Blog | Arachnomics

Mammal diversification trigged scorpions' toxins

The diversification of toxins active agains mammal tissues is a recent evolutionary event in scorpion history. Check the story here:...

The first Daddy-long-legs Genome and the evolution of legs in arachnids

Multiplexed fluorescent in situ hybridization showing staggered expression of the Hox genes Deformed (green), and Sex combs reduced...

Our study was featured in Science

Our collaboration on the first phylogenomic analysis of Pycnogonids (Sea spiders), co-first authored by students and postdocs from the...

Soon-to-be Assistant Professor

I'm incredibly excited to share that I'll be joining the Department of Biology at Western Connecticut State University as an Assistant...

Scorpion development

Earlier this year, our work on scorpion gene expression was published on the journal Development, Genes and Evolution and this month was...