Lab News and Blog
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
Sam receives a 2019 Innovator Award from the St. Louis Science Academy
Sam was honored with a 2019 Innovation Award, which recognizes scientists or engineers, age 40 or under, who have demonstrated exceptional potential for future accomplishments in science, engineering or technology. https://www.academyofsciencestl.org/awards/
Xue (Snow) Yang joins the lab as a graduate student
Xue (Snow) Yang has joined the lab as a graduate student (Developmental, Regenerative & Stem Cell Biology Program). Snow received her degree in biological science from East China Normal University in 2018. During her years as an undergraduate, she worked in the lab of...