Recent News

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!

May 2, 2020

We welcome Jonatan Hervoso to our lab!

May 1, 2020

While sheltering at home, our lab members have been hard-at-work! Our manuscript “Allele-specific alternative splicing in human tissues” is now on BioRxiv. Congratulations Kofi, Jae, Esther, Yiwei, Christina, Boon, Ei-Wen!

March 1, 2020

We welcome Carlos Gonzalez-Figueroa to our lab!

February 3, 2020

Our manuscript “Extracellular microRNA 3′ end modification across diverse body fluids” is now on BioRxiv. Congratulations Kiku and Jae!

February 2, 2020

Our manuscript “Differential RNA editing between epithelial and mesenchymal tumors impacts mRNA abundance in immune response pathways” is now on BioRxiv. This work was spearheaded by two graduate students, Tracey Chan and Ting Fu, and in collaboration with Dr. Chonghui Cheng at Baylor College of Medicine!

February 1, 2020

Kiku and I are glad to have contributed to this interesting study by Dr. Feng Guo’s lab: “Fe(III) heme sets an activation threshold for processing distinct groups of pri-miRNAs in mammalian cells“.

January 1, 2020

Our paper describing the new statistical methods, named REDITs, to analyze differential RNA editing is published at Bioinformatics!  Congratulations, Stephen!

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