Harsha Sen, third-year graduate student in the Mallarino lab, won the Best Student Talk award in the Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (DEDB) at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Sen's talk titled, "Molecular evolution and development of the mammalian gliding membrane," presented his current research that uses both computational and molecular approaches.

This year's meeting was held in Seattle, WA from January 2-6.

SICB describes its mission as fostering,  "research, education, public awareness and understanding of living organisms from molecules and cells to ecology and evolution. SICB encourages interdisciplinary cooperative research that integrates across scales, and new models and methodologies to enhance research and education."