Congratulations to the Theunissen and Solnica-Krezel Lab’s on their recent publication! Derivation of trophoblast stem cells from naïve human pluripotent stem cells. Dong C, Beltcheva M, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Popli P, Fischer LA, Khan SA, Park KM, Yoon EJ, Xing X, Kommagani R, Wang T, Solnica-Krezel L, Theunissen TW. Elife. 2020 Feb 12;9:e52504.
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Morris’s Lab on their recent publication! CellTagging: combinatorial indexing to simultaneously map lineage and identity at single-cell resolution. Kong W, Biddy BA, Kamimoto K, Amrute JM, Butka EG, Morris SA. Nat Protoc . 2020 Mar;15(3):750-772.
Lauren Walker, former graduate student of Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, has received the 2020 Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium Award for her talk at the 79th Society for Developmental Biology Meeting. Lauren is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Granato’s lab.
Douglas F. Covey, the Andrew C. and Barbara B. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Congratulations to Dr. Doug Covey! To read more, click here
Scientists generate early stem cells that form human placenta Such cells aid efforts to understand miscarriage, preterm birth, other pregnancy complications To read more, click here
We are delighted to announce that Geoffrey Goodhill, Ph.D., will be joining Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on January 1, 2021, to be dually appointed as Professor in the departments of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. In his interdisciplinary research Dr. Goodhill combines mathematical and experimental approaches to investigate the computational principles underlying […]
Margot Williams, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow in Lila Solnica-Krezel’s laboratory, received the IZFS 2020 Chi-Bin Chien Award. Margot is currently an Assistant Professor in the Center for Precision Environmental Health and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her outstanding research contributions and dedication to the zebrafish field truly […]
Congratulations to Mitsukuni Yoshida! Mitsukuni Yoshida, a MSTP student in Dr. Shin Imai’s laboratory in the Neuroscience Program, has received the 2020 Needleman Prize! The Needleman Prize is presented to a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of Pharmacology.
Congratulations to Kel Vin Woo, MD, PhD! Kel Vin Wo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab, has received a $100,000 ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigator Program Award through Actelion Pharmaceuticals for his project entitled “Endothelial Drug Targets for Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension”.
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Kroll’s Lab on their new publication! Cellular and molecular characterization of multiplex autism in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Lewis EMA, Meganathan K, Baldridge D, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Bonni A, Constantino JN, Kroll KL. Mol Autism. 2019 Dec 30;10:51.