Prashant P. Sharma
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    • Phylogenomics >
      • Chelicerate phylogenomics
      • Scorpion phylogenomics
      • Sea spider phylogenomics
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      • Harvestman Hox genes
      • Scorpion Hox genes
      • Evolution of the chelicera
      • RNAi in Phalangium opilio
      • Deutocerebral appendages
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          • Cyphophthalmi
          • Zalmoxidae
          • Basal Opiliones phylogeny
        • Laniatores
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          • Basal bivalve phylogeny
          • Protobranch phylogeny
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        • Sandokanidae
        • Zalmoxoidea
        • Simulations and theory
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    • Australia 2014
    • Philippines 2014
    • Laos 2014
    • Australia 2015
    • Colorado 2018
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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 (updated Nov 2020)

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. To enhance the comparative aspect of spider developmental biology, I am generating developmental genetic resources for Aphonopelma hentzi, the large-bodied Texas brown tarantula. Other projects I work on incorporate investigation of appendage evolution in insects and sea spiders.
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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I use differential gene expression analyses to categorize system-wide effects of RNA interference (gene silencing) against segmentation genes.
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