Announcements & News

CLICK THE LINK : Article Featured on the Front Page of New York Times!   From butterflies to chickens to lobsters, mixed male-female bodies offer clues […]
THE PHYSICS OF BEAUTY: STRUCTURAL COLORATION IN BUTTERFLIES Butterflies are well-known for the beautiful colors and patterns that decorate their wings. They function to attract mates, […]
Michaela Sanchez will be starting at Yale University this coming fall. She will be pursuing a Masters of Science in Nursing with a concentration in acute […]
Nipam recently presented three video talks for iBiology, an online science communication platform that aims to bring the stories of cutting-edge research in the life sciences to […]
This past week, the Patel lab joined forces with the infamous Matthew Ronshaugen, Tom Pettini, Rachel Smith-Bolton, Sally Horne-Badovinac, and Lee Niswander for the arthropod embryology module at […]
Earlier this week Aaron hosted an Explorer Classroom with National Geographic to talk about some of his work using portable laboratory equipment in the field and […]
If you haven’t heard the news, Dr. Nipam Patel has been appointed as the new director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago!  […]
Last week the Essig Museum hosted a special event for the final brunch meeting of the semester, in which undergraduates from labs at Cal presented on […]
During his time as a postdoc in the Patel lab at UC Berkeley, Dr. Arnaud Martin (now faculty at George Washington University), with the help of Berkeley undergrads […]
Heather and Nipam posted a preprint on bioRxiv entitled “Insect wings and body wall evolved from ancient leg segments” which you can check out here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/09/244541   […]