Welcome to lots of new people in the group. Wendy Valencia, Charley Yen, Joana Meier, Imogen Gavins and Anna Farre-Orteu
Congratulations to Laura
Well done to Laura Hebberecht for submitting her Masters thesis this week! Laura is going on to a PhD with Steve Montgomery
PhD studentship “Domestication of the black soldier fly” at Cambridge University
Supervisors: Chris Jiggins, Richard Durbin Industrial partner: Miha Pipan (Entomics) A PhD studentship is available to start from October 2018 on the genome and domestication of Hermetia illucens, commonly known as the black soldier fly (BSF), funded by the UK National Productivity Investment Fundthrough the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. By feeding […]
New Postdocs
We welcome three new postdocs to the group for 2018, Jenny James who is looking at selective sweeps at wing patterning genes; Luca Livraghi who is using CRISPR to study wing patterning genes; and Erika Castro who will be looking at cyanogenesis genes in Heliconius melpomene and cydno.