Emily V.W. Setton
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
​Email: setton at wisc dot edu
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Aphonopelma hentzi. Comanche National Grasslands, La Junta, CO. June 2018.
Curriculum vitae (February 2023)

How do arachnids form different body parts during development? Two ontogenetic processes that I focus on are antero-posterior segmentation and appendage development in spiders. I use a combination of bioinformatic tools, sequencing approaches, and gene silencing experiments to investigate how conserved transcription factors establish regional identity, with the mainstay of my work in the model system Parasteatoda tepidariorum. 

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Research snapshots:
10-legged spider
Antibody staining of embryonic crickets.
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Sifting leaf litter in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Embryos on the cover of JoA!!
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I use differential gene expression analyses to categorize system-wide effects of RNA interference (gene silencing) against segmentation genes.
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