Announcements & News

Spikes in web traffic (over 12,000 hits!) occurred after Nipam’s video on frog development was picked up by the awesome website “I Fucking Love Science“. We’re over […]
Nipam’s striking display of Blue Morpho gynandromorph’s was featured on Cell Picture Show, “The Biology of Sex”, as well as Science Friday Picture of the Week. From Science Friday: This […]
Sophomore Panda Kreidler wins a Biology Fellows Program summer grant to perform research in the Patel lab this summer. Panda will be studying the role of Hox co-factors in […]
Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in more than 90 cities across the globe during which several folks give 18-21-minute fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines […]
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.  
Graduate student Rachel Thayer is attending the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Winter Course “Evolution of Complex Systems”.  She gave a short presentation describing her […]
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, […]