Naoto Yamaguchi joins the lab as a graduate student

Naoto received his bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2021. During his undergrad, he developed an imputation method for scATAC-seq data. He also worked on a project developing a Gene Regulatory Network...

Douglas Abrams joins the lab as a graduate student

Douglas received his degree in history and computational/systems biology from Colby College in 2019. Upon graduating, he worked as a bioinformatician in Dr. Sohrab Shah’s lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering to develop pipelines to analyze scDNA-seq data. Currently,...

Emily Holloway joins the lab as a Postdoc

Emily received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Kalamazoo College. She then went on to earn a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Spence. In the Spence lab, Emily characterized the cellular...

R21 Grant Awarded

We have been awarded an NIH R21 grant from the National Institute Of Arthritis And Musculoskeletal And Skin Diseases (NIAMS) for our project, “Tracing the origin of regenerative and scarring fibroblasts during wound healing with single-cell technologies”....

Sarah Waye successfully defends!

Sarah Waye has successfully defended her thesis, “Regional Reprogramming and the Small Intestine: Analysis and Modeling of Adaptive Regeneration of the Epithelium”. Congratulations, Sarah!