News + Updates

Adam Voshall, a postdoctoral fellow, joined the lab. He drove all the way from Lincoln, Nebraska to Boson with his wife and two big dogs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Welcome, Adam!

Eduardo's abstract on somatic copy number variants in schizophrenia  was selected for an oral presentation at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics. Congratulations, Eduardo!

August was selected as a semifinalist for the 2020 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research for the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics...

Congratulations to August and Pengpeng! https://www.pnas.org/content/117/25/13886

Boxun was awarded a two-year Manton Center Rare Disease Research Fellowship. Congratulations to Boxun!

Jun and Sejong safely landed in Boston on the same day and started a 2-week self quanranteen. Welcome, Jun and Sejong!

Alice will give an invited talk at the 2020 Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Transposable Elements, which will be held from October 6 to October 10, 2020 in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in...

Alice was invited to the 4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium on “Integrating transposon and virus identification into evolution and disease research,"  which will be held at SciLifeLab Uppsala from...

Congratulations to Junho, Boxun, and August! Our rebuttal to a recent Nature paper that reported extensive somatic APP recombination/retrotransposition in neurons of aging and Alzheimer's brains was...

Alice was invited to the 4th International Brainstorm Symposium—The Expanding Role of Repetitive Sequences in Disease—hosted by the University of Florida Center for NeuroGenetics. Alice gave a talk on...