February 11, 2022: Six researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Richard Axelbaum, PhD, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, along with five researchers at the School of Medicine —...
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 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...
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 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,...
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....
Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, has a new preprint, “The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes.” Moudgil is a first author and Ting Wang, PhD, the Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of...
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...
Dr. Joseph Dougherty and Dr. Robi Mitra were recently awarded an NIH grant. The award for the project, “Parallel Analysis of Transcription and Protein-DNA Interactions in Single CNS Cells,” supports Dougherty and Mitra’s work at Washington University...
