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.