Lab News and Blog
Wenjun’s paper published in Nature Protocols
Wenjun's paper, "CellTagging: combinatorial indexing to simultaneously map lineage and identity at single-cell resolution". Has been published in Nature Protocols. Learn more about our CellTagging resources, here: http://morrislab.wustl.edu/celltagging-resources/
New preprints: CellOracle and Capybara!
We have two new preprints, one from Kenji and Christy on CellOracle, Dissecting cell identity via network inference and in silico gene perturbation. The second is from Wenjun and Cady on Cabybara: A computational tool to measure cell identity and fate transitions....
Sam awarded a 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship
Sam has received a Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology. Read more here: https://sloan.org/fellowships/2020-Fellows
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