News

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.

News coverage:

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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Dan has successfully defended his thesis titled "The Dissection of VEGFA Stimulus-Responsive Regulatory and Transcriptional Changes in Angiogenesis". Congratulations Doctor Day!

Not a bad week for the Park lab: we had papers in Nature, Nature Methods, and Nature Communications, all in the same week! Congratulations to the entire chromatin team, especially to the co-first authors Joshua and Lucy, who have worked tiresslessly over the years to pull this together.

We welcome Scott Kallgren, our new postdoctoral fellow joining us from Columbia University.

This time, congratulations to Francesco, Andrew! Their papers came out (online) on the same day in Cell Reports and Cell. These are results of collaborations with the Mitzi Kuroda and Steve Elledge labs.

Congratulations to Lixing and Francesco! Their papers came out on the same day in Cell and Cell Stem Cell.

A “Technical comment” in Science by Ferrari & Jung et al, points out a problem with a Science article.

Congratulations to Joshua Ho, who will begin his position as a faculty member at the Victor Chang Research Institute back at home in Sydney in the fall.