Lab News and Blog
Sam is announced as a 2017 Vallee Scholar
Sam has recently received a Vallee Scholar award. "The Vallee Foundation’s goal to fund originality, innovation and pioneering work recognizes the future promise of these scientists who are dedicated to understanding fundamental biological processes." "The Vallee...
R01 grant awarded
We have been awarded an NIH R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for our project, "Dissecting mechanisms of pioneer transcription factor-mediated lineage reprogramming".
R21 grant award, in collaboration with the Mitra Lab
We have been awarded an NIH R21 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for our project, "Single-cell analysis of pioneer binding and function during lineage reprogramming", in collaboration with Rob Mitra's lab at Wash U.
Kenji Kamimoto joins the lab as a postdoc
Welcome, Kenji! Kenji's project will focus on modeling direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to induced endoderm progenitors.
Chuner’s review published in Current Opinions
Chuner's review, "Engineering cell identity: establishing new gene regulatory and chromatin landscapes." has been published in Current Opinions in Genetics and Development. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28667865
Brent’s preprint published on BioRxiv
Brent's paper on a combinatorial indexing method for clonal analysis at single-cell resolution is now on BioRxiv: http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/28/127860
New Postdoc
Xuming Tang has joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Xuming earned his Ph.D. from the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. Xuming’s doctoral studies were supervised by Dr. Jian-dong Huang and Dr. Xin-yuan Guan, where he focused on the...
New Publication
Sam recently published a commentary on the technological developments enabling culture of human embryos to 14 days: http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/1/170003
Honorary Lab Member!
We are pleased to welcome Darwin Waye, PhDog, to the group as our honorary lab member!
New Graduate Student
Sarah Waye has joined the lab as a DBBS Graduate Student (Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology ). Sarah received her degree in Neurobiology from Georgetown University in 2015. During her years as an undergraduate, she was a Georgetown Howard Hughes...