News and Events

Oct 2009: We received research grants from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the FSH Society.

Oct 2009: We received a junior faculty award from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation.

Mar 2009: We received a Department of Internal Medicine 2009 pilot grant on clinical and translational research.

Mar 2009: Our paper "Large-scale analysis of exonized mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs) in primate genomes" is accepted by Human Molecular Genetics.

Dec 2008: Congratulations to Lan Lin for winning an ASBMB (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Postdoctoral Travel Fellowship!

Nov 2008: We received a research grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute on "Statistical Analysis of Exon Arrays" (R01-HG004634, to Wing Hung Wong and Yi Xing) .

Oct 2008: Seiko Sato joins the lab as a technician. Seiko received her BS in Biology from Cornell University.

Sept 2008: Congratulations to Anne Tye, who won an ICRU (Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates) Scholar Assistant Award!

Jan 2008: Our Genes and Development 2007 article (Genes Dev. 21, 2963-2975) is highlighted by Cell Leading Edge.

Jan 2008: book chapter on alternative splicing in the book of "Alternative Splicing in the Postgenomic Era", Benjamin Blencowe and Brenton Graveley eds. [order book ]

Dec 2007: we received a research grant from the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

Oct 2007: a new paper "Global analysis of alternative splicing differences between humans and chimpanzess" is accepted by Genes and Development. [news report]

NSF-IMA Workshop: RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, 10/29/2007-11/02/2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA