Welcome to Aditya who joins our laboraty as an undergraduate researcher from UCSD!
January 2024
Mickey gave a talk and Mickey and Karthy presented a
poster at the Keystone Symposium on Single-Cell Biology:
Tissue Genomics, Technologies and Disease in Vancouver,
BC!
November 2023
Congrats to Kiki for passing her qualifying exam!
October 2023
Welcome to Brad Balderson who joins our laboratory as a postdoc after completing his PhD at the University of Queensland!
So long and congrats to Jessica Zhou who has started a postdoctoral scholar in the Koo Lab at Cold Spring Harbor.
Congrats to Karthik for being awarded the Data Science Scholar Award from the Halicioglu Data Science Institute!
Congrats to Mike Cuoco for passing his Senate Exam!
Congrats to Shanna for being awarded a Pioneer Fund Postdoctoral Scholar Award!
Congrats to Jessica for being awarded an SRF Career Advancement Award!
Welcome to SURF summer student Elise Marvin who joins us from Gonzaga University
May 2023
Graham was promoted to Associate Professor!
April 2023
Our preprint "Genome-wide analysis of CRISPR
perturbations indicates that enhancers act multiplicatively
and without epistatic-like
interactions" is
now available on BioRxiv
We were awarded a Kavli Small Equipment Grant for the
purchase of a MaxCyte ATx instrument!
January 2023
We have been awarded a Hillblom Foundation Network Award with the Gaulton Lab at UCSD for our research project "Epigenomic silencing of cell type-specific regulatory elements to protect against type 1 diabetes"!
November 2022
Congrats to undergraduate student Karthik for delivering a great talk at the Biological Data Science conference at Cold Spring Harbor!
October 2022
Congrats to Jeff Jaureguy for passing his qualifying exam!
September 2022
We were awarded a CUREBOUND grant to support the
research project being led by postdoctoral scholar Arko Sen:
“Determining the impact of regulatory mutations and
dysregulated transcription factors in neuroblastoma"!
Welcome to Ella Say who joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher!
Welcome to Avery Pong, a first year BISB student who will rotate in our laboratory this quarter!
August 2022
So long to STARS undergraduate students Cherish and Gabriel!
July 2022
Welcome to Ariana Fonseca who joins the lab as a Research Assistant!
June 2022
Congrats to Karthik who is participating in the Bruins in Genomics summer research program at UCLA
Welcome to STARS summer students Cherish from Xavier University of Lousiana and Gabriel from Cal State San Marcos!
Welcome Bev, our new lab admin!
Welcome to Kiki Spaulding who has decided to join our lab for her PhD!
April 2022
Congrats to former lab member Arya and lab affiliate Mike Cuoco for both being awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
Welcome to David Laub who is rotating in the lab this quarter from the UCSD BISB program
March 2022
Congrats to Jessica for being awarded an F31 Fellowship from NIDA!
February 2022
Our paper "Allele-specific expression reveals genes with recurrent cis-regulatory alterations in high-risk neuroblastoma" has been accepted for publication in Genome Biology. Congrats to lead author Arko Sen!
Welcome to Karthy Sajeev who joins the laboratory as an undergraduate researcher from UCSD!
January 2022
Welcome to Kimberly Spaulding and Gege Qian, first year UCSD BISB students who are rotating in the lab this quarter!
December 2021
Our paper "Leveraging Allele-Specific Expression for Therapeutic Response Gene Discovery in Glioblastoma" has been accepted for publication in Cancer Research! Congrats to lead authors Arko Sen from our lab and Briana Prager from the Rich lab!
September 2021
Our laboratory was awarded a Genomic Innovatory Award from NHGRI, which will support our research on using CRISPR-directed genome perturbations to interpret trait-associated human genetic variation! Press release here.
Welcome to Jeff Jaureguy, who joinds our lab as a BISB PhD student after doing a summer internship at Genentech
Goodbye to Sherry who is moving on to UCLA to pursue a masters degree in computer science!
August 2021
Congrats to Shanna for being awarded a diversity supplement from NIDDK, which will support her research on type 1 diabetes in collaboration with the Gaulton Lab at UCSD.
Goodby to Aaron Chen who is departing our laboratory to attend medical school at Stony Brook University!
July 2021
Our paper, "Discovering single nucleotide variants and
indels from bulk and single-cell ATAC-seq", was published in
Nucleic
Acids Research. Congrats to all authors including
current and former lab members Arya, Arko, Jeff and Selene!
Welcome to Shanna Lavalle who joins our lab as a
Postdoctoral Scholar!
June 2021
Welcome to STARS summer students Jasmine Castellanos from Cal State Fullerton and Etchi Ako from UC Riverside!
April 2021
Welcome to Mike Cuoco a rotation student from the UCSD
BISB program!
Welcome to Sherry Huang joins our
lab as a junior scientific programmer!
Welcome to Aaron Ho, who joins our lab as a junior
scientific programmer!
February 2021
Congrats to Dr. Patrick for successfully defending his
dissertation. His is the first student to obtain his PhD in
the lab!
January 2021
Congrats to Jessica for passing her Senate Exam!
September 2020
Our paper, "Discovering functional sequences with RELICS,
an analysis method for CRISPR screens", is
now published
in PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations to all of
the authors including Patrick, Hsiuyi, Aaron and Benson!
Welcome to Jeff, a roation student from the UCSD BISB program.
Mickey has decided to join the lab for his Ph.D.!
August 2020
Congratulations to Patrick for being a semi-finalist for
the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award, and for being
selected to give a talk at this year's (virtual) ASHG conference.
July 2020
A huge congratulations to former student Lillian for
winning FIRST PLACE in the Regeneron Science Talent Search!
Article in Forbes.
June 2020
Welcome to Mickey, a rotation student from the UCSD BMS PhD program.
May 2020
Welcome back to the lab Arya, and congratulations on being
accepted into the UCSD BISB PhD program and graduating from
Harvey Mudd!
Congratulations to Aaron for completing his undergraduate
degree at UCSD in Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
Welcome Karthik, who joins us as a UCSD undergraduate researcher.
April 2020
Welcome to Chris, a rotation student from the UCSD BMS program.
February 2020
Congrats to Hsiuyi for being awarded a 2020 Salk Women & Science Award!
January 2020
Congrats to Lillian for being one of the 40 finalists for
this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s
oldest and most prestigious science competition for high
school seniors.
December 2019
Congrats to Hsiuyi for being awarded a 2020 Salk Alumni Fellowship!
Congrats to Lillian for being offered early admission to Harvard University!
Jessica and Patrick attend the Probabilistic Modeling in
Genomics Conference in Aussois, France. Jessica presents a
poster and Patrick gives a talk. Congrats to both for being
awarded travel scholarships to attend the meeting!
June 2019
Welcome Lillian, who joins us as a summer student from Los Alamos High School.
May 2019
Welcome back Arya, who joins the lab for a second summer internship.
March 2019
Congratulations to Jessica, who is awarded
a Fulbright
Scholarship to study abroad in Berlin, Germany for one
year!
February 2019
Welcome to Annabell, our new research administrative assistant.
January 2019
Joe, a BISB PhD student, begins a rotation in the lab.
December 2018
So long to Beth, who is switching to full-time admin support for the Gage lab.