To celebrate one of our most exciting years yet, we held our first lab retreat in New Hampshire. Productive brainstorming sessions were followed by home-cooked meals, team building activities, and The Chen Lab Board Game.
We can't wait to see what 2024 has in store!
In April,
@s_mangiameli
’s new method for genomic and epigenomic measurements within spatial regions of interest, Photoselective Sequencing (PSS), was published in Nature Methods!
@dawnchenx
and
@SandeepKambham2
got exciting news about fellowships:
Dawn was awarded the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship and Sandeep was awarded an NSF GRFP!
Fast forward to December, we published two Nature papers, both released on the same day!
Congrats to
@AndyRusss
,
@jacksonweir4
, and
@Naeemnadaff
for Slide-tags and to Jonah and Nina for the spatial mouse brain atlas!
Excited to share two new papers, published today in
@Nature
!
Check them out here:
(1) Slide-tags, a new method to unite single-cell and spatial profiling:
Throughout the year we said goodbye to lab members as they moved on to exciting new positions:
Sarah took on a new position at Digital Biology and Hattie began as Assistant Professor at Yale to lead her own lab!
Excited to announce I will start as an Assistant Professor
@Yale
@YaleMed
on Jan 1, 2024! Our lab's mission is to build tools to study cellular states in their native tissue contexts, focusing on drug response, aging, and cardiovascular disease.
We saw the graduation of our first two Chen lab PhDs.
Dylan is completing a post-doc at Stanford and will be starting his own lab at UMichigan soon!
Sophia is now leading the Liu Lab at the Ragon Institute as an Early Independence Fellow!
The Ragon is proud to welcome our newest Early Independence Fellow, Sophia Liu (
@immunoliugy
), joining Sept 1. Her lab will focus on tools to study cell interactions for enhanced understanding of the immune system.
Welcome, Dr. Liu!
#RagonInstitute
#Immunology
#WomenInSTEM
@Irving_Barrera1
started medical school at Harvard, Simon started graduate school in New York,
@WollensakDavid
moved to Johns Hopkins to start his PhD, Diane joined the Duke MD-PhD program, and
@anlau19
began a research position at Stanford!
We were also excited to welcome new scientists to the lab:
@doralidsy
and Yunhao started as post-docs,
@kevin921tw
and Nick joined as PhD students, Mehdi began as a senior computational associate,
@yupines
and DK joined as RAs, and Larissa and Matthew started as undergrads.