March 12, 2025
Justin is officially the lab's newest PhD student - welcome!
Lab News
November 12, 2024
Kira's paper is out! By comparing testis transcriptomes of opossum and mouse, we found hundreds of genes selected for high expression during spermatogenesis in the placental mammal lineage, potentially important for understanding human fertility.
In Developmental Cell (PMC link coming soon)
October 22, 2024
It's Yongyan's last day - we'll miss you!
August 1, 2024
Farewell lunch for summer undergraduates Riya and Peyton + Amgen scholars symposium. Peyton presented an excellent talk and poster on evolution of bivalency. We're very proud!
July 3, 2024
Some pre-July 4th relaxation at the lab retreat
June 13, 2024
Goodbye Caiyun! Good luck in St. Louis - we will miss you!
December 27, 2023
Caiyun Liao's paper on human-specific epigenomic states in spermatogenesis is out in Computational & Structural Biology Journal! See it here.
October 20, 2023
Ben Walters' article on the regulation of KDM6A in spermatogenesis and implications for epigenetic inheritance is online today in Biology of Reproduction. Read it here. Congrats Ben!
June 15, 2023
Aushaq Malla's second paper is out today showing that DOT1L selectively drives production of major satellite repeat transcripts, thus indirectly sustaining heterochromatin via its function as a transcriptional activator. See the exciting story here.