Zach has left us to go to work for BioAge labs, we wish Zach all the luck in his new position. And Fiona’s second summer in the lab has drawn to a close as well, good luck Fiona in the upcoming academic year. But it’s not all departures; Andrew Earl, a Harvard BBS graduate student, began his rotation on Monday. Andrew will be characterizing a novel methyltransferase in C. elegans. Welcome Andrew!

Thank you to the National Institute of Health and the National Human Genome Research Institute for funding our research!

Ken Takashima was just awarded a JSPS fellowship for the work that he will be doing in our lab studying the molecular mechanisms of imprinting establishment. Congratulations Ken! Perry Bowers is an Administrative Associate working with our lab as well as the lab of Yang Shi. Welcome Perry!

Fiona MacWhinnie, a University of Massachusetts Amherst undergrad, has come back for another summer in the lab. Welcome back Fiona!