2018

December

  • Dr. Gregory became the first Stem Cell Biology Endowed Chair for Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics.

October

  • Mehdi was awarded a Manton Center Fellowship with Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research. Congratulations Mehdi!
  • Robinson completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He is now a Scientist at Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics in Watertown, MA.

September

  • Junho and Shuibin’s manuscript titled ‘mRNA circularization by METTL3-eIF3h enhances translation and promotes oncogenesis’ was published in Nature.

August

  • Jia Cui, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Jia earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  • Peng completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us and moved back to China. Peng is Assistant Professor in the College of Life Sciences at Peking University, and Principal Investigator in Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences.

July

  • Shuibin's manuscript titled ‘Mettl1/Wdr4-Mediated m7G tRNA Methylome Is Required for Normal mRNA Translation and Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation’ was published in Molecular Cell.

June

  • Lauren Gunasti has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Williams College majoring in Chemistry.
  • Amy Jia has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

May

  • Esteban Orellana, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Esteban earned his PhD in Biological Sciences from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
  • Peng's manuscript entitled ‘An Intermediate Pluripotent State Controlled by MicroRNAs Is Required for the Naive-to-Primed Stem Cell Transition’ was published in Cell Stem Cell.
  • Shuibin completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He moved back to China to start his own lab at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Shuibin serves as Principal Investigator/Professor in the Center for Translational Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital.