Our snowflake yeast was featured on the cover of 20 March 2025 issue of the Nature journal, as we published our work on the Genome duplication in the MuLTEE. The issue also contains a comprehensive review of long-term evolution studies and their insights into evolution biology by James Stroud and Will Ratcliff.
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Rozenn has successfully defended her PhD thesis
Join us as we celebrate Rozenn’s outstanding accomplishment! It is with immense pride and excitement that we celebrate the remarkable achievement of one of our own today. Our lab is buzzing with applause and congratulations as we extend our warmest wishes to Rozenn on successfully defending their thesis! Over the past few years, she has Read More…
Autumn Peterson is awarded the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
We would like to congratulate Autumn Peterson and Dr. William Ratcliff on being awarded the prestigious HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. Autumn is a Ph.D. student in our lab who is exploring the evolution of phototrophy and the role of life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity. As a part of the fellowship, she Read More…
Undergraduate research symposium
We are happy to announce that Harley Yopp and Saranya Gourisetti won second place at the undergraduate research symposium. They worked under the mentorship of Peter L Conlin and Kai Tong to study “The maintenance and loss of polyploidy in experimental evolution”