Prashant P. Sharma
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      • Chelicerate phylogenomics
      • Scorpion phylogenomics
      • Sea spider phylogenomics
    • Developmental genetics
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      • Systematics >
        • Arthropod systematics >
          • Cyphophthalmi
          • Zalmoxidae
          • Basal Opiliones phylogeny
        • Laniatores
        • Bivalve systematics >
          • Basal bivalve phylogeny
          • Protobranch phylogeny
      • Biogeography >
        • Sandokanidae
        • Zalmoxoidea
        • Simulations and theory
      • Evo-devo >
        • Harvestman Hox genes
        • Scorpion Hox genes
        • Evolution of the chelicera
        • RNAi in Phalangium opilio
        • Deutocerebral appendages
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News and media
Podcasts

Lab Out Loud (2022): "Reorganizing the Tree of Life"

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Evo-devo

New York Times (2021): "How a Daddy Long Legs Harvestman Grows Such Strange Legs"

The Atlantic (2021): "
You’ve Never Seen Legs Like These​"

Nature (2021): "How the daddy-long-legs gets long legs"

Science (2021): "How scientists turned daddy longlegs into ‘daddy shortlegs'"

National Public Radio (2021): "Researchers Studying Daddy Longlegs' Genes Created A 'Daddy Shortlegs'"

LiveScience (2021): "Mutant 'daddy shortlegs' created in a lab"

UW News (2018): "Spiders and scorpions have co-opted leg genes to build their heads"

Breitbart News Network (2018): "Spiders, scorpions use leg genes to grow their heads"




Biodiversity discovery

New York Times (2022): "Act of 'Heresy' Adds Horseshoe Crabs to Arachnid Family Tree"

Science (2020): "Creepy sea spiders have evolved to be tough"

National Geographic (2019): "Bizarre horseshoe crabs are actually spider relatives"

UW News (2019): "Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions"

EurekAlert! (2018): "Venom shape untangles scorpion family tree"

National Geographic (2014): "Ancient daddy longlegs had extra set of eyes"

IFLScience (2014): "Four Eyed Harvestman Fossil Helps Shed Light On Arachnid Evolution"

Nature (2012): "Arachnids crossed the Pacific" 



Personnel

Badger Herald (2023): "UW awards Distinguished Teaching award to twelve faculty"

UW News (2023): "2023 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced" 

UW-Madison L&S News (2021): "How does a spider weave its web?"

Wisconsin Engineer Magazine (2018): "Not your average lab"

Harvard Gazette (2012): "Taking the long way home"

Harvard Gazette (2006): "Growing up with the animals"


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