Ben graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006, where he studied Biology and English. Although he was initially drawn to bird biology in Alaska, he soon realized that his true research interests lay in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. After graduating, Ben moved to Missoula, Montana, with nine of his friends, where he worked in Doug Emlen's lab studying the development and evolutionary diversification of horned beetles. Ben joined the Extavour lab in the Fall of 2008, and hopes to help figure out how the earliest stages of egg patterning vary between arthropod species possessing different ovary types.

Ben is a graduate student in the OEB program, and holds a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Publications

Gene discovery in a hemimetabolous insect: a de novo transcriptome for the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Zeng, V. Ewen-Campen, B., Horch, H.W., Roth, S., Mito, T., and Extavour, C.G. (submitted)

2012. oskar Predates the Evolution of Germ Plasm in Insects. Ewen-Campen, B., Srouji, J.R., Schwager, E.E. and Extavour, C.G. Current Biology 22(23): 2278-2283. Read more in the Harvard Gazette and a Dispatch in Current Biology.

2011. De novo assembly and characterization of a maternal and developmental transcriptome for the emerging model crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis. Zeng, V., Villanueva, K.E., Ewen-Campen, B., Alwes, F., Browne, W.E. and Extavour, C.G. BCM Genomics 12(1): 581.

2011. Delta/Notch signalling is not required for segment generation in the basally branching insect Gryllus bimaculatus. Kainz, F., Ewen-Campen, B., Akam, M. and Extavour, C.G.138(22): 5015-5026.

2011. The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Ewen-Campen B, Shaner N, Panfilio KA, Suzuki Y, Roth, S and Extavour CG. BMC Genomics. 12(1): 61. *Highly Accessed*

2010. Habitat type is related to nest mass and fledging success of Arctic Warblers. Hagelin JC, Perry ML, Ewen-Campen B, Sikes DS and Sharbaugh S. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122(4):699-705.

2010. The molecular machinery of germ line specification. Ewen-Campen B, Schwager EE, and Extavour CG. Molecular Reproduction and Development 77(1): 3-18.

2007. On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns. Emlen DJ, Corley Lavine L, and Ewen-Campen B. PNAS 104: suppl 1: 8661-8668.

2007. The aerodynamics of flying carpets. Gilbert SF, Chandra A, Cohen N, Ewen-Campen B, LaSalle K, Lewis K, Mizutani M, and Wu C. In: “The Panda’s Black Box.” Ed. Comfort NC. John Hopkins University Press.