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On January 27th, members of DBMI celebrated Peter’s promotion to tenure as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He has been a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics and has been a great mentor to many. For the full story and pictures, read the news article featured on the...

A belated congratulations to the former lab members Alice Lee and Lixing Yang, who have left to start their own laboratories in January! Alice has gone on to the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and will be appointed as an asssistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Lixing...

The lab has quickly grown over the past few months with the addition of several new members. In September, Geoff joined us from Mario de Bono’s lab in Cambridge (UK). In October, Anna joined us as the project coordinator after working as a coordinating paralegal at Fragomen Worldwide. In January, Giorgio...

In January, some members of the lab enjoyed a fun day trip to the Gunstock Mountain Resort. It was a beautiful day for skiing and snowboarding! Below are some pictures from the trip:

Pictured (left to right): Alice Lee, Isidro Cortes, Geoff Nelson, Daniel Kwon, Craig Bohrson,...

We have had several new people joining the lab in the past few months. In February, Dhawal joined us from Peter Becker’s lab in Munich and Su joined us from Shirley Liu’s lab at Tongji University/Dana-Farber. In April, Tiziana joined us from the University of Padova in Italy; Vince joined us...

Isidro Cortes and Max Sherman joined the lab in January. Isidro comes from Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he applied machine learning methods to modeling of biochemical compounds. Max comes after finishing his master’s degree in statistics at the University of Cambridge and a brief stint in NYC. Also, a belated...

Soo’s work with the Hochedlinger laboratory at MGH on this question is published in Nature Biotechnology. A press release from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Welcome to the new Park Lab website, powered by OpenScholar. Peter is sorry to see the 90s-look, no-frills pages go away, but we like the ability to annotate the papers for easier searching!

Congrats to Semin, Soo, Joe, Alice, and our friends in the Walsh lab! We are delighted that this paper made the cover! Here is the accompanying Perspective in Science: A tree of the human brain.

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HMS News: A Nature History of Neurons

The Atlantic: The Surprising...

Congrats for Francesco! It took a long time, but this paper has finally come out. An accompanying review features a section on how to use genomics to evaluate potency and provenance of pluripotent stem cells by Francesco and Peter, as well as analysis by Ruibin. (image from Science News).

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