It has been a big week for the lab and we are happy to finally return to lab.

We are thrilled to welcome Asmita to the lab. Asmita started as a Technical Associate on Monday of this week and we are very excited about her joining the team. She has already started culturing cells and doing some imaging.

And Harvey was the 2020-2021 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship. MathWorks is the company behind MATLAB and is supporting Harvey's computational work for the next year. A big congratulations to Harvey and thank you to MathWorks.

Congratulations to Shdema on being awarded a post-doctoral fellowship through the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program for the academic year of 2020-2021. We look forward to Shdema joining us in August. Here is the full announcement.

In these uncertain times, it is especially nice to receive good news.

Viraat received honorable mention for his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GFRP) application. He can be found here. Congratulations to Viraat!

Michele received a post-doctoral fellowship "award without funding" from the Autism Science Foundation. Due to COVID-19 they are not currently providing funded awards, but the "project was considered to be so meritorious that it would have received funding". Congratulations to Michele!

Denise is celebrating 30 years with MIT today. What a milestone. Congratulations to Denise!

The ultra-high resolution Micro-C paper in mouse embryonic stem cells is published in Molecular Cell. Besides capturing Compartments, TADs, Loops, Stripes/Flames, Micro-C is uniquely capable of capturing transcription-associated chromatin interactions such as Enhancer-Promoter (E-P) and Promoter-Promoter (P-P) interactions.
This paper was led by Stanley Tsung-Han Hsieh and please read the full story here. A complementary Micro-C paper back-to-back can be found here.

We are proud to be donating 57,000 nitrile gloves to local Cambridge/Boston area hospitals!

Two new protocols led by Claudia Cattoglio are now published with detailed step-by-step guidelines.
The first provides a detailed protocol for how to measure the absolute abundance (#proteins per cell) of any Halo-Tagged protein in a couple of afternoons using just Flow Cytometry based on our 2019 paper and can be found here: https://bio-protocol.org/e3527
The second protocol provides detailed step-by-step guidance for to carry out robust co-IP experiments, for example of the same protein with two different epitope tags and can be found here: https://bio-protocol.org/e3526

We are officially a lab. Michele Gabriele has joined as the lab's first post-doc and Viraat Goel and Jin (Harvey) Yang have joined as the first two graduate students from MIT's Biological Engineering program. Science is happening!