Lab News and Blog
Wenjun and Sam’s Open Peer Review at Cell Systems
Wenjun and Sam recently published our Peer Review of "Visualizing and interpreting Single-Cell Gene Expression Datasets with Similarity Weighted Nonnegative Embedding" (Wu et al., 2018), at Cell Systems. We are excited to contribute to open peer review and you can...
Guillermo’s Spotlight published in Developmental Cell
We recently published a Spotlight, 'Tracing the Origins of Axolotl Limb Regeneration.' in Developmental Cell. This Spotlight series focuses on 'showcasing female scientist views and voices'. We chose to highlight the incredible recent Science paper from...
Sam joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Development
Sam has recently joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Development. You can read more about the New Year plans for the journal here. Excited to be 'on...
Paper published in Nature
Our first research paper from the lab has been published in Nature: Biddy BA, Kong W, Kamimoto K, Guo G, Waye SE, Sun T, Morris SA. Single-cell mapping of lineage and identity in direct reprogramming. Nature. Dec 13, 2018.
Sam joins the Editorial Board of Cell Systems
Sam has recently joined the Editorial Board of Cell Systems, a Cell Press journal focusing on research that provides, supports, or applies systems-level understanding in the life sciences and related...
Paper published in Cell Stem Cell
Our collaborative work with Ben Humphreys, "Comparative Analysis and Refinement of Human PSC-Derived Kidney Organoid Differentiation with Single-Cell Transcriptomics" has been published in Cell Stem...
Chuner’s preprint published on BioRxiv
Chuner's preprint, "CellTag Indexing: a genetic barcode-based multiplexing tool for single-cell technologies" was published on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/31/335547
Guillermo Rivera-Gonzalez joins the lab as postdoc
Guillermo is originally from Mexico and earned his undergraduate degree from the Mexican National Autonomous University. He received his PhD from the University of York, UK and underwent initial training as a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. In the Morris...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Human Cell Atlas grant awarded
We have been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Human Cell Atlas grant for our project, "scClassifier, a bioinformatic tool to assess and evaluate identity at single cell resolution".
Catie Newsom-Stewart joins the lab as technician
Catie Newsom-Stewart received her degree from Lafayette College in 2017. As an undergraduate, she spent a year and a half alongside Dr. Eric Ho compiling data required for the creation of a free-access database, namely gb4gv, to aid genomic studies of geminiviridae, a...