News
January 2023
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A preprint led by David Shechner's lab in which Elliot Hershberg participated—Oligonucleotide-directed proximity-interactome mapping (O-MAP): A unified method for discovering RNA-interacting proteins, transcripts and genomic loci in situ.—goes online at bioRxiv. Congrats, Elliot!
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A paper in collaboration with Bernhard Payer's lab in which Elliot Hershberg participated in, Cohesin controls X chromosome structure remodeling and X-reactivation during mouse iPSC-reprogramming, is published in PNAS. Congrats, Elliot!
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Conor Kelly (GS) and Connor Finkbeiner (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the winter quarter. Welcome, Connor and Conor!
October 2022
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A paper led by Jay Shendure's lab in which Eva K. Nichols and Melissa Phung-Rojas participated, Optimized single-nucleus transcriptional profiling by combinatorial indexing, is published in Nature Protocols. Congrats, Melissa and Eva!
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Chandler Ault joins the lab as a MSDS Master's student. Welcome, Chandler!
September 2022
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Sahar Attar (GS) and Monika Perez (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome, Monika and Sahar!
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Thomas A. Perkins, Jr. joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome, Thomas!
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Mary Krebs joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome, Mary!
July 2022
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We have our annual lab retreat (in 2 parts) with visits to the Seattle Art Museum and the Van Gogh Immersive Experience!



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A paper led by Lily Deng—An open source 16-channel fluidics system for automating sequential fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)-based imaging—is published in HardwareX. Congrats, Lily!
June 2022
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Caleb Kono (UW Biochemistry) joins the lab as a UW GS Summer REU researcher. Welcome, Caleb!
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Chelsey Lin (UW Physiology) joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Chelsey!
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Saurabh Shukla starts his new position at Perscryptive Health as a Data Scientist. Congrats, Saurabh—and farewell!
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The lab goes out for coffee and pastries to send off Saurabh!
May 2022
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Robin Aguilar's artwork is featured on the cover of ACS Chemical Biology. Congrats, Robin!
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Melissa Phung-Rojas (Case Western Reserve University, Biology and Cognitive Science) returns to the lab as joint summer undergraduate researcher with the Shendure Lab. Welcome back, Melissa!
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A paper in collaboration with Jonathan Liu's lab in which Eva K. Nichols participated in, A hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope for versatile multi-scale imaging of cleared tissues, is published in Nature Methods. Congrats, Eva!
April 2022
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David Nwizugbo (UW Biochemistry) joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, David!
March 2022
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Ben Mallory (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the spring quarter. Welcome, Ben!
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Lily Deng starts her new position at RareCyte as a Computational Biology Scientist. Congrats, Lily—and farewell!
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A preprint led by Lily Deng—An open source 16-channel fluidics system for automating sequential fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)-based imaging—goes online at bioRxiv. Congrats, Lily!
February 2022
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Sahar Attar is accepted to and decides to enroll in the Genome Sciences PhD program. Congrats, Sahar!
January 2022
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Chris Hsu's CMAP Research and Education training fund application is selected for funding. Congrats, Chris!
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Malvika Tejura (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the winter quarter. Welcome, Malvika!
December 2021
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at the 2022 HHMI Investigator Science Meeting. Congrats, Robin!
November 2021
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Eva K. Nichols has an abstract chosen for a plenary "Blue Sky Ideas" session talk at the 4DN Annual Meeting. Congrats, Eva!
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Robin Aguilar and Eva K. Nichols have abstracts chosen for poster presentations at the 4DN Annual Meeting. Congrats, Eva and Robin!
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Valentino (Val) Browning joins the lab as a research assistant (joint with the Shendure Lab). Welcome, Val!
October 2021
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A preprint led by Jay Shendure's lab in which Eva K. Nichols and Melissa Phung-Rojas participated—An optimized protocol for single cell transcriptional profiling by combinatorial indexing—goes online at arXiv. Congrats, Eva and Melissa!
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Eva K. Nichols is awarded a WRF Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats, Eva!
September 2021
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Shruti Jain (GS) and Connor Kubo (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome, Connor and Shruti!
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Eva K. Nichols is named a poster award finalist at the 2021 Genome Sciences Retreat. Congrats, Eva!
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Yuzhen Liu crushes the General Exam and officially becomes a PhD candidate. Congrats, Yuzhen!
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A preprint in collaboration with Jonathan Liu's lab in which Eva K. Nichols participated—A hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope for multi-scale imaging of cleared tissues—goes online at bioRxiv. Congrats, Eva!
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Chris Hsu is awarded a Genome Training Grant predoctoral fellowship. Congrats, Chris!
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Conor Camplisson is awarded a Genome Training Grant predoctoral fellowship. Congrats, Conor!
August 2021
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We have our second (and all outdoor) lab retreat!


July 2021
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Saurabh Shukla joins the lab as a visiting postdoctoral scholar (joint with the De Yoreo Lab). Welcome, Saurabh!
June 2021
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A paper co-led by Elliot Hershberg and Conor Camplisson and featuring contributions from Sahar Attar, Yuzhen Liu, and Ryan Chern—PaintSHOP enables the interactive design of transcriptome- and genome-scale oligonucleotide FISH experiments—is published in Nature Methods. Congrats all!
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Conor Camplisson crushes the General Exam and officially becomes a PhD candidate. Congrats, Conor!
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Sneh Gupta (UW Molecular and Cellular Biology) joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Sneh!
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Caleb Bower (UC Davis Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) joins the lab as a UW GS Summer REU researcher. Welcome, Caleb!
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Chris Hsu joins the lab for his dissertation research. Welcome, Chris!
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Robin Aguilar is awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship. Congrats, Robin!
May 2021
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Melissa Phung-Rojas (Case Western Reserve University, Biology and Cognitive Science) joins the lab as joint summer undergraduate researcher with the Shendure Lab. Welcome, Melissa!
April 2021
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at the CSHL Biology of Genomes conference. Congrats, Robin!
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Eva K. Nichols is awarded a Genome Training Grant postdoctoral fellowship. Congrats, Eva!
March 2021
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Lincoln Harris (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the spring quarter. Welcome, Lincoln!
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Jackson Zariski graduates and prepares to head off to the University of Arizona Applied Mathematics PhD program. Congrats, Jackson—and farewell!
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Alisa Tvorun-Dunn graduates and prepares to head off to the Dartmouth Quantitative Biomedical Sciences MS program. Congrats, Alisa—and farewell!
Feburary 2021
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Robin Aguilar's Career Column article, Breaking the binary by coming out as a trans scientist, is published in Nature. Congrats!
January 2021
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Shayan Avanessian (MCB) and Chris Hsu (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the winter quarter. Welcome, Chris and Shayan!
October 2020
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at the CSHL Biological Data Science meeting. Congrats, Robin!
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Leah Anderson (GS) and Aidan Keith (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome, Aidan and Leah!
September 2020
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Robin Aguilar is named a poster award finalist at the 2020 Genome Sciences Retreat. Congrats, Robin!
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation & lightning talk at the T2T / HPRC 2020. Congrats, Robin!
July 2020
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A paper in collaboration with the Ting Wu and Marc Marti-Renom labs in which Elliot Hershberg participated, 3D mapping and accelerated super-resolution imaging of the human genome using in situ sequencing, is published in Nature Methods. Congrats!
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Robin Aguilar wins the General Computational Biology – Best Poster Award at ISMB 2020. Congrats, Robin!
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A preprint led by Elliot Hershberg and featuring contributions from Conor Camplisson, Sahar Attar, Yuzhen Liu, and Ryan Chern—PaintSHOP enables the interactive design of transcriptome- and genome-scale oligonucleotide FISH experiments—goes online at bioRxiv. Congrats all!
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Eva K. Nichols joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow (joint with the Shendure Lab). Welcome, Eva!
June 2020
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Ryan Chern is awarded a Herschel Roman Scholarship. Congrats, Ryan!
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Jumana Fathima (UW Bioengineering) joins the lab as a summer undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Jumana!
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Conor Camplisson (GS) and Yuzhen Liu (MCB) join the lab for their dissertation research. Welcome, Yuzhen and Conor!
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Robin Aguilar crushes the General Exam and officially becomes a PhD candidate. Congrats, Robin!
May 2020
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at ISMB 2020. Congrats, Robin!
April 2020
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A paper in collaboration with Prof. Massimiliano Pagani's lab in which Elliot Hershberg participated, OligoMinerApp: a web-server application for the design of genome-scale oligonucleotide in situ hybridization probes through the flexible OligoMiner environment, is published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congrats!
March 2020
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Ryan Chern is awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Congrats, Ryan!
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Elliot Hershberg is accepted to and decides to enroll in the Stanford Genetics PhD program. Congrats, Elliot!
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Zorian Thornton (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the spring quarter. Welcome, Zorian!
February 2020
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Alisa Tvorun-Dunn is accepted to the RNA Bioscience Initiative Summer Internship Program at University of Colorado Denver. Congrats, Alisa!
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Sahar Attar joins the lab as a research assistant (joint with the Akliesh Lab). Welcome, Sahar!
December 2019
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We obtain some important new lab equipment.


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Haitham Shaban visits the lab for a week as part of the Research Exchange Program. Welcome, Haitham!
October 2019
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Elliot, Robin, Lily, and Brian travel to the Pairing Hoedown in Cleveland!

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Lab potluck to welcome Soyeon, Yuzhen, and Conor!

September 2019
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Conor Camplisson (GS), Yuzhen Liu (MCB), and Soyeon Showman (MCB) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome all!
August 2019
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We have our first lab retreat!

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A preprint from the Kelley Harris lab in which Robin Aguilar participated—Selection against archaic DNA in human regulatory regions—is posted on bioRxiv. Congrats, Robin!
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Lily Deng has an abstract chosen for a talk at GRC Genome Architecture in Cell Fate and Disease 2019. Congrats, Lily!
July 2019
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Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at ASHG 2019. Congrats, Robin!
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Jackson Zariski is awarded a Herschel Roman Scholarship. Congrats, Jackson!
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