Lab News and Blog
New Graduate Student
Brent Biddy has joined the lab as a DBBS graduate student (Molecular Genetics and Genomics). Brent received his degree from East Central University. Brent’s project focuses on the application of single-cell technologies to dissect mechanisms of direct lineage...
New Publication
Sam recently wrote a Hypothesis article on the mechanisms of pioneer transcription factor-mediated reprogramming. See her article in Development: http://dev.biologists.org/content/143/15/2696.long Morris, SA. Development, 2016.
New Graduate Student
Chuner Guo has joined the lab as an MSTP graduate student (Molecular Cell Biology). Chuner received her degree in Biology and Chemistry from University of North Carolina in 2014. During her time there, she worked in the lab of Dr. Li Qian, studying direct conversion...
New Publication
Sam recently wrote about a new single-cell analytical platform, Sinova. See her Spotlight article in Trends in Biotechnology: http://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/abstract/S0167-7799(16)30053-1 Morris, SA. Tibtec,...
Cell Press CrossTalk Blog Post
The Morris lab recently featured on the Cell Press CrossTalk platform with a discussion on setting up a lab and single-cell RNA-sequencing technology. http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/taking-career-development-a-single-cell-at-a-time
New Grant
We have been awarded an 12-month, $30,000, Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers grant, "Single-cell RNA-seq mapping of an in vitro intestinal regeneration model".
New Lab Member
We are very pleased to welcome MSTP rotation student, Zachary Beller to the lab. Zach joins us to work on adapting and enhancing single-cell RNA-sequencing tech, Drop-seq. He's also going to do some pretty nifty things with stem cells. Welcome, Zach!
New Grant
We have been awarded an 18-month, $150,000 Children's Discovery Institute grant, "Reprogramming Colon to Small Bowel as a Therapy for Short Bowel Syndrome". http://www.childrensdiscovery.org/Grants/FundedResearch.aspx?CenterID=0&ResearchID=168
New Lab Member
We are very pleased to welcome DBBS rotation student, Richa Rathore to the lab. Richa joins us to develop a novel in vitro differentiation strategy.
New Lab Member
We are very pleased to welcome Staff Scientist, Tao Sun to the lab.