New Grant

We have been awarded a one year $30,000 American Cancer Society – Institutional Research Grant from the Siteman Cancer Center beginning January 1, 2016 to dissect the etiology and progression of hepatoblastoma.

Solving Organ Shortage Summit

Scientists from multiple disciplines met in Austin to attend the State-of-the-Science Kidney Summit. Participants formed The Whole Kidney Research Community and identified Phase One Strategic Research Goals to tackle the challenges associated with regenerating or...

New Lab Member

We are very pleased to welcome DBBS rotation student, Nathan Rockwell to the lab. Nathan joins us to study the developing embryo using high-throughput single cell RNA sequencing, Dropseq.

The Morris Lab is open!

July 1 marks the official opening of the Morris Lab! For the time being we will be setting up our operation at 4444 Forest Park Avenue. Within the next few weeks we’ll be moving to our lab space in the Center of Regenerative Medicine in the new Scott McKinley...

Young Embryologist Network Meeting

On June 18, Sam spoke about her work on cell fate engineering at the Young Embryologist Network Meeting at Harvard Medical School: http://thenode.biologists.com/young-embryologist-network-usa-mouse-livers-and-stem-cell-fate-conversion/news/. Siyeon Rhee, a graduate...

Nature Jobs Blog

Sam was recently interviewed by Nature Jobs for their #ScientistOnTheMove series. Here, Sam talks about the move from a postdoc position at Boston Children’s/Harvard Medical School to become an Assistant Professor at...

Lab Twitter account

The Morris Lab is now on Twitter! You can Tweet @morris_lab and keep up with the latest news/musings/stream of consciousness from the lab. https://twitter.com/morris_lab

The Stem Cell Podcast

Sam was interviewed for The Stem Cell Podcast, from The Next-Gen Stem Cell Conference in Saratoga NY. Some great chat as usual from Chris and Yosif. Particularly insightful was Yosif’s statement with regard to the many fate engineering protocols focusing on...

Next-Gen Stem Cell Conference

Sam recently gave a talk on her work to engineer cell fate at The Next-Gen Stem Cell Conference in Saratoga NY, organized by Chris Fasano (Neural Stem Cell Institute) and Mark Tomishima (SKI Stem Cell Research Facility). The meeting is geared towards networking young...