The Morris Lab contributed to a new paper published in Developmental Cell, “Localized EMT reprograms glial progenitors to promote spinal cord repair.” Dana Klatt Shaw, PhD, a postdoc in the Mokalled Lab at Washington University School of Medicine, is lead...
Samantha Morris, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine, recently collaborated on a perspective piece published in Cell Stem Cell, “Computational Stem Cell Biology: Open Questions and Guiding...
The Morris Lab and the Solnica-Krezel Lab published a new paper in eLife, “High-resolution transcriptional and morphogenetic profiling of cells from micropatterned human ESC gastruloid cultures.” Kyaw Thu Minn, a graduate student in the Solnica-Krezel Lab,...
The Morris Lab has a new review published in Developmental Cell, “Next-Generation Lineage Tracing and Fate Mapping to Interrogate Development.” It discusses the history of these disciplines and how single-cell genomic technologies are enabling the...
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 Morris Lab recently had a paper published, “Single-Cell Analysis of Neonatal HSC Ontogeny Reveals Gradual and Uncoordinated Transcriptional Reprogramming that Begins before Birth.” The paper is published in Cell Stem Cell and done in collaboration with...
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....
Christy Hoffmann, a graduate student in the Morris Lab, was recently awarded a fellowship the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The program “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science,...
Samantha Morris, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Allen Distinguished Investigator, recently joined Development as an associate editor. Morris’s appointment comes as the journal responds to...
The Morris Lab has two new preprints: The first, “Capybara: A computational tool to measure cell identity and fate transitions,” includes first author Wenjun Kong, a graduate student in the lab; Yuheng Fu, an undergraduate student in the lab; and Samantha...
Samantha Morris, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine, was named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. The fellowship honors scholars in the U.S. and Canada “whose creativity, leadership, and independent...
The Morris Lab has a new preprint with the Solnica-Krezel Lab, “High-resolution transcriptional and morphogenetic profiling of cells from micropatterned human embryonic stem cell gastruloid cultures.” Read more about the preprint and the authors...
Samantha A. Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was recently named an Allen Distinguished Investigator by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group of the Allen Institute. Morris,...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently published an article in Nature. The article, “Cell identity reprogrammed,” focuses on John Gurdon’s...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the university including Ben Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D., Bo Zhang, P.hD., and...
The Morris Lab published a paper recently in Genome Biology. The paper, “CellTag Indexing: genetic barcode-based sample multiplexing for single-cell genomics,” presents “CellTag Indexing as a broadly applicable genetic multiplexing tool that is...
The Morris Lab has a new preprint, “Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Regional Reprogramming during Adaptation to Massive Small Bowel Resection in Mice.” The study, which was carried out in collaboration with the Warner Lab at Washington University School of...
Susan Dutcher, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology & Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine, and Samantha A. Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine, were...
The Morris Lab has updated their preprint on CellTag-based multiplexing. In the updated preprint, the lab now shows the advantage of a “living label” for tracking cells in an in vivo competitive transplant setting. Lab members found that their transplanted...
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...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Susan Dutcher, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in...
The Morris lab had a spotlight published recently in Developmental Cell. The spotlight is on Barbara Treutlein’s and Elly Tanaka’s recent single-cell analysis of axolotl regeneration. Guillermo Rivera-Gonzalez, Ph.D., a postdoc in the Morris lab, is first...
The Morris lab published a paper recently in Nature. The paper, “Single-cell mapping of lineage and identity in direct reprogramming,” shows that expression of a putative methyltransferase, Mettl7a1, is associated with the successful reprogramming...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, collaborated with the Humphreys lab on a recently published paper. The paper, “Comparative Analysis and Refinement of...
