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...

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

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...

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.