News
Yoo Jin Joo's mass spec analysis of transcription complexes revealed that the uncharacterized protein Gds1 is recruited to promoters, and biochemical and genomic experiments indicate Gds1 functions to modulate histone H4 acetylation by the NuA4 complex, particularly at ribosomal promoter genes. See our new paper in Molecular and Cellular Biology for details!
We're so proud of former PhD student Nihal Terzi Çizmecioğlu! Nihal is one of four winners of this year's L'Oreal UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science. This award supports her lab's research on how chromatin functions in stem cell differentiation. Check out this great video of Nihal in action as a professor at Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Nihal is third from the left.
We're really going to miss Inwha Baek, who finished up her work here this week. Inwha is moving to Rockefeller University to do post-doctoral work with Elaine Fuchs, and we wish her all the best! She goes out on a high note, with her single molecule study of initiation complex assembly accepted for publication in Molecular Cell. For a preview, you can access the pre-print on Biorxiv here.
Steve was fortunate to get a very early start as an independent investigator when he was a Whitehead Institute Fellow. With the latest renewal, we celebrate thirty straight years of NIH funding!
Lab celebrations are back! On Friday we had Robin's amazing mocha/chocolate cake for Gabby and Inwha's birthdays, and then on Tuesday we had lunch al fresco to celebrate Deepash's wedding.
Although Harvard graduation was online this year, we had a beautiful day to celebrate Dr. Inwha Baek!
This week we also celebrated Dr. Inwha Baek, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation using single-molecule microscopy to study transcription initiation and elongation. Over 100 people virtually attended her seminar, including friends and family all over the world. As is our tradition, the decorations on Robin's delicious cake illustrated Inwha's project. Congratulations, Inwha!
