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Alice gave a talk on retrotransposons in human health and disease at Ionis pharmaceuticals in San Diego. Ionis developed an antisense drug, SPINRAZA, for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

The Lee lab has expanded quite a bit over the last few months having new members joining our team. We'd like to welcome Elain, Jenny, and Yue! We are excited that their onboarding will help improve the gender diversity of the lab. Elain is pursuing her PhD in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences...

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 September 30 through October 02, 2020. It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with other...

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Our lab was filled with great news this month as Lucy Jung was awarded a BCH OFD (Office of Faculty Development) fellowship! Congratulations, Lucy!

Rebeca's paper on transposons insertions in autism spectrum disorder was accepted by Mobile DNA. Congratulations to Rebeca and Jason!

Lan was awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, for her research proposal on somatic mutations in human cardiomyocytes. Congrats Lan!

Boxun was awarded the Keystone Symposia Future of Science Scholarship for the Keystone meeting on Transposable Elements at the Crossroads of Evolution, Health, and Disease. Congrats, Boxun!

Danielle and Fatima successfully passed their preliminary qualifying exams (PQEs)! Congratulations to our lab's newest PhD candidates!