Celebrating the end of the Fall semester with a 2020 group picture. Grateful to everyone in the lab persevering through this gauntlet of a year that is 2020. We are all hoping that we are able to do science IRL in 2021!
Welcome to new students joining the lab this semester! Obadiah Mulder (CBB PhD program) will work on single-cell gene regulatory networks. Undergraduate and Masters students Gina, Jaclyn, and Nikith will also join the lab for research experience this semester.
Adam hosted a mini-symposium at eSMB2020 with Russell Rockne (City of Hope). We featured four speakers presenting exciting work under the theme of modeling dynamics in single-cell biology.
Adam has joined the university-wide faculty of USC Stem Cell: an initiative to connect researchers tackling questions in stem cell biology from across the sciences, engineering, and the Keck School of Medicine.
Adam gave a talk at the virtual symposium this week between QCB and USC Stem Cell, focused on increasing collaboration between the two departments. The talk was entitled: Forcing cells to change lineages by cell-cell communication.
MeiLu joins the lab as a PhD student following her rotation with us. She will investigate dynamic cell fate processes through the development of new methods and models for single-cell data.
This week Megan received an honorable mention for her application to the NSF GRFP award program; a great accomplishment. Her research project proposes new models that can explain cell fate decisions through single-cell communication. Congratulations, Megan!
Adam visited the Huck Institute at Penn State this week to give a talk at the Genomics Lecture Series. He spoke about methods to infer transcriptional networks and stem cell dynamics from single-cell genomics.
Gina Yang has won an undergraduate research fellowship to support her honors thesis work in our lab. She is studying cell-cell communication networks in colorectal cancer. Congratulations, Gina!