Tomás Lagunas Jr, a graduate student in the Dougherty Lab, recently won the student presentation award in Genetics at the SACNAS 2020 conference. The SACNAS organization is “dedicated to fostering the success of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans, from...
The Buchser Lab has a new preprint, “Low-Cost Manually Assembled Open Source Reader for Isothermal Pathogen Detection from Saliva using RT-LAMP: SARS-CoV-2 Use Case.” Jack Bramley, a staff scientist in the lab, is lead author on the preprint. Senior...
Samantha Morris, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was recently named a 2020 NYSCF-Roberston Investigator. The NYSCF Investigator Program encourages promising early career...
The Jin Lab recently had a paper published in Nature Medicine, “Exome sequencing implicates genetic disruption of prenatal neuro-gliogenesis in sporadic congenital hydrocephalus.” Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “Shared developmental gait disruptions across two mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders.” Rachel Rahn, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the preprint. Joe Dougherty, PhD, Associate Professor of...
Eli Lilly & Company recently acquired Disarm Therapeutics, a pre-clinical NAD-boosting company treating neuropathy and neurodegenerative diseases, for $135 million and a potential additional $1.2 billion in milestones. Disarm was founded by Atlas Venture; Jeff...
The Wang Lab recently collaborated on a paper in Nature, “Cell-type-specific 3D epigenomes in the developing human cortex.” Senior authors include Dr. Yin Shen from the University of California, San Francisco; Dr. Arnold Kriegstein from the University of...
Jeffrey R. Milbrandt, MD, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Professor and head of the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine, and Robi Mitra, PhD, the Alvin Goldfarb Professor of Computational Biology and a professor of genetics at Washington...
The Lawson Lab published a paper recently in Cell Reports, “Brown Adipose Expansion and Remission of Glycemic Dysfunction in Obese SM/J Mice.” Caryn Carson, a graduate student in the lab who recently earned her PhD, is lead author on the paper. Heather...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure Affects Early-Life Communicative Behaviors, Sensorimotor Reflexes, and Weight Trajectory in Mice.” Elena Minakova, MD, a collaborating researcher in the lab and a a neonatologist at...
