Lab News and Blog
Sam named Allen Distinguished Investigator
Sam has been named a 2019 Allen Distinguished Investigator. Each award confers $1.5 million in research support over three years, for a total of $7.5 million in funding for studies of human diseases using stem cells and the development of new technologies to examine...
Sarah’s paper published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Sarah's paper, in collaboration with the Warner lab (Division of Pediatric Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine), "Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Regional Reprogramming during Adaptation to Massive Small Bowel Resection in Mice" has been published...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Seed Network grant awarded
We have recently been awarded a third grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in collaboration with Luca Pinello (MGH) and Jason Buenrostro (Broad Institute) on, "Single Cell Resolution of Cell Lineages and States Based on Chromatin Accessibility Combined with...
Sam is elected as Junior Faculty Representative for the Society for Developmental Biology
Sam is now on the Board of Directors for the Society for Developmental Biology: https://www.sdbonline.org/board_of_directors
Christy Hoffmann joins the lab as a graduate student
Christy has joined the lab as a graduate student (Human and Statistical Genetics). Christy received her degree from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2016. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant at Washington University in St. Louis, where she...
Chuner Guo successfully defends!
Chuner is the first student from the Morris lab to defend her thesis, “Single-cell resolution mechanistic analyses of direct lineage reprogramming”. She is in the MSTP program and now returns to the clinic. Congratulations, Chuner!
Sam’s Spotlight, “The evolving concept of cell identity in the single cell era” published in Development
Sam's Spotlight piece, "The evolving concept of cell identity in the single-cell era" has been published in the Development single-cell biology special issue. https://dev.biologists.org/content/develop/146/12/dev169748.full.pdf
Chuner’s paper published in Genome Biology!
Chuner's paper, "CellTag Indexing: genetic barcode-based sample multiplexing for single-cell genomics" has been published in Genome Biology: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1699-y. Congratulations to Chuner and all authors involved...
Protocols.io podcast on CellTagging
We recently recorded a podcast with protocols.io about our CellTagging protocol and general philosophy on reagent and data sharing. You can listen here: https://www.protocols.io/podcasts/episode-03-dr-samantha-morris-washington-university
Sam’s commentary on Slide-seq published in Nature
Sam recently wrote about a new method to generate cellular RNA profiles in intact tissues (Slide-seq) that retains a high-level of spatial information: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01405-1?utm_source=twt_nv&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsandviews