James R. Walters' Lab

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Masters student Desiree earns two fellowships to s...

Congrats to Desiree Harpel for winning two fellowships for studying evolutionary genomics this summer.  Desiree will spend 2 weeks in Seattle at the s...

Lab renovations under way!

Hurray!  They have finally started actively renovating our lab space and my office.  Soon the Walters lab will have our official home in Haworth Hall!...

Lab Renovations Complete!

Lab and office renovtations are now complete!  We have a wet-lab and computational space.  Our monarch cage is up and running, thanks to our friends a...

Desiree submits NSF graduate fellowship.

Congrats and good luck to student Desiree Harpel, who just submitted her fellowship application to the NSF graduate research fellowship program.  Desi...

Post-doc position open!

EDIT: Position is filled.

We are looking for a post-doctoral scholar to join the lab.  Please see the official job listing:

https://employment.ku.edu/...

Andrew Mongue: Incoming Grad Student

We are very happy to welcome Andrew Mongue into the Walters lab. Andrew will be starting his PhD here at KU-EEB in the fall, working on the mysteries...

NSF pre-proposal invitation

Success! NSF DEB has invited a full proposal for submission based on our pre-proposal to research patterns of sex chromosome dosage compensation in Le...

Walters lab joins Insect Transgenic Network

Jamie has been invited to help steer the development of the "knowledgebase" website for the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network focused on insect...

Chris Hamm joins lab as post-doctoral research

We are delighted have Chris Hamm joining the Walters lab as a post-doctoral researcher.  Chris will combine his love of butterflies and interest in ge...

Harpel presents Monarch sperm proteome at Evolutio...

Grad student Desiree Harpel presents poster on initial results of mass-spec proteomics at Evolution conference in Raleigh, NC.

Andrew Mongue officially joins lab

We welcome Andrew Mongue as the first PhD student to the Walters lab.  Andrew will be pursuing aspects of sperm competition in Monarch butterflies and...

Jamie attends Lepidopteran Genetics Workshop in Cr...

Jamie will present two talks at the International Workshop on Lepidopteran Molecular Biology and Genetics, held in Kolymbari, Crete.  Both work on dos...

Walters lab attends Ecological Genomics Symposium

Jamie, Desiree, and Andrew attended the Ecological Genomics Symposium organized by our neighbors at Kansas State University. 

Desiree presented a post...

Walters and Hamm present work at "Biology of Butte...

Both Jamie Walters and Chris Hamm will present talks at the "Biology of Butterfly" conference being held in Turku, Finland.  Chris presents updated an...

The lab is funded!

We have just received word that our grant to the NSF (DEB division) is funded.  We will have three years of support to research the evolution of sex-c...

Jamie gives invited seminar at UC Riverside

Thanks to an invitation from Sean Prager, an old friend from time at the University of Maryland, Jamie got to visit and present research to the entomo...

Grad student Andrew is going to Japan, funded by N...

Walters lab graduate student Andrew Mongue was awarded a NSF summer research fellowship through the East-Asian and Pacific Summer Institute Program (E...

Jamie visits Kansas State University

Jamie visited and gave a seminar to the Ecology and Evolution program at our neighbor institute, Kansas State University.  It was an excellent opportu...

Derrick Harms and Jeff Cole join Walters lab as su...

We welcome two students to the lab through the NSF funded Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) program at KU-EEB. Derrick Harms will be working on...

Undergrad Channing awarded 3 different summer rese...

Congrats to Channing, a KU undergrad researcher in the Walters lab, for being awarded three different summer fellowships: the KU Gould Entomology awar...

KU news service promotes Walters' NSF award

KU's news service has published an article & interview with Jamie about his research funded the NSF.

Manuscript published on the Heliconius saliva prot...

Congrats to Master's student Desiree Harpel on her first publication, a first-author analysis of the saliva proteome from Heliconius melpomene.

Jamie presents at Arthropod Genomics

Several members of the Walters lab attended the Arthropod Genomics Symposium at Kansas State University, where Jamie gave an invited talk on lepidopte...

Jamie & Chris go international

Jamie and post-doc Chris had a jet-setting July.  Both attended the SMBE meeting in Vienna, Austria, followed shortly by the Heliconius group meeting...

REU student Jeff Cole wins awards

Walters lab REU student Jeff Cole won awards for both his talk and poster presentations at the REU final symposium.  Jeff's work examined the molecula...

Czech Fulbright scholars arriving in October

 Czech researchers Petr Nguyen and Anna Volenikova will be joining the Walters lab starting in October, funded by Fulbright scholarships.  Petr and An...

Desiree Harpel, MS!

Grad student Desiree has completed her Master's. We wish the best of luck on PhD studying venom proteomics at Florida State University. We will certai...

Entomology and Genomics in Minneapolis

This week Jamie is attending the Entomological Society of America meeting in Minneapolis. In particular, he was invited to present on lepidopteran dos...

Neo-sex chromsome in monarch butterfly

We are delighted to announce our discovery of a neo-Z chromosome in Monarch butterfly. Details are available in our preprint on bioRxiv. We are excite...

PhD student Andrew Mongue awarded DDIG

Congrats to Andrew, who was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for his proposed research on the evolution and function of dimorphi...

Two undergrad fellowships!

Two undergraduate lab members have been awarded research fellowship from the K-INBRE program! Megan Hansen received the STAR fellowship, while Jodyn K...

doseR software project funded by NSF

We are delighted to have received three years of support from NSF-ABI for our efforts to deploy mixed linear models in an R package specific for analy...

Jamie goes to China

Jamie is a featured speaker at the International Conference on Insect Genomics, in Hangzhou, China. This opportunity results from our emerging collabo...

Jordyn wins poster competition

Undergrad researcher and K-INBRE Bioinformatics fellow Jordyn Koehn won an award for "best poster" at the annual K-INBRE research symposium.

Summer Fellowships!

Undergrad researchers Thomas Johnson and Jordyn Koehn have been awarded Gould fellowships from KU entomology to pursue research this summer in the Wal...

Andrew receives mentoring award

Congratulations to PhD student Andrew Mongue, who received the  2018 KU Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. This is well-deserved recognition for...