News
April 2021
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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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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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