Announcements & News

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   […]
Our lab’s work on using CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis to explore the function of Hox genes in crustaceans was featured in a Scientific American article about the revolution […]
Nipam’s video entitled “Squid: Coming to Life” received Runner Up for the Scientific Merit Award at the Imagine Science Films festival! You can check out details […]