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APP gene copy number changes reflect exogenous contamination

Publication: Journal Article

Kim, Junho, Boxun Zhao, August Yue Huang, Michael B. Miller, Michael A. Lodato, Christopher A. Walsh**, and Eunjung Alice Lee**. 2020. “APP Gene Copy Number Changes Reflect Exogenous Contamination”. Nature 584: E20–E28.

Alice receives 2019 SUHF Young Investigator Award

News: September 18, 2019

Alice was selected as a 2019 SUHF Young Investigator! The Suh Kyungbae Science Foundation (SUHF) is a non-profit foundation established in 2016 and selects three to five early-stage Korean scientists through a world-wide open recruiting process every year.

Talk at international symposium on "The Expanding Role of Repetitive Sequences in Disease"

News: January 17, 2020

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 transposons in human health and disease, and enjoyed meeting many other scientists who study all...

Adam joins the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow

News: September 07, 2020

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!

Adam Voshall, PhD

Person: Postdoctoral Fellow

Adam joined the lab in September, 2020 as a postdoctoral fellow. He received a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2015. His PhD research in Heriberto Cerutti's group focused on the development of computational tools to identify small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), in...

Fatima M Gunter-Rahman

Person: PhD Student, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

Fatima joined the lab in February 2021 as a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT HST program. She graduated from MIT in 2020 with a degree in computer science and molecular biology. She is interested in understanding the role of transposons in the context of the immune system. In her free time, she enjoys...

Yilan (Elain) Wang

Person: PhD Student, Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), Current: Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital

Elain obtained her PhD in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard University in 2024. She received her Bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University, and joined the Lee lab in October 2019. She is interested in developing new methods to study the role of transposons in human brain...

Identification and Genotyping of Transposable Element Insertions from Genome Sequencing Data

Publication: Journal Article

Chu*, Chong, Boxun Zhao*, Peter Park, and Eunjung Alice Lee. 2020. “Identification and Genotyping of Transposable Element Insertions from Genome Sequencing Data”. Current Protocols in Human Genetics (review) 107(1):e102.

Welcome, new members!

News: January 13, 2020

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...

Invitation to a transposon symposium in Sweden in Fall 2020

News: March 01, 2020

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...