This week we are excited to welcome Emma Magee to the lab. Emma joins us as a Technical Associate, having previously worked as a Research Associate at the Broad Institute on developing methods for simultaneously measuring protein and gene expression levels in single cells.

Emma will be working with Miles and in collaboration with Fei Chen's lab at the Broad/Harvard on developing new genome-editing and imaging methods.

Welcome Emma!

Thank you to The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust and the Pew Foundation for funding our work on enhancer dysregulation in cancer.

We are very happy to join the 2021 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars and begin the work.

More information can be found here.

This week we are welcoming Isadora De Abreu, who is joining us for the summer as part of the MRSP summer program. Isodora is currently an undergraduate at Nova Southeastern University and will be working with Michele on turning our stem cells into neurons. Welcome Isadora!

Thank you to the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation for funding our grant "Enhancer Dysregulation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders" to support Michele's work on understanding the molecular basis for a neurodevelopmental disorder for 2021-2023

Congratulations to Miles and Michele on being awarded post-doc fellowships to support their research!

Michele has been awarded the American-Italian Cancer Foundation's Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for 2021/22.

Miles will likely have to choose between two fellowships, including the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship.

We have a new R33 grant. Thanks to the National Cancer Institute’s IMAT (Innovate Molecular Analysis Technologies) of the NIH for funding Shdema’s work on how focal amplifications of MYC enhancers cause oncogene overexpression in cancer. Our project “Super-Resolution Microscopy for Dynamic Analysis of Focal Enhancer Amplifications in Cancer” was awarded $1,143,925 over the next 3 years (2021-2024). Thanks NCI and NIH!

Come and join us!

In a new joint project with Fei Chen's lab, we are looking to add a new Technical Associate I / Research assistant to our team to work on an exciting new project.

The goal of the project is to develop next-generation genome-editing methods for labeling endogenous loci of interest.

This project is part of the Broad Institute's new Gene Regulation Observatory.

A more complete description can be found on the left or downloaded here.

To apply, please submit your application via the MIT Jobs Portal: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=19908&localeCode=en-us or go to https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/search/search.html and search for Job ID # 19350.

As of March 1st, we have joined the KI which specializes in Cancer Research as extramural members - this will be a great catalyst and community for our cancer-related work.

It has been an exciting week.

Sarah Nemsick and Domenic Narducci have joined the lab.

Both Sarah and Domenic joins us from the Biological Engineering graduate program.

Moreover, Feb 1st was the 1-year birthday of the lab. What a year it has been. Due to a snowstorm we celebrated the day after, gathering and getting to know each other through a game of resistance.