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Congratulations Abby!

5/5/2020

 
Congratulations to Abigail Gutierrez who was awarded the Biology Department's Constance von Wahl Prize at the Barnard Honors Assembly over Zoom tonight! This prize is awarded to a graduating senior with high qualities of character and commitment to the department and her fellow students. Yay Abby!
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Congratulations Lisa!

4/26/2020

 
Congratulations to Pischedda Lab alum Suriya Lisa (BC '19), who will be starting med school at Georgetown University in the fall! Lisa worked in the lab from 2018-2019 and completed her Neuroscience and Behavior Senior Thesis in the lab looking at male mate choice. We're so excited for her!
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Physically separated, scientifically connected

4/24/2020

 
COVID-19 might have moved us all off campus and moved our flies into my garage, but the Pischedda Lab is still meeting for semi-regular lab meetings! This week's agenda: watching Abby and Ana-Maria practice a run-through of their poster presentations for the upcoming Biology Symposium, and getting an updated lab photo (even if it needed to be via Zoom!)
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Pischedda Lab: Working from home

4/2/2020

 
With the lab effectively shut down, all of our students working remotely, and me working from home (~30 miles north of Barnard), I've had to use some interesting tactics to keep our fly populations alive. The fruit flies are now my new roommates, and I have set up a makeshift fly lab in my garage! Hopefully these efforts will be enough to keep these populations alive while we ride out what's to come. See below for how I'm trying to make this work!
Garage Lab Setup
Ergonomics optional
Mini Drosophila Incubator by Tritech
Mini-fridge full of food from a canceled experiment

New paper on the genetics of pupation behavior!

2/25/2020

 
My new paper with Michael Shahandeh and Tom Turner at UCSB has been published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. In this paper, we identify two genes associated with differences in pupation behavior between Drosophila melanogaster and ​D. simulans. 
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New semester, new lab members!

2/4/2020

 
This semester the Pischedda Lab added 3 new members to our group! Welcome to the team, Holly, Mariel and Olivia! 
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Also, for anyone wondering how we get such great photos of our lab members, here is our unofficial lab photographer, Ana-Maria, making the magic happen!
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New paper on the genetics of male mate choice!

1/7/2020

 
My new paper with Michael Shahandeh and Tom Turner at UCSB has been published in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. In this paper, we map a male preference for female pheromones that differs between Drosophila species and find that a 1.35 Mb region on the X chromosome has a major effect on this preference.
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Happy Halloween from the Barnard Bio Department!

10/31/2019

 
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The official end of SRI

8/2/2019

 
The lab went out for lunch to celebrating the end of SRI: 10 weeks that have been filled with successes, failures, so much science, and so many flies!
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SRI Poster Session

7/31/2019

 
Abby, Ana-Maria and Chelsea presented their summer research today at Barnard's Summer Research Institute (SRI) Poster Session!
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Chelsea
Ana-Maria
SRI Group!

Ana-Maria is awarded the Con Edison Summer Internship!

5/27/2019

 
Congratulations to Ana-Maria Rodriguez Cuadrado for being awarded the Con Edison Summer Internship to conduct her SRI research!

ConGRADulations to Lisa, Nushrat and Taylor!

5/20/2019

 
Congrats to Lisa, Nushrat and Taylor on their graduation as part of the Barnard Class of 2019!
Lisa earned her BA in Neuroscience & Biology, Nushrat earned her BA in Biology, and Taylor earned her BA in Biology. They are the first graduating members of the Pischedda Lab!
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Lisa, Ali & Nushrat
Ali, Lisa & Nushrat
Lisa & Ali

Lisa gives her Neuroscience & Behavior Senior Thesis presentation!

5/8/2019

 
Congratulations to Lisa who presented her senior thesis work today at the Neuroscience & Behavior Symposium!
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New preprint available!

12/12/2018

 
A new preprint of my work with Michael Shahandeh and Tom Turner at UCSB is now available on bioRxiv! In this paper we identify two genes associated with behavioral differences between Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. 

Featured on Barnard's Student Success Blog

11/1/2018

 
I was featured in the First-Gen Faculty Spotlight on Barnard's Student Success Blog. Fun fact: I was the first in my family to go to college! 
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Barnard College, Columbia University