News

April 2021

• Eva K. Nichols is awarded a Genome Training Grant postdoctoral fellowship. Congrats, Eva!

March 2021

• Lincoln Harris (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the spring quarter. Welcome, Lincoln!

• Jackson Zariski graduates and prepares to head off to the University of Arizona Applied Mathematics PhD program. Congrats, Jackson—and farewell!

• Alisa Tvorun-Dunn graduates and prepares to head off to the Dartmouth Quantitative Biomedical Sciences MS program. Congrats, Alisa—and farewell!

Feburary 2021

• Robin Aguilar's Career Column article, Breaking the binary by coming out as a trans scientist, is published in Nature. Congrats!

January 2021

• Shayan Avanessian (MCB) and Chris Hsu (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the winter quarter. Welcome, Chris and Shayan!

October 2020

• Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at the CSHL Biological Data Science meeting. Congrats, Robin!

• Leah Anderson (GS) and Aidan Keith (GS) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome, Aidan and Leah!

September 2020

• Robin Aguilar is named a poster award finalist at the 2020 Genome Sciences Retreat. Congrats, Robin!

• Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation & lightning talk at the T2T / HPRC 2020. Congrats, Robin!

July 2020

• 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!

• Robin Aguilar wins the General Computational Biology – Best Poster Award at ISMB 2020. Congrats, Robin!

• 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!

• Eva K. Nichols joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow (joint with the Shendure Lab). Welcome, Eva! 

June 2020

• Jumana Fathima (UW Bioengineering) joins the lab as a summer undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Jumana!

• Conor Camplisson (GS) and Yuzhen Liu (MCB) join the lab for their dissertation research. Welcome, Yuzhen and Conor!

• Robin Aguilar crushes the General Exam and officially becomes a PhD candidate. Congrats, Robin!

May 2020

• Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at ISMB 2020. Congrats, Robin!

April 2020

• 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

• Ryan Chern is awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Congrats, Ryan!

• Elliot Hershberg is accepted to and decides to enroll in the Stanford Genetics PhD program. Congrats, Elliot!

• Zorian Thornton (GS) joins the lab as a rotation student for the spring quarter. Welcome, Zorian!

February 2020

• Alisa Tvorun-Dunn is accepted to the RNA Bioscience Initiative Summer Internship Program at University of Colorado Denver. Congrats, Alisa!

• Sahar Attar joins the lab as a research assistant (joint with the Akliesh Lab). Welcome, Sahar! 

September 2019

• Conor Camplisson (GS), Yuzhen Liu (MCB), and Soyeon Showman (MCB) join the lab as rotation students for the fall quarter. Welcome all!

July 2019

• Robin Aguilar has an abstract chosen for a poster presentation at ASHG 2019. Congrats, Robin!

• Jackson Zariski is awarded a Herschel Roman Scholarship. Congrats, Jackson!

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