Lab news
2026
June 2026- Belén was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship!!! Huge congratulations on this achievement Belén!
June 2026- Roberto’s preprint was selected as a QED top 1% preprint for 2025!
June 2026- Fardin was selected to attend the UCSC Cryo-EM workshop!
June 2026- Roberto and Abdallah presented their work at the Machines on Genes Meeting in Crete!
June 2026- Alexandra and Roberto present beautiful flash talks at the building 68 retreat in Salem, MA.
June 2026- J. Rafael and Awan join us for the summer!! J. Rafael is an MSRP student visiting from DePauw University and Awan is returning to the lab before starting his undergraduate studies.
May 2026- Roberto’s next manuscript describing ELOF1 as a core component of the promoter proximal pausing complex has been posted to bioRxiv. Another amazing feat from Roberto and his GATO-seq approach!
May 2026- Congratulations to Awan! He is going to Cornell in August to start his bachelors degree. We are so proud!
March 2026- Big congratulations to Abdallah on successfully defending his beautiful PhD work! Stay tuned for his next manuscript!
February 2026- Awan attended the AAAS meeting in Phoenix and presented a poster. Proud of all of your achievements Awan!
February 2026- Our new cell-free genomics method to examine transcription elongation “GATO-seq” is available on bioRxiv. Congratulations to Roberto on making this dream a reality!
February 2026- Our work on CTCF and chromatin organization is now available on bioRxiv. Congratulations to lab alumni Bonnie and Laura!!!
January 2026- Big congratulations to TJ! His collaborative work with the lab of Martin Eilers on MYC-RNA binding is finally published!
2025
December 2025-Laura’s collaborative work with the Ha lab on CTCF dynamics has been posted to bioRxiv!
October 2025- Awan presented his summer internship work at the Massachusetts Junior Academy of Science meeting. He did an awesome job and was named one of the winners. He will present his work at the national meeting in February. We are so proud of you, Awan! Well deserved!
August 2025-We said goodbye to Luca and Marieke. Both completed Masters internships with us and did fantastic work. We will miss you a lot and wish you all the best with your continued studies!
August 2025-Abdallah gave an excellent presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription Meeting. Congrats Abdallah!
August 2025- We said goodbye to Awan and Hanno. Awan goes back to high school and Hanno is returning to Germany. We will miss you both!
Awan with some of the lab after presenting his summer research work.
August 2025- Awan gave a beautiful presentation about his work in the lab this summer. Congratulations Awan!
August 2025- Welcome Belén! We are excited to have you join us! Belén is a postdoctoral associate, who recently completed her PhD at the IMP in Vienna.
July 2025-We had a great lab hike in the blue hills! Thanks to Alexandra and TJ for coordinating!
July 2025- Welcome Fardin! Fardin is a new postdoctoral associate who recently graduated from Buffalo University. So happy to have you join us!
July 2025- Seychelle has been promoted to associate professor. Thank you to everyone in the lab past and present who made this possible!!
June 2025- Welcome to Awan Awan! Awan is a rising high school senior and is joining us this summer as an intern.
June 2025- TJ gave a wonderful presentation at the Building 68 retreat!
May 2025- We said goodbye to Laura. Laura is starting a new position as a field scientist for Lunaphore. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
May 2025- Congratulations to Praise, a former MSRP student from the lab. Praise is valedictorian for UMBC class of 2025. Praise will be starting his PhD in September. We could not be prouder of you!!
March 2025- TJ presented his work at the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Crazy Eight Summit. Great job TJ!
March 2025- Welcome to Angelos! Angelos is a postdoctoral associate who recently graduated from McGill. Excited to have you join the team!
March 2025- Alexandra presented her great work at the CRUK Grand Challenges Symposium. She did an excellent job!
March 2025- Welcome to Marieke! Marieke is a visiting Masters student and will be working with Abdallah!
January 2025-Congratulations to Abdallah and Nika for both publishing their first, first author publications this month. Read their papers here: MORC2 and AGO2
2024
October 2024- Congratulations to Bonnie on defending her PhD work and starting a new job at Remix!
September 2024- Congratulations to Bonnie and Annette on their beautiful NELF review. You can read it here.
August 2024-Congratulations to Nika on her new role as a Science Writer at Flywheel. We will miss you and best of luck in your new position!
August 2024- The lab went to a historic Red Sox game.
August 2024- Welcome to Hanno Brach! Hanno joins our KOODAC team as a technical associate.
August 2024- Congratulations to Abdallah! His work with the Bartel lab on Ago2 was posted to bioRxiv.
August 2024- Thank you to Praise Lasekan for being part of the lab as an MSRP student over the summer. Praise presented his work at the MSRP poster session.
June 2024- Welcome to Alexandra D’Ordine! Alexandra joins our KOODAC team as a staff scientist.
May 2024- Congratulations Nika on officially graduating-first PhD out of the lab!
May 2024- Congratulations to TJ, Katha, and Annika for their work on MYCN and RNA being published!
May 2024- Congratulations to Annette on her co-author Neuron paper!
March 2024- Nika defended her PhD to a packed room. Congrats on presenting your beautiful work!
March 2024- We thank Cancer Grand Challenges for funding our work as part of team KOODAC.
February 2024- Bonnie’s paper on distinct NELF conformations is online at Molecular Cell. Congratulations Bonnie on a beautiful story!
January 2024- Bonnie’s paper is accepted for publication
2023
November 2023- Mohammed Hannan joins the lab as our new lab manager! Welcome Mohammed!
October 2023- Bonnie presents her latest work at the New England Cryo-EM symposium.
October 2023- Bonnie gives a great presentation at Supergroup on her latest results!
September 2023- The lab is officially an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Lab. Thank you HHMI!
August 2023- Nika presents her work at the Penn State Chromatin and Transcription Meeting.
June 2023- Abdallah Mohamed gives a fantastic presentation at the Building 68 retreat.
June 2023- Theresa Hauck defends her Masters Thesis. Congrats Theresa!
May 2023- Annette Diao passes her prelim. Well done, Annette!
April 2023-Annette Diao is awarded the presitigous NSERC pre-doctoral fellowship. Congrats Annette!
April 2023- Nika Fendler is named a MIT Graduate Woman of Excellence. Congrats Nika!
April 2023- Katharina Schneider joins the lab for an internship. Welcome Katha!
February 2023- Roberto presents his latest results at Supergroup.
February 2023- Annika Brem joins the lab for her Masters Thesis. Welcome Annika!