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June 2013   Welcome to Dr. Iris Vargas Jentzsch, a new postdoc in the group who will be doing bioinformatic analyses part-time.
      
May 2013   Kristen is interviewed on scientific discoveries and the nature of evo-devo morphogenesis research for the webcast series Significant Details, hosted on its own dedicated site, at Spektrum.de, and on YouTube.
      
March 2013   Kristen attends and presents at two meetings: the Joint German Cell and Developmental Biology Societies' Meeting in Heidelberg (poster presentation), and a symposium on "New horizons in molecular zoology" organized by the iBeetle Research Group in Göttingen (invited talk).
      
January 2013   Congratulations to Jan on a successful evaluation at his first Ph.D. thesis committee meeting from the Graduate School for Biological Sciences.
      
December 2012   Kristen is nominated for inclusion in the AcademiaNet database of "Leading Women Scientists" [profile CV].
      
    Welcome to Yvonne Kölsch, a master's student who will be joining us for a research module for the next 2 months as part of the "Modern Techniques of Developmental Biology" course.
      
October 2012   Oncopeltus genome sequencing update: Template material prepped by Stefan and Kristen has now passed quality control at Baylor's Human Genome Sequencing Center, and Oncopeltus has officially joined the queue for sequencing.
      
September 2012   Thorsten and Jan attend and give poster presentations at the 13th Young Scientist Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ): "Cell biology shapes the embryo", in Jena.
      
August 2012  
The Oncopeltus genome has been selected for sequencing! With five international co-authors (Ariel Chipman, Cassandra Extavour, Abdou Khila, Aleksandar Popadic, and Yui Suzuki), Kristen has successfully drafted a Hemipteran genome sequencing white paper, calling for the sequencing of the Oncopeltus fasciatus and Gerris buenoi genomes. Please do get in touch to support this project-- by e-mail (kristen.panfilio [at] alum.swarthmore.edu)
or on the Arthropod Genomes i5k wiki site.
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    Welcome to Jan Seibert, a new Ph.D. student in the group.
      
July 2012   Biennial attendance at the Euro Evo-Devo and International Tribolium Satellite Meetings in Lisbon: two contributed talks by Kristen and a poster presentation by Thorsten on aspects of comparative extraembryonic development.
      
May 2012   Welcome to Matthias Roth, a bachelor's student intern who will be joining us for the next month.
      
    Welcome to Dr. Thorsten Horn, a new postdoc in the group.
      
April 2012   Kristen Panfilio co-authors a perspective piece in Science with Siegfried Roth to accompany the new live imaging study of segmentation in Tribolium.
      
    
The lab is awarded an equipment grant through the University of Cologne's
2nd Women Scientists Support Program.
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January 2012  New year, new lab: the Panfilio lab opens for research on
Extraembryonic Development (EED)!
      
  
  

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