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Our lab has grown quite big this past year! We had a wonderful time gathering with friends, families, and old faces. We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

Last week, the Park Lab enjoyed an outing to the Boston Harbor Cruise Spectable Island Clambake! Family members were also invited to experience the food and amazing skyline.

The Park lab has been funded by Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge, which provides £20M over 5 years to a team to work on toughest problems in cancer research. Our team, led by our long-time collaborator Steve Elledge, includes a number of investigators from US/UK/Netherlands. We will attempt to understand why...

Members of the DCIC (Data Coordination and Integration Center) traveled to San Diego for the Annual Meeting of the 4D Nucleome project. From the HMS group were curators Andy, Koray, Sarah, and Luisa; postdoctoral fellows Su Wang and Hu Jin; and co-leaders Burak and Peter. Peter gave a talk outlining the...

In the last few months, we had additional members joining our team! We’d like to welcome Hu Jin, Shannon Ehmsen, and Luisa Mercado!

Hu is a postdoc who joined us back in July. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In the park lab, he is...

We are excited to announce the addition of new members to our lab during the past couple of months.

A belated welcome to our newest Postdoc, Jinkuk Kim who joined us back in October of 2017. Jinkuk earned his PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics at MIT and worked as...

Park lab wishes everyone a happy holiday season and a happy new year!

Current members (Anna, Burak, Craig, Isidro, Jennifer, Joe–we missed you!)

With alumni and families/significant others…

Congratulations to Craig Bohrson, Alison Barton, and Daniel Kwon, three of the six co-lead authors of a recently published paper in Science, discussing the increased accumulation of mutations in neurons as people age. The paper was the result of a collaborative effort with the Walsh Lab of Boston Children’s Hospital. The...

Dr. Peter Park and Dr. Doga Gulhan were featured in an article in the Harvard Medicine Magazine last month, which describes their current work on the computational analysis of genomics data of cancer patients.

You can read the article here.

On October 13th, members of the Park lab went on the annual lab hiking trip. This year, they hiked the Welch and Dickey loop trail of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. This was the first New Englad hiking experience for many of our fellows who’ve come from abroad!