Announcements & News

Angela Kaczmarczyk earned her PhD in December 2014! The Patel lab is fortunate to have Dr. Kaczmarczyk’s continued expertise in the lab while she hunts for a […]
Second-year Patel lab PhD student Rachel Thayer advanced to candidacy on Monday (May 4th). She passed with flying colors – structural color, that is. Congratulations, Rachel! Now […]
Ryan Null’s research on structural color in butterflies was featured on KQED’s Deep Look. Check out the full article on the KQED Science blog.  
Monsters are everywhere. They lurk in the shadows and stalk our imagination. They terrorize and fascinate us. But what, exactly, are they? Scholars differ on whether the […]
The images that we take are for scientific research, but they are also beautiful. And mounted on the walls of an Oakland art gallery for a curated show, […]
Ryan’s spectacular time lapse of butterfly wing development and Nipam’s movie of frog embryo development made it into “It’s About Time” the 7th annual Imagine Science […]
Nipam spoke about Hox genes and our research at the David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis to an audience of mostly MD’s gathered to better […]
Another fun, successful, and busy embryology course at Woods Hole! Arthropod team 2014: Ryan Null, Erin Jarvis, Linda Setiawan (Hariharan lab) and Kath Smith (Bilder lab) (TA’s), and, of course, […]
Nipam and Cedith just adopted two adorable kittens. Welcome to the two newest (and cutest) “lab” members!