April 2022
Congrats to our talented undergrads Maximo Kesselhaut and Sourav Roy for being awarded Yale undergraduate summer research fellowships!
April 2022
Our lab is growing! Welcome to our new graduate student Wenyi Ran from the Plant Molecular Biology track.
March 2022
Congrats to Yi-Chun, JD and all the other members of our lab for their work on our new paper published in Science on the role of the H3.1 variant during replication! Thanks to our collaborators at the University of Ottawa, the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and Northwestern University. If you want to see a quick summary of the work, please see this Twitter thread by postdoc Geoffrey Thomson in the lab!
December 2021
Congratulations to Emma for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
June 2021
First month in the lab for undergraduate student Maximo Kesselhaut. Welcome to the lab Maximo!
December 2020
Our new manuscript has been accepted at The Plant Cell! Please go check it out: Dong, J., LeBlanc, C. , Poulet, A. et al, The Plant Cell.
November 2020
Congrats to Wenxin for passing her prospectus exam!
March 2020
Wenxin Yuan joins the lab. Welcome aboard Wenxin!
November 2019
Congratulations to Yi-Chun for passing his qualifying exam!
September 2019
Valentin Joly joins the lab. Welcome, Valentin!
July 2019
Geoffrey Thomson joins the lab. Welcome, Geoffrey!
June 2019
Our manuscript “Increased efficiency of targeted mutagenesis by CRISPR/Cas9 in plants using heat stress” was awarded the Plant Journal’s Top Downloaded Article 2017-2018 award for being a top 20 most read paper in The Plant Journal.
May 2019
Mia Tsang joins the lab. Welcome, Mia!
Jie Dong joins the lab. Welcome, JD!
Benoit Mermaz joins the lab. Welcome Ben!
April 2019
Congratulations to Josefina for winning an award for best undergraduate presenter at the Northeastern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists meeting.
March 2019
Our manuscript “Increased efficiency of targeted mutagenesis by CRISPR/Cas9 in plants using heat stress” was awarded First Prize for Outstanding Technical Advance by the Plant Journal.
Yi-Chun Huang joins the lab. Welcome, Yi-Chun!
Axel Poulet joins the lab. Welcome, Axel!
December 2018
Congratulations to Lauren for passing her qualifying exam!
September 2018
Our lab was awarded a grant from the Citrus Research Board of California to work on gene targeting in Citrus!
July 2018
Our work on chromatin and genome stability has been funded by a NIH R35 grant!
April 2018
Congratulations to Emma who was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award.
March 2018
Lauren Dickinson joins our lab. Welcome Lauren!
February 2018
Congratulations to Josefina who was awarded the Mellon Mays Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship.
January 2018
Our manuscript “Increased efficiency of targeted mutagenesis by CRISPR/Cas9 in plants using heat stress” was accepted in The Plant Journal.
December 2017
Our manuscript “Rapid and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 editing in Citrus using the YAO promoter” was accepted in Plant Cell Reports.
November 2017
Congratulations to Emma for passing her qualifying exam!
September 2017
Awarded a grant (in collaboration with Vivian Irish at Yale) from the Citrus Research Board of California to work on genome editing in Citrus.
March 2017
Emma Corcoran joins the lab. Welcome, Emma!
January 2017
Josefina Mendez joins the lab. Welcome, Josefina!
September 2016
Awarded a grant (in collaboration with Vivian Irish at Yale) from the Citrus Research Board of California to work on genome editing in Citrus.
January 2016
Congratulations to Yamile on being accepted to the STARS II program.