Be sure to check out these recently published articles: Congrats to Kelsey Krus (DiAntonio/Milbrandt labs) on her paper demonstrating that loss of STMN2 in mice induces slowly progressive motor deficits, a cardinal feature of ALS. Exciting work from the DiAntonio...
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of NIH, recently wrote a blog post that spotlights calling cards technology being developed by the Dougherty and Mitra Labs. As Collins writes about calling cards in the post: “These comprehensive maps allow (researchers) to...
The Mitra Lab has a new preprint, “Measuring Transcription Factor Binding and Gene Expression using Barcoded Self-Reporting Transposon Calling Cards and Transcriptomes.” Matt Lalli, a former postdoc in the Mitra Lab, is lead author on the preprint....
The Mitra Lab collaborated with the Rubin Lab and others on a paper published in PNAS, “Brd4-bound enhancers drive cell-intrinsic sex differences in glioblastoma.” Congratulations, all!
The Mitra Lab contributed to a new preprint, “Brd4-bound enhancers drive cell intrinsic sex differences in glioblastoma.” Najla Kfoury-Beaumont, PhD, a faculty research scientist at UCSD, is first author on the preprint. Robi Mitra, PhD, Professor...
The Mitra Lab recently had a paper accepted in Bioinformatics, “The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes.” Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, is first author. The Wang Lab contributed to the paper. Ting...
The Mitra and Milbrandt Labs had a paper published recently in Genome Research, “High-throughput single-cell functional elucidation of neurodevelopmental disease–associated genes reveals convergent mechanisms altering neuronal differentiation.” Matt Lalli,...
Matt Lalli, a postdoc in the Mitra and Milbrandt Labs, recently accepted a position as Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Congratulations, Matt! Best of...
The Mitra Lab recently had a paper accepted in Genome Research, “High-throughput single-cell functional elucidation of neurodevelopmental disease-associated genes reveals convergent mechanisms altering neuronal differentiation.” Matt Lalli, a postdoc in...
Zongtai Qi, a former graduate student in the Mitra Lab, is an author on a paper which was recently accepted in Molecular Biology and Evolution entitled, “Human L1 Transposition Dynamics Unraveled with Functional Data Analysis” in a collaboration led by the...
The Mitra Lab recently published a paper in Cell, “Self-Reporting Transposons Enable Simultaneous Readout of Gene Expression and Transcription Factor Binding in Single Cell.” Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, is first author on the paper....
Pam Recio and Lori Llaci have joined the Mitra Lab as graduate students. Pam received a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology from California State University Monterey Bay. Her undergraduate research involved assessing the role that specific genes-LAC1 and LAG1-...
A special thank you to Matt Lalli, a postdoc in the Mitra and Milbrandt Labs, Xuhua Chen, the lab manager in the Mitra Lab, Josh Langmade, a staff scientist in the Mitra Lab, and Michael Wilkinson, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, who worked throughout the...
The Milbrandt Lab and the Mitra Lab and scientists at the McDonnell Genome Institute have a new preprint, “Rapid and extraction-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 from saliva with colorimetric LAMP.” Matt Lalli, a postdoc in the Milbrandt and Mitra Labs, is a...
The Dougherty and Mitra Labs had a paper published in PNAS, “A viral toolkit for recording transcription factor–DNA interactions in live mouse tissues.” Alex Cammack, a graduate student in the Miller Lab who recently defended, is first author on the paper....
The Mitra Lab has a new paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, “Quantitative analysis of transcription factor binding and expression using calling cards reporter arrays.” Jiayue Liu, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the paper....
The Mitra Lab recently welcomed new lab members. India Reiss joined the lab as graduate student, Josh Langmade joined the lab as a staff scientist, and Jess Cohn joined the lab as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome to all!
Christian Shively, Ph.D., a postdoc in the Mitra Lab, recently had a paper published in PNAS. The paper, “Homotypic cooperativity and collective binding are determinants of bHLH specificity and function,” appears in a July 24, 2019 issue of the journal....
The Calling Cards team in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis had their preprint on self-reporting transposons selected for a prelight. The prelight contains additional insights about the paper from Arnav Moudgil, a...
Denis Avey, Ph.D., a postdoc in the Mitra and Milbrandt labs, had a paper accepted recently by Cell Reports. The paper, “Single cell RNAseq uncovers a robust transcriptional response to morphine by glia,” looks at the morphine-dependent transcriptional...
