Lab News and Blog
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...
Kunal Jindal joins the lab as a graduate student
Kunal Jindal has joined the lab as a graduate student (Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program). Kunal received his degree in Biology and Electronics engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India in 2017. During his undergrad, he spent a...
Sadie VanHorn joins the lab as a graduate student
Sadie VanHorn has joined the lab as a graduate student (Developmental, Regenerative & Stem Cell Biology Program). Sadie received her degree in Molecular Biology from Ohio Northern University in 2018. In Dr. Jamie Sider’s laboratory at Ohio Northern, Sadie studied the...
Morris lab through to the STAT Madness final four!
We made it to the final four of the third annual STAT Madness, a bracket-style tournament to find the best innovations in science and medicine! Read more here: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/morris-lab-makes-the-final-four-of-biomedical-research/
Emily Butka joins the lab as a graduate student
Emily Butka has joined the lab as a graduate student ( Computational and Systems Biology Program). Emily received her degree in Biology and Mathematics from St. Olaf College in 2018. At St. Olaf, she worked with Professor Steve Freedberg to model sex biases in...
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...