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Simona received an abstract and travel award for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) 2020 conference. She will be giving an oral presentation on her rotation work on “Effects of Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure on Early Behavior and Development”, with Elena. Congrats, Simona!

Scott, a WUSTL ENDURE Scholar who joined us in 2019, is leaving us to go to Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine. He’ll be starting a (highly competitive) post-bac fellowship designed to prepare prospective MD/PhD candidates. We’re sad to see you go, Scott, but excited to see what great things you do next!

A new preprint “TRAP-based allelic translation efficiency imbalance analysis to identify genetic regulation of ribosome occupancy in specific cell types in vivo” by Yating and Tony is out on bioRxiv. The preprint asks how naturally occurring genetic variants contribute to post-transcriptional regulation, and focuses on examination of genetic regulation of ribosome occupancy resulting in translation […]

We’re welcoming a new graduate MD/PhD student, Simona Sarafinovska, to the lab. Simona just completed her pre-clinical MD training, and is beginning her PhD in the Neurosciences progam. She will be working with our new tool, Calling Cards, to investigate the transcriptional events that underly social learning and social motivation. Simona’s interested in how genetics […]

Tomás was awarded the registration and oral presentation scholarship for the 2020 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) virtual conference. Tomás will be presenting on “A Massively Parallel Reporter Assay to Investigate the Contribution of Noncoding Variation in Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Congratulations, Tomás!