DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
SHARMA LAB
SHARMA LAB
Welcome to the Sharma Lab! Our research broadly addresses macroevolution of invertebrates through the lenses of phylogenomics, historical biogeography, and comparative development, with emphasis on arthropods.
This body of work integrates three avenues of inquiry:
(1) How is biodiversity distributed in time and space?
(2) How do geological phenomena affect the shape of biodiversity over time?
(3) What are the genetic mechanisms that underlie body plan diversification?
This body of work integrates three avenues of inquiry:
(1) How is biodiversity distributed in time and space?
(2) How do geological phenomena affect the shape of biodiversity over time?
(3) What are the genetic mechanisms that underlie body plan diversification?
Lab News & Events (updated: 24 July 2017):
31 July 2017: The i5k spider workgroup's analysis on the comparative genomics of Chelicerata is published in BMC Biology.
24 July 2017: Emily, Logan, and Erik's paper on the evolution of the gene spineless has been accepted for publication in Developmental Biology!
1 July 2017: The department has officially changed its name to Integrative Biology.
15 May 2017: Welcome to Audrey Crawford and Calvin So, our lab's new undergrads!
1 May 2017: Welcome to Jesus Ballasteros, a postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatician! Jesus joins the lab on a UW-Madison Guyer postdoctoral fellowship.
25 April 2017: Welcome to Luis Boudouin Gonzalez, a visiting PhD student from the McGregor Lab at Oxford Brookes University! Luis joins us for one month to generate comparative expression data in harvestmen and spiders, the focus of his PhD project.
1 April 2017: An early welcome to Guilherme Gainett, who will be joining the lab as a graduate student in fall 2017!
19 September 2016: Welcome to Dr. Carlos Santibañez-López, a postdoctoral researcher and scorpion expert! Carlos joins the lab through the CONACYT fellowship program.
24 August 2016: Welcome to Andrew Ontano, a new graduate student in the Zoology PhD program!
1 June 2016: Welcome to Jill Oberski and Kenji Shoemaker, who join the lab to work on arachnology in summer 2016!
19 May 2016: The oldest armored harvestman fossil is named after PI Sharma. Petrobunoides sharmai was described from a ca. 99-Myr old amber specimen. Special thanks to Paul Selden, Jason Dunlop, Gonzalo Giribet, Weiwei Zhang, and Dong Ren!
15 March 2016: Welcome to Holly Cho, a PhD student in the Cellular and Molecular Biology training program!
14 March 2016: Congratulations to Emily Setton on winning the Laudier Histology Student Travel Grant to attend the 2016 International Congress of Arachnology meeting in July 2016! Emily will present the outcomes of her Zoology 699 project on arachnid book lungs.
3 March 2016: PI Sharma is awarded an NSF CAREER grant from the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems for research on the parallel evolution of terrestrial respiratory systems in arthropods.
25 January 2016: Welcome to new undergraduate research assistants Savana Lipps and Alejandra Torres Diaz!
9 September 2015: Welcome to Emily Setton, an undergraduate at UW-Madison and the first member of the research team!
31 August 2015: Interviews begin for undergraduate research assistants. Interested in joining? Click here.
24 August 2015: Arrival at UW-Madison. Let's get to work, Plato.
31 July 2017: The i5k spider workgroup's analysis on the comparative genomics of Chelicerata is published in BMC Biology.
24 July 2017: Emily, Logan, and Erik's paper on the evolution of the gene spineless has been accepted for publication in Developmental Biology!
1 July 2017: The department has officially changed its name to Integrative Biology.
15 May 2017: Welcome to Audrey Crawford and Calvin So, our lab's new undergrads!
1 May 2017: Welcome to Jesus Ballasteros, a postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatician! Jesus joins the lab on a UW-Madison Guyer postdoctoral fellowship.
25 April 2017: Welcome to Luis Boudouin Gonzalez, a visiting PhD student from the McGregor Lab at Oxford Brookes University! Luis joins us for one month to generate comparative expression data in harvestmen and spiders, the focus of his PhD project.
1 April 2017: An early welcome to Guilherme Gainett, who will be joining the lab as a graduate student in fall 2017!
19 September 2016: Welcome to Dr. Carlos Santibañez-López, a postdoctoral researcher and scorpion expert! Carlos joins the lab through the CONACYT fellowship program.
24 August 2016: Welcome to Andrew Ontano, a new graduate student in the Zoology PhD program!
1 June 2016: Welcome to Jill Oberski and Kenji Shoemaker, who join the lab to work on arachnology in summer 2016!
19 May 2016: The oldest armored harvestman fossil is named after PI Sharma. Petrobunoides sharmai was described from a ca. 99-Myr old amber specimen. Special thanks to Paul Selden, Jason Dunlop, Gonzalo Giribet, Weiwei Zhang, and Dong Ren!
15 March 2016: Welcome to Holly Cho, a PhD student in the Cellular and Molecular Biology training program!
14 March 2016: Congratulations to Emily Setton on winning the Laudier Histology Student Travel Grant to attend the 2016 International Congress of Arachnology meeting in July 2016! Emily will present the outcomes of her Zoology 699 project on arachnid book lungs.
3 March 2016: PI Sharma is awarded an NSF CAREER grant from the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems for research on the parallel evolution of terrestrial respiratory systems in arthropods.
25 January 2016: Welcome to new undergraduate research assistants Savana Lipps and Alejandra Torres Diaz!
9 September 2015: Welcome to Emily Setton, an undergraduate at UW-Madison and the first member of the research team!
31 August 2015: Interviews begin for undergraduate research assistants. Interested in joining? Click here.
24 August 2015: Arrival at UW-Madison. Let's get to work, Plato.
