News

2023

08.14 Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Xin Zhao!
08.09 Ryan won an award for best poster at the PSU Chromatin meeting!
08.06 Purbita received a travel award to present her work at the PSU Chromatin meeting!
06.01 Congrats to the lab on renewal of our Welch Foundation award!
04.13 Congrats to Sara, Purbita, and Altair for their collaborative publication in Elife!
02.15 Congrats to Amanuel, Ryan, and Sara for publishing their work in Genome Biology!

2022

10.15 Purbita received a GSO travel award to attend the ASBMB Transcription & Chromatin meeting! Good show!
08.15 Big news - the lab renewed our NIGMS R35 and received a new NICHD R01 to support our work!
08.01 Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Sarah Bahraoui!
07.05 Congrats to former postdoc, Dr. Sara Martire, for publishing her collaborative work in Cancer Research!
06.08 Congrats to our clinical fellow, Dr. Jennifer Shannon, for publishing her work in MHR!
05.15 Congrats to Altair on passing her qualifying exam with flying colors!
05.01 Welcome to our new research technician, Hannah Henry!
02.09 Congrats to the first PhD from the lab, Amanuel Tafessu!

2021

06.23 Yu-Ching’s paper on ATRX at G4s is published in Nature Communications!
04.30 Purbita has qualified!
04.17 Shilpa received an NCI F31 fellowship!
03.01 Altair has joined the lab!
01.01 Sara received a postdoctoral fellowship from CRSM at UTSW!

2020

10.01 Amanuel’s review on enhancer chromatin is published in Open Biology!
09.01 Laura and the lab received an ACS Research Scholar Grant!
08.01 Sara’s review on histone variants is published in Nature Reviews Mol Cell Bio!
08.01 Sara’s work on CBP and p300 function is published in BMC MCB!
06.01 The lab’s new Welch Foundation award started today!
06.01 Shilpa and Ryan have qualified!
03.01 Purbita has joined the lab!

2019

05.31 Sara’s paper on H3.3 phosphorylation and histone acetylation is published in Nature Genetics!
04.24 Welcome to Ryan, Shilpa, Dina, Aishwarya, and Jen! Farewell to Minhua and Aishwarya!

2018

07.12 Farewell to Jennifer and Melodi! Enjoy sunny SoCal :)
03.07 Congrats to Sara for her PDA travel award to attend the Keystone Chromatin meeting.

2017

08.04 Thank you to NIH NIGMS for our MIRA award and first NIH funding!
07.26 Congrats to Haitao for having his work funded by the UTSW Kidney Cancer SPORE.
06.12 Welcome to Minhua and Jennifer!
05.17 Sara’s abstract was selected for a talk at the Epigenetic Gordon Research Seminar!
04.17 Laura is a Peterson Investigator of the NETRF. Thank you!
03.10 Farewell to the lab’s first member, Courtney. Thank you for everything!
02.24 Welcome to our first graduate student, Amanuel!

2016

11.01 Congrats to Yu-Ching on her Taiwan MOST Postdoctoral Research Abroad Fellowship
11.01 Welcome to our new postdoc, Haitao!
09.06 Welcome to our new postdoc, Amanda!
08.08 Welcome to our computational biologist, Aishwarya!
08.01 Congratulations to Sara for her American-Italian Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship!
06.01 The lab received its first external funding from the Welch Foundation!

2015

09.01 Welcome to our second postdoc, Yu-Ching!
08.01 Welcome to our first postdoc, Sara!
07.01 Welcome to our first lab member, Courtney!