December: Dr. Gregory became the first Stem Cell Biology Endowed Chair for Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics.
October: Mehdi was awarded a Manton Center Fellowship with Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research. Congratulations Mehdi!
October: Robinson completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He is now a Scientist at Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics in Watertown, Mass.
September: Junho and Shuibin’s manuscript titled ‘mRNA circularization by METTL3-eIF3h enhances translation and promotes oncogenesis’ was published in Nature.
August: Jia Cui, PhD, joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Jia earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
August: Peng completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us and moved back to China. Peng is Assistant Professor in the College of Life Sciences at Peking University, and Principal Investigator in Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences.
July: Shuibin's manuscript titled ‘Mettl1/Wdr4-Mediated m7G tRNA Methylome Is Required for Normal mRNA Translation and Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation’ was published in Molecular Cell.
June: Lauren Gunasti has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Williams College majoring in Chemistry.
June: Amy Jia has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
May: Esteban Orellana, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Esteban earned his PhD in Biological Sciences from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
May: Peng's manuscript entitled ‘An Intermediate Pluripotent State Controlled by MicroRNAs Is Required for the Naive-to-Primed Stem Cell Transition’ was published in Cell Stem Cell.
May: Shuibin completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He moved back to China to start his own lab at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Shuibin serves as Principal Investigator/Professor in the Center for Translational Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital.