Lab News

Five years and one day after she joined the lab, we celebrated Dr. Kira Marshall's thesis defense. Op-awesome!

Justin is officially the lab's newest PhD student - welcome!

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)

It's Yongyan's last day - we'll miss you!

New preprint!
ISWI chromatin remodeler SMARCA5 is essential for meiotic gene expression and male fertility in mammals

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!

Some pre-July 4th relaxation at the lab retreat

Goodbye Caiyun! Good luck in St. Louis - we will miss you!

Caiyun Liao's paper on human-specific epigenomic states in spermatogenesis is out in Computational & Structural Biology Journal! See it here.

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!