We study evolutionary genetics using Drosophila
Our lab research is rooted in evolutionary biology and genetics, but also spans several other
research areas, including ecology, parasitology, cell biology, molecular biology, and bioinformatics.
We are particularly interested in:

• the immune response of fruitflies against their natural parasitic wasps
• the infection strategies wasps use to circumvent the Drosophila immune system
• fruitfly resistance to insecticides and other toxins

Lab weekend in the Georgia mountains 2011

 

Lab News

• Balint is featured on the Department of Biology homepage
• Neil and Balint's paper on fly use of ethanol as anti-wasp medication is accepted into Current Biology
• Erin wins an ARCS Fellowship for her work on the molecular genetics of the candidate anti-wasp protein Lectin-24a
• Thierry's paper on fly behavioral avoidance of wasp-infested oviposition sites is accepted in Biology Letters
• Erin's paper on lectin-24a expression and evolution is accepted into MBE
• Rahul is awarded an independent research grants from the Emory SIRE program
• Balint wins best poster at the Emory undergraduate research symposium
• Neil receives an NSF dissertiation improvement grant for his work on the horizontal transfer of TEs from flies to wasps
• Todd receives an NIH R01 to study the genetics and molecular biology of the fly-wasp system
• Amit and Ethan are both awarded independent research grants from the Emory SIRE program
• Our visiting undergrad from Kenyon College, Mark Luskus, wins “best poster” in Emory’s
  summer undergraduate research program
• Neil wins “best student talk” at the Parasitology Society Meeting in Fort Worth
• Erin gives her first talk at the Evolution Conference in Minneapolis
• Todd’s graduate work on transposon insertions and insecticide resistance is included in
  Evolutionary Analysis (Freeman and Herron, eds.) and other textbooks
• Neil receives a FACES tuition scholarship

 

Last updated 11.20.11