We are excited to announce that the Matus lab is funded for two new projects! We will be working on an exciting new collaborative project between our lab and Ben Martin’s lab, studying cell cycle regulation of invasive behavior. You can read more about it on the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation website. You can…Continue Reading New funding from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation and NIH!

Welcome to first year Genetics program PhD Student, Jayson Smith and congrats to the Matus lab’s first post-doc, Dr. Antonio Herrera, who was selected as one of this year’s IRACDA NY-CAPS fellows….Continue Reading The Matus lab is growing!

Our recent paper in Developmental Cell has been getting some great press! For some news and views on it by Andy Ewald click here. Also, check out the story at Popular Science We even made it into the top 10 stories for October 27th in Wired (UK)! Here’s two podcasts about our paper: 1) Developmental…Continue Reading Our paper is making waves!

Our work is getting noticed!  …Continue Reading National Cancer Institute @ NIH – we’re in the news!

Through a large collaborative effort involving researchers studying evolutionary developmental biology across a wide range of specialties, we have published an opinion piece in a recent issue of EvoDevo. This concept paper came out of a fantastic meeting at Nescent in December of 2013, and resulted in the formation of a new Pan American Evo-Devo…Continue Reading New Evo-devo review published

  My colleagues from the Sherwood lab at Duke University and I just published a paper in Nature Communications! We examined the process of uterine-vulval attachment in 20 species of rhabditid nematodes, identifying a new mechanism for how to create a de novo gap in the basement membrane….Continue Reading New paper published

We’re almost open for business!…Continue Reading Renovations proceeding…