Author Archives: yfanslow

Chase Stratton, Elisabeth Hodgdon, and Kristian Brevik have all advanced to candidacy! Now for the serious work to start happening.

Sean Quigley just found out that he was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Given that Sean is only a Freshman at this, I can only imagine what he will be doing by Senior year. Way to go Sean!

A new midge species has been found attacking canola flowers in the Canadian provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan. The midge is from the genus Contarinia, the same genus as the swede midge (Contarinia nasturtii). Here is a press release: http://saskcanola.com/news/new-insect-species-canola   … Continue reading →

Clubes de Ciencias are science clubes sponsored by the Mexican government to engage undergraduate students in topical short summer workshops with researchers. With Lori Shapiro (Harvard) and Angelica Cibrian (Langebio), we taught a short course at Langebio on crop domestication … Continue reading →

WCAX (Channel 3)  visited the lab to cover the developing swede midge story. Undergrads Laurel, Robin, and Phoebe also got on tv! Here is Laurel getting filmed. Link to the story