We study the evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns.
We are particularly interested in the developmental genetic basis of variation in natural populations and how natural selection drives the evolution of pattern formation.
Lab News
- May 7, 2012. It's official! The Reed Lab is moving to Cornell University this summer!
- Apr 29, 2012. Emily's paper on buckeye butterfly wing pigment chemistry accepted to Biochemical Systematics and Ecology!
- Apr 17, 2012. Congrats to Susan for winning a Sigma Xi research grant!
- Mar 28, 2012. Emily's paper on geographic variation in wing pattern plasticity published in Ecological Entomology!
- Mar 21, 2012. Read about Susan's work on social butterflies in Science and National Geographic!
- Mar 20, 2012. Susan's paper on Heliconius roosting published in Proceedings of the Royal Society!
- Feb 24, 2012. Heliconius genome paper accepted to Nature!
- Feb 21, 2012. Susan's paper on Heliconius roosting accepted to Proceedings of the Royal Society!
- Jan 9, 2012. Emily's paper on Junonia polyphenism accepted to Ecological Entomology!
- Nov 14, 2011. Heather's paper on optix phylogenies is published online in PNAS!
- Nov 14, 2011. Susan wins first place in the Entomological Society of America's annual student talk competition!
- Oct 17, 2011. Heather Hine's paper on optix allele phylogenies accepted to PNAS!
- Sept 2, 2011. Seth Bybee's paper on wing pigment signal evolution accepted to American Naturalist!
- Aug 25, 2011. Read Sean Carroll's Science Perspective on our optix paper!
- July 21, 2011. Our new paper on the optix gene is published online in Science!
- June 28, 2011. Congratulations to graduate student James Lewis for winning an NIH Systems Biology Training Grant!
- April 5, 2011. Congratulations to graduate student Susan Finkbeiner for winning an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship!
- February 3, 2011. We won a three year NSF grant
to study Heliconius color pattern genes!
