Jenna Castro joins lab as a research assistant
Jenna will be working on the newly-funded NHP dGTex project that aims to characterize gene expression in a variety of tissues across prenatal and postnatal developmental stages in primates. Welcome Jenna!
Caitlin Peaslee joins lab a rotation student
Caitlin is a graduate student in PBMS working on her PhD. For her rotation project, she will be working on analyzing GEMINI Phase I and II hit gene variant lists. Welcome Caitlin!
Dharani Thirumalaisamy joins lab as an intern
Dharani is a DMICE Master’s Student who is doing an internship in the Conrad Lab this fall. She will be analyzing DNA sequencing data to look for aneuploidies in macaques. Welcome Dharani!
Helen Madeen joins lab as a computational biologist
Helen comes to the Conrad Lab from Arizona State University where she received a Masters in Natural Sciences. Although her background is in geobiology, she is excited to apply the bioinformatic skills she learned from her research experiences to human and non-human primate genetic data and is contributing to several projects in the Conrad lab […]
Benson Chong joins lab as an intern
Benson is a DMICE Master’s Student who is doing an internship in the Conrad Lab this fall. He will be using his background and interests in machine learning to look at testis scRNA-seq data. Welcome Benson!
Rytis Stakaitis and Ieva Golubickaite join lab as visiting scholars
Rytis and Ieva are PhD students at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and will be working in the Conrad Lab for one year as part of their thesis project. During their stay they hope to gain expertise in analyzing and interpreting NGS data. Welcome to both!
Daniel Lewinsohn joins lab as a student worker
After interning in the lab last summer, Daniel joins the lab as a student worker, while he takes a (COVID-19-related) break from his studies in Computer Science at Colorado College. Welcome Daniel!
Lab hosts virtual happy hour for past and present members
Covid-19 couldn’t stop the Conrad Lab from getting together to catch up on what everyone is doing across the globe. It was so good to see so many past and present lab members together in one “place”. Glad everyone is doing well!
Triona Matheson joins lab as a rotation student
Triona is a graduate student in PMBC. For her rotation project, she will be working on understanding the underlying mechanisms of male infertility using both wet lab and computational techniques. Welcome Triona!
Kevin MacPherson joins lab as a rotation student
Kevin is a graduate student in PMCB and our first rotation student at ONPRC! For his rotation project, he is working on detecting aneuploidies from single-cell data and fine-mapping somatic mutations from bulk RNA-seq. Welcome Kevin!