We said goodbye to Lauren, a Project Manger in the Chung Lab, on Friday as she moves onto the private sector and continues growing in her career. Best of Luck Lauren!!!!
Srinivasa Pujari Presents at Picower 20th anniversary
One of our graduate students, Srinivasa Pujari, was able to present a poster at the Picower 20th Anniversary Symposium. His poster title was “Vascularization of cerebral organoids using 3D printed synthetic structures” and even Tim the beaver came by to see it with some of our lab members!
Congratulations to Dr Xin Jin for starting NextGen Cancer Ressearch Laboratory at Westlake University, China
Dr Jin was recently appointed as the Principal Investigator of the NexGen Research Laboratory in the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China. We wish him the best and look forward to seeing the discoveries his lab will uncover!
Happy Retirement Lee Kamentsky
We recently said goodbye to Lee Kamentsky, who had spent the last few years providing key support to our lab! We took some time to go for a walk in the great outdoors, and had time to thank him with a plaque and some other gifts. Have a wonderful retirement Lee and thank you for choosing the Chung Lab!
Chung Lab & CDI Labs Collaboration
Over the last few years, our lab has been working with CDI Labs in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico to validate the specificity of monoclonal antibodies produced from their company in different tissues. Ultimately, we will be using this information to be part of a antibody library that will allow the research community to interrogate brain structure and function, including complex intercellular relationships at multiple scales. This past week, a few members of our lab paid a visit to our partners at CDI Labs.
Congratulations to Minyoung Kim and Young Gyun Park as co-First authors, as well as Nick DiNapoli, Xinyi Gu, and Lee Kamentsky
This past week, some lab members saw the fruition of years of research and work with the publication of their paper, “Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions” in Nature Communications. Further, two of the lab members, Minyoung Kim and Young Gyun Park were counted as co-first authors! Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this paper, and keep up the great work.
Welcome Lunch for Slayton Marx
We welcomed Slayton this past week to our lab as our newest Research Software Engineer. Slayton will be helping to revamp our servers to drastically improve the efficiency of our computational analysis. In addition to this, Slayton will be working in our lab’s computations team and will be instrumental to helping our researchers get the needed information and data for all of our exciting research.
Welcome Lunch for Mira and Kit
We welcomed Mira and Kit last month to the Chung Lab as they joined our ever growing lab. Kit will be joining us as a new Post-doc and Mira will be joining us as a new Research Software Engineer. Both will be instrumental to churning out new and exciting research. Welcome to the Lab Mira and Kit!
Welcome lunch for Victor!
Victor is a technical associate recently joined Chung lab. Welcome Victor!
SCOUT is featured on MIT News!
SCOUT, an unbiased high-throughput analysis pipeline that improves utility of “minibrains” for understanding development and diseases such as Zika infection, is featured on MIT News. Congratulations!