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New National Science Foundation grant to fund the lab

1/11/2021

 
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Thank you to the NSF Molecular and Cellular Biosciences divisions for funding our grant proposal "Protein Regulators of 3D Genome Architecture: Dynamics, Mechanism and Function".

We will be working on better understanding how proteins regulate 3D genome architecture.

Thanks NSF!

New Review published - congratulations to Michele & Hugo

12/9/2020

 
Congratulations to Hugo and Michele on the publication of their co-written review in Current Opinion in Cell Biology. They discuss how Super-Resolution Live-Cell Imaging (SRLCI) can be used to track long-range chromatin interactions such as Enhancer-Promoter interactions and CTCF loops. They also discuss how to design such SRLCI experiments and highlight the associated technical challenges and pitfalls. Seeing is believing and the future of disentangling the function of the 3D genome is bright!
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Come and join our lab for a Summer Internship, 2021

12/4/2020

 
We are pleased to join the MIT Summer Research Program for the Summer of 2021. This program is fully paid and provides opportunities for undergraduates to come and do research at MIT for a summer. You can find more information on how to apply here. The MSRP Mission is:The MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) seeks to promote the value of graduate education; to improve the research enterprise through increased diversity; and to prepare and recruit the best and brightest for graduate education at MIT.
MSRP began in 1986 as an institutional effort to address the issue of underrepresentation of African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans in engineering and science in the United States. Today, this program’s goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and underserved (e.g. low socio-economic background, first generation) students in the research enterprise.
MSRP seeks to identify talented sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors who might benefit from spending a summer on MIT’s campus, conducting research under the guidance of MIT faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students.
Students who participate in this program will be better prepared and motivated to pursue advanced degrees, thereby helping to sustain a rich talent pool in critical areas of research and innovation.


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Celebrating the end of lab renovations

11/28/2020

 
We celebrated the end of our lab renovations with a delicious lunch from Mae's and with lab photos, professionally taken by Michele (we missed you, Shdema & Denise)! Our tissue culture room is now up and running with four biosafety cabinets. Our microscope rooms are ready and the rest of the lab has been spruced up too. It has been 19 months of planning and renovations and we are thrilled that our space is finally ready.
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Michele publishes a book chapter on YY1

10/31/2020

 
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Congratulations to Michele, who just published a book chapter on "Molecular mechanisms of YY1 overexpression in human cancers and its prognostic significance". Michele's PhD work characterized a human neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by YY1 haploinsufficiency.

Welcome to Miles

10/8/2020

 
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We are very excited to welcome Miles to the lab. Miles joins us from Oxford, where he completed his DPhil with Rob Klose, where he studied Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) using single-molecule imaging and genome-editing approaches.

Welcome Miles!

The lab is awarded an NIH Director's New Innovator Award

10/6/2020

 
We are very grateful to the NIH for awarding us an NIH Director's New Innovator Award (MIT press release; NIH press release). This award will support our synthetic 3D genome biology research program with $2,318,250 over the next 5 years, and it is funded by the NIH Common Fund. A list of all the awardees - which include our MIT colleagues Tami Lieberman and Michael Birnbaum - can be found here. Thank you, NIH!
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First review paper from the lab is published: Congrats to Viraat

10/1/2020

 
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The first review paper from the lab has now been published Open Access in WIREs Developmental Biology.

Viraat reviewed the development of chromosome conformation capture technologies, giving a historical account and discussing the insights into 3D genome structure and function that were gleaned from the application of these methods.

Viraat also placed special emphasis on Micro-C, a new technology for mapping 3D genome structure at unprecedented resolution and which is especially sensitive to transcriptionally relevant features of genome structure.

Congratulations to Viraat!

Official welcome to Shdema

9/18/2020

 
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Shdema has officially joined the lab and we are excited to welcome Shdema. Shdema will initially start in Israel due to COVID, before she will move to MIT later. She introduced the whole lab to her project at group meeting and was recently awarded a Zuckerman STEM fellowship to support her work.

Welcome Shdema!

Socially distant lab outing

8/21/2020

 
After months of virtual get-togethers, the Hansen lab gathered for a socially distant summer outing on the banks of the Charles. With stomachs full of Thai food, we spent the warm Boston evening chatting and trying to find the "spies" in the game of Resistance. With our first outing since March a resounding success, the Hansen lab is ready to take on the Fall semester!
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