The Lawson Lab has a new preprint, “Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific gene expression.” Celine St. Pierre, a graduate student in the lab, is first author. Congratulations, all!
The Lawson Lab has a new preprint, “Integrated transcriptomics identifies β-cell subpopulations and genetic networks associated with obesity and glycemic control in SM/J mice.” Congratulations, all!
The Lawson Lab recently published a review in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, “Pancreatic β-cell heterogeneity in health and diabetes: classes, sources, and subtypes.” Alex Miranda, a grad student in the Lawson Lab, is...
The Lawson Lab recently published a paper in Physiological Reports, “Spontaneous restoration of functional β‐cell mass in obese SM/J mice.” Alex Miranda, a graduate student in the lab, is lead author on the paper. Heather Lawson, PhD, Assistant Professor...
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, “TRAP-based allelic translation efficiency imbalance analysis to identify genetic regulation of ribosome occupancy in specific cell types in vivo.” The work was done in collaboration with the Lawson Lab. Yating Liu, a...
The Lawson Lab has a new preprint, “Spontaneous restoration of functional β-cell mass in obese SM/J mice.” Alex Miranda, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, is first author on the preprint. Heather Lawson, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of...
The Lawson Lab recently published a paper in Physiological Genomics, “Genetic background and diet affect brown adipose gene co-expression networks associated with metabolic phenotypes.” Caryn Carson, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the...
Caryn Carson, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, recently won first place in the Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Immunology category in the 2020 AAAS Student E-poster Competition. Congratulations, Caryn!
The Lawson Lab has a new preprint, “Genetic background and diet affect brown adipose gene co-expression – metabolic associations.” Caryn Carson, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the preprint. Heather Lawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in...
Celine St. Pierre, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, was recently awarded best presentation at the 2019 MGG/CSB/HSG retreat. Congratulations, Celine!
The Lawson Lab has a new pre-print, “Natural brown adipose expansion and remission of hyperglycemia in obese SM/J mice.” Caryn Carson and Mario Miranda, graduate students in the Lawson Lab, are first authors on the pre-print. Heather Lawson, Ph.D.,...
Celine St. Pierre, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, recently received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her project, “Unraveling how parent-of-origin effects contribute to complex traits.” Congratulations, Celine!
Alex Miranda, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, was recently inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in graduate education. Congratulations, Alex!
The Lawson Lab recently had a preprint published. The preprint, “Epistatic Networks Associated with Parent-of-Origin Effects on Metabolic Traits,” presents genes and networks that represent a set of actionable interacting candidates that can be probed to...
The Lawson Lab recently had a paper published in Nutrition & Metabolism. The paper, “Dietary iron interacts with genetic background to influence glucose homeostasis,” shows the importance of accounting for genetic variation when assessing the effects...
Celine St. Pierre, a graduate student in the Lawson lab in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is an author on a paper recently published in Nature Communications. The study, “Genome wide association analysis in a...
Congratulations to graduate students Celine St. Pierre, Nicolette Laird, and Gervette Penny for winning “Best Poster” awards at the recent DBBS retreat. Celine, a member of the Lawson lab, won for the Human and Statistical Genomics program (HSG); Nicolette Laird, a...
The Lawson lab recently had two papers accepted for publication. The first, “The Epigenetics of Metabolic Syndrome,” by first author Caryn Carson, a graduate student in the Lawson lab, will appear in an upcoming issue of Physiological Genomics 2018. The...
