2022
March
Harshi get an Honorable mention for her NSF-GRFP application – Congrats!
February
Coral’s paper is published in Stem cell reports
2021
May
Ellen graduates and moves on to a post baccalaureate position at the NIH. Farewell, we will miss you
Amulya is awarded a Hilldale undergraduate fellowship and a UW- Genetics and Genomics undergraduate fellowship. Congratulations
2020
December
Harshini Cormaty from the Genetics program joins the lab. Welcome
October
Zafirah’s final PhD paper on HP1γ regulates H3K36 methylation and pluripotency in embryonic stem cells is accepted and online at Nucleic Acids Research https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/48/22/12660/6006202
July
Zafirah moves on to perform postdoctoral research in Kristin Baldwin’s lab at Columbia University. Good luck Zafirah, we will miss you.
April
Collaborative paper with the Engin lab on dedifferentiation in Type I diabetes with contribution from Stefan is published in Cell Metabolism
March
Zafirah defends her thesis. Congrats Dr. Zaidan! (see pictures- we had a chocolate fountain!)
Ellen is awarded the Genetics and Genomics distinguished undergraduate fellowship to pursue research in our lab. Congrats Ellen!
2019
November
Ellen Morgan (mentor Caleb) joins the lab. Welcome Ellen.
October
Khoa and Caleb’s paper on the link between removing two repressive marks- H3K9 methylation and DNA methylation is online at the EMBO Journal
Check it out – https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2019101681
September
Stefan was awarded second place at the poster session of the Stem Cell Symposium. Congrats!
May
Farewell to undergraduates Niki, Edwin and Simone!
Welcome undergraduates Brenton Halverson from the Wiscience program ( mentor Stefan) and Hailey Thurston from the SURF program ( mentor Caleb)
Published in UW-Madison News: UW Madison Research Team Finds New Ways to Generate Stem Cells More Efficiently
Our paper on single cell trancriptomics of reprogramming in the new high efficiency cocktail of ascorbic acid, Dot1L inhibition and 2i is published, great synergy from Khoa, Stefan and Zafirah!
Many thanks to Mike Ducat and Alasdair Reid from BioRad/Illumina for the ddSeq platform on which these experiments were conducted
April
Khoa and Caleb’s review on alpha-ketoglutarate dependent enzymes in pluripotency is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
March
Coral is awarded the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center postdoctoral fellowship
January
Welcome to undergraduate Amulya Suresh ( mentor Zafirah)
2018
October
Coral and our undergraduate team of Edwin, Niki and Simone presented stem cell differentiation to beating heart cells at the Wisconsin Science Festival 2018. Zafirah participated in a display on precision medicine.
August
Zafirah is awarded the Schlimgen award from the Genetics Department for Outstanding Scholarship in Graduate Studies
Khoa graduates and moves on to a postdoctoral position in Shelley Berger’s lab at University of Pennsylvania
June
Stefan is awarded a spot on the Genome Sciences Training Program
April
Edwin, Niki and Simone present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Zafirah is awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship
Khoa ties for best poster at the 14th Annual Signal Transduction meeting
March
Zafirah places third in the Bioethics Cartoon Competition
January
Zafirah’s paper on the role of heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) proteins in reprogramming is published in Stem Cell Reports
Stefan Pietrzak from the Cell and Molecular Biology Program joins the lab
2017
September
Coral presents at the Cold Spring Harbor conference on Stem Cell Biology
Collaborative paper with the Lloyd Smith group is published in the Journal for Proteome Research
July
Khoa presents at the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics
June
Dan is moving on to a Masters in Biomedical Eng at the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
May
Cesar and Jaime graduate and will both be taking a gap year before attending Medical School
April
Collaborative paper with the Roy group describing a new computational method C-MINT, for comparing chromatin modification data across cell types is published in Genome Research
February
Zafirah is awarded a one year predoctoral fellowship from the UW- Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center
January
Caleb Dillingham from the Cell and Molecular Pathology program joins the lab
2016
December
Cesar Martinez featured in L&S article about Undergraduate Research Scholars program
August
Amelie Albrecht from the Univ. of Regensburg, Germany joins the lab for a 3-month internship through the DAAD program (mentor –Coral)
June
Nicole Adrian freshman in Evolutionary Biology joins the lab through the Summer undergraduate research fellowship administered by the Wiscr and SCRMC (mentor –Khoa)
Khoa and Zafirah present posters at the Cell Symposia on Transcriptional Regulation in Development and Disease
May
Michael Diny graduates and moves on to Dental school at Marquette University
April
Cesar and Jaime are both awarded Hilldale undergraduate research fellowships
Cesar presents at the 13th Annual Posters in the Rotunda event at the state Capitol an interaction with state legislators. Cesar is one of only six students (projects) to be selected to represent UW-Madison.
February
Steve and Zach’s paper on the surprisingly non-canoncial reprogramming path taken by Neural Stem cells, where Nanog expressing colonies appear before E-cadherin is published online at Stem Cell Reports
Rupa receives a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award
January
Coral Wille joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar
2015
October
Collaborative paper with the Roy group on predicting enhancer promoter interactions is published in Nucleic acids research
September
Dan Devine and Kolin Walker join the lab as associate research specialists
May
Michael Zaiken and Paul graduate. Michael Zaiken will attend graduate school in Developmental Biology at the Univ. of Minnesota
July
Lab receives funding from the NIH
May
Rupa receives Kimmel scholar award from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Research foundation
June
Jaime Brown sophomore in Biochemistry joins the lab through the Summer undergraduate research fellowship administered by the Wiscr and SCRMC (mentor –Zafirah)
April
Michael Diny is awarded a Hilldale undergraduate research fellowship
March
Khoa receives a best oral presentation award for his talk at the 12th Annual Signal Transduction Research Training Symposium at UW-Madison
Khoa’s paper is chosen as one of the top epigenetic papers of the month by abcam.com
February
Khoa’s paper on the rewiring of the pluripotency network is online at Nature Communications
January
Cesar Martinez sophomore in Neurobiology and French joins the lab (mentor- Zafirah)
2014
April
Khoa receives a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
February
Rupa is awarded a Basil O’ Connor starter scholar grant from the March of Dimes foundation
Michael Zaiken junior in Biochemistry (mentor Zach) and Paul Ehrlich junior in Molecular Biology and Neurobiology (mentor Steve) join the lab for undergraduate research
January
Steve is awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the UW-SCRMC
2013
December
Nur Zafirah Zaidan from the Genetics program joins the lab for a Phd
October
Paper identifying acetylation on Serine -10 of histone H3 is published in Epigenetics
September
Khoa wins Gregory F. Daniels Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Fall UW- Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine conference
August
Helena Randle, sophomore in Biology (mentored by Steve) and Michael Diny, sophomore in Biology and Spanish (mentored by Khoa) join the lab.
July
Our paper describing the remarkable global change in histone modifications during reprogramming is published in Nature Cell Biology
Zach Olufs joins the lab as an associate research specialist
June
Steve and Rupa publish a review on the reprogramming process in Current Pathobiology reports
Di moves on to graduate school at the Univ. of Mass at Amherst
May
Rupa receives a Shaw Scientist award from the Greater Milwaukee foundation
April
Steve and Rupa publish a preview in Cell Stem Cell on the relationship between the Tet DNA hydroxymethylating enzymes and pluripotency
2012
December
Khoa Tran from the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology program joins the lab as a PhD student
August
Steven Jackson joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher
May
Di Huang joins the lab as an Assistant Research Specialist