Congratulations to Ava who did a great job presenting her summer research with Sumin at the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) poster presentation session. It was great having you here this summer and all the best for your final year at Howard!

We are thrilled to welcome Jacob Kæstel-Hansen and Daria Sels to the lab this Summer. 

Jacob joins us as a post-doc with a Novo-Nordisk Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, having just completed his PhD at the University of Copenhagen in nanoscience and machine learning. During his PhD, Jacob developed a number of new computational tools for analysis of microscopy movies and trajectories using machine learning and other approaches and Jacob will continue in this vein here applying his expertise to understand the 3D genome. Welcome Jacob!

Daria joins us for her Master's thesis as part of her studies at the University of Brussels. Daria will be working with Michele on understanding distal gene regulation in the context of neuronal development. Welcome Daria!

Thanks to Michele for once again leading the annual lab photoshoot, this year in front of the main MIT building on Mass Ave.

Our lab potluck was a success, filled with delicious dishes from around the world. We enjoyed fun conversations and nice food!

We are excited to welcome Ava and Vicky who started earlier in June.
Ava joins us from the MIT Summer Research Program and is working with Sumin on understanding Polycomb bodies.
Vicky joins us from the MIT BE graduate program for a summer rotation.

Check out our new collaborative paper in Molecular Cell led by Amanda Waterbury, Hui Si Kwok, and Ceejay Lee in the Brian Liau lab at Harvard with imaging contributions from Domenic on understanding how the IDRs in LSD1 contribute to its function here.

Big thank you to NIH NIBIB for funding our R01 grant on nascent transcription imaging and analyses. This will provide crucial funding for the coming years.