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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, Burak Alver, Peter Park,...

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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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.