Alice received a Child Health Research Award from the Charles H. Hood Foundation for her work on splicing defects caused by transposon insertions in genetic diseases.
Thaise is a visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil studying Thyroid cancer genomes. She will stay with us until the end of June 2019. Welcome Thaise!
Dachan is a visiting medical school student from Yonsei university college of Medicine in South Korea and interested in uncovering the molecular mechanism of neurological disease using a genomic approach. He will be in the Lee lab till the end of March 2019.
Brian Wee, our beloved high school intern (Summer 2018) from Colorado, just received a letter of admission to Harvard college. Many congratulations to Brian! We all know that you will do great there and hope we will see you more often in Boston!
Alice was invited to a transposon workshop on "Transposable Elements at the Crossroad of Health and Disease" to be held in Barbados in January, 2019. A 90-min informal session for each speaker on the Caribbean beach is the norm, the organizers say!
The Lee lab took a one-day excursion to enjoy the beautiful New England fall foliage. Our eager guest hiker, Lixing Yang, from Chicago, intimidated us into making an ambitious plan to suffer through the challenging Franconian Ridge Loop trail , and then by some twist of fate, missed his flight and was unable to grace us with his presence. So, we reverted to our less challenging but wholly enjoyable walk around Flume Gorge and then jumped on a round-way cable car ride to the top of Mount Cannon. Let’s keep in shape so that if Lixing...
Alice was invited to a one-day workshop entitled "Think Tank on Understanding Sequence-Specific Mutations on Cancer" held at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), speaking on human retrotransposons and cancer immunity with other prominent scientists in the field.... Read more about Retrotransposons and Cancer Immunity talk at MSKCC
Dr. Boxun Zhao joined the Lee laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in August, 2018. He obtained his PhD in Genetics from Peking Union Medical College and Tsinghua University. He studied somatic retrotransposon insertions in neurological disorders through the development of novel experimental assays and bioinformatic sequencing analyses during his PhD studies. Welcome, Boxun (he goes by [Bo])!
