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Park lab went on its annual hiking trip over the long weekend and witnessed some beautiful fall views.

Welcome Liz and Zofia! Park lab recently welcomed two new Associate Compuational Biologists, Liz Imhoff and Zofia Dudek. Liz completed a master’s degree in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics from Harvard T.H. Chan in 2025 after which she worked in the Leshchiner Lab at Boston University, analyzing cancer genomics data from...

After nearly four years in the Park Lab, Julia returns to Germany to start a new adventure. Park lab will miss her hardwork, excitement, and ability to bring the whole team together. Farewell Julia!

As the website updater today I am posting about my own farewell! Park lab gathered together to send me off after four years with the team. It is a very bittersweet feeling and I already miss the team so much. Wishing all of Park lab the best of luck!

Park lab is excited to welcome BIG PhD student Daniel Feng to the team! Daniel graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. As an undergraduate, he researched computational cancer phylogenetics, network clustering, and the probabilistic modelling of errors in microsatellite duplex sequencing....

The runners of Park Lab took on a 5k together (on quite a hot day)! New lab outing tradition?

With sadness but excitement for their futures, we said farewell to Dominik as he begins his own lab and a faculty position at Beth Israel Deaconess, and to Dominika, Joseph, and Michail who are starting their PhDs at Boston University, Tri-I, and Harvard (BIG) respectively. They will all be greatly missed...

We said farewell to Jan as he wraps up his work in Park Lab and will soon be graduating from university. Park Lab is excited to send Jan off to Cambridge next year to get his Master’s Degree.

Cait Harrigan joined Park Lab in April as our newest postdoc. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto with thesis work on modelling DNA repair deficiencies in cancer with mutational signatures and scaling probabilistic methods to large cohorts. Welcome Cait!

Park Lab said goodbye to Michele on his last day with the team. He was a Bioinformatics Scientist in the lab for more than seven years! We all wish him the best of luck back at home in Italy.