Recent News

July 6, 2020

Congratulations to Ting Fu for receiving the Hyde Fellowship!

July 5, 2020

Congratulations to Jonatan Hervoso for receiving funding as a Diversity Scholar!

July 4, 2020

UCLA’s 2020 Bruins-in-Genomics (BIG) Summer program wraps up this month. We are grateful to the program directors and the administrative team for stellar organizations of the first-ever remote BIG Summer! What a great achievement for the student mentees and mentors!!!  We say farewell to our trainees Bridget and Tori, and we congratulate them on receiving the Research Excellence Award.  We also congratulate Kofi for serving as a fantastic mentor to Bridget and Tori and receiving the Outstanding Mentor Award!

July 3, 2020

We welcome Dr. Zhiheng Liu to our lab!

July 2, 2020

​AUG 1, happy RNA day!

July 1, 2020

Introducing the ENCODE 3 landing page at Nature.   Enjoy reading the consortium paper and the companions!

June 2, 2020

We are delighted to have been part of the ENCODE 3 consortium (and the current ENCODE 4 consortium).  Congratulations to Giovanni, Ei-Wen and Esther for your contributions as ENCODE3 consortium members. We are grateful for the inclusion of two of our papers on the Nature landing page!

June 1, 2020

Check out  this interesting study by Dr. Yibin Wang’s group: “p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates chamber specific perinatal growth in heart” published at the Journal of Clinical Investigation. We are glad to have contributed to this work.

May 4, 2020

UCLA’s 2020 Bruins-in-Genomics (BIG) Summer program kicks off this month!  We welcome two BIG Summer students to our lab: Tori Concepcion and Bridget Phillips!

May 3, 2020

Congratulations to Carlos Gonzalez-Figueroa for receiving the Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Grant!

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