin, TX) and will give a talk at the Development 2 session on Saturday (06/18/2016) at 10:30 am.
June 2016:
Welcome to Rebekah Frampton, a visiting scholar from University of Otago (New Zealand), who will stay in the Begun lab for a month.
March 2016:
Nico's paper about latitudinal cline associated with UVB-mediated DNA damage response is out in PLOS Genetics!
February 2016:
Alisa's paper about clinal variation in D. simulans is out in Genetics!
January 2016:
Check out our new paper with Dan and Matt on parallel evolution of copy-number variation in MBE.