12-10-2024. Jiawei’s WashU Repeat Browser paper has been accepted by Genome Research. Congratulations!
12-08-2024. Kara’s paper has been accepted in principle by Nature Communications. Congratulations!
11-26-2024. Ronghan Li joins our lab as a rotation student! Welcome, Ronghan!
11-07-2024. News release: Researchers make glioblastoma cells visible to attacking immune cells. WUSTL news.
10-01-2024. Turan Tufan joins our lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Turan!
09-04-2024. The IGVF marker paper is published online at Nature today! Our lab is one of the Data and Administrative Coordination Center. Congratulations!! NHGRI news: Differences in our DNA have major influences on how our genomes function, but how?!
09-02-2024. Josh, Nakul, Ju Heon and Holden’s paper “Epigenetic therapy potentiates transposable element transcription to create tumor-enriched antigens in glioblastoma cells” is online now at Nature Genetics today! Congratulations!!! Associated News & Views: Activating the dark genome to illuminate cancer vaccine targets.
08-31-2024. Alan and Xiaoyu’s paper “Regulatory transposable elements in the encyclopedia of DNA elements” is online now at Nature Communications today! Congratulations!!!
08-26-2024. Saifur Rahman joins our lab as a rotation student. Welcome, Saifur!
08-19-2024. Juan Jiang joins our lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Juan!
08-01-2024. Zheng Dong joins our lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Zheng!
07-30-2024. A collaboration with the Choi lab in the Department of Pathology and Immunology in WashU, “Baf155 controls hematopoietic differentiation and regeneration through chromatin priming” is online now at Cell Reports today! Congratulations!!! Fan is the co-first author, Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
07-15-2024. Tianjie Liu joins our lab as a postdoc. Welcome Tianjie!
07-06-2024. 2024 annual summer party!! Congrats to the successful defense of Ivy and Xuan! Some pictures. Thanks Aparna and everyone for organizing it!!
07-04-2024. Holden’s paper “LINE1 mediates long-range DNA interactions” is online now at Nature Genetics today! Congratulations!!!
07-02-2024. Aiden Qian joins our lab for summer study. Welcome Aiden!
06-28-2024. A collaboration with Fehniger Lab in WashU, “Cytokines drive the formation of memory-like NK cell subsets via epigenetic rewiring and transcriptional regulation” is online now at Science Immunology today! Congratulations!!! Fan and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
06-21-2024. A collaboration with Ecker lab in Salk Institute, “BAllC and BAllCools: Efficient Formatting and Operating for Single-Cell DNA Methylation Data” is online now at Bioinformatics today! Congratulations!!! Jiawei, Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
06-20-2024. Qichen Fu joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Qichen!
06-12-2024. A collaboration with Ecker lab in Salk Institute, “BAllC and BAllCools: Efficient Formatting and Operating for Single-Cell DNA Methylation Data” is acceptted by Bioinformatics today! Jiawei, Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
06-10-2024. Kara Quaid successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Quaid! Some pictures.
06-06-2024. Fan’s paper “Cis-regulatory evolution of the recently expanded Ly49 gene family” is online now at Nature Communications today! Congratulations!!!
06-03-2024. Rachel Wu joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome back, Rachel!
05-31-2024. Anyi Sun and Carlos Saeh joins our lab for summer study. Welcome Anyi and Carlos!
05-29-2024. Ana Welge joins our lab for summer study. Welcome Ana!
05-24-2024. Xuan Qu successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Xuan! Some pictures.
05-08-2024. Yujie Chen (Ivy) successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Chen! Some pictures.
05-06-2024. Shane Liu joins our lab as a bioinformatics research analyst. Welcome Shane!
04-30-2024. Wesley Saintilnord joins our lab as a postdoc. Welcome Wesley!
03-29-2024. Colin McCornack joins our lab for a rotation. Welcome Colin!
03-26-2024. Ting is named as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)! Congratulations!!! WUSTL news.
03-01-2024. Holden and Xuan talked about new research on transposable elements and cancer, video news at Department of Genetics Website. Congratulations!!!
02-19-2024. Rachel Wu joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Rachel!
02-12-2024. A collaboration with Fudan University, “Integrated multiomic profiling of breast cancer in the Chinese population reveals patient stratification and therapeutic vulnerabilities” is online at Nature Cancer today! Nakul and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
02-09-2024. Bruktawit Amare joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Bruk!
02-07-2024. A collaboration with Mitra lab in WashU, “Pycallingcards: an integrated environment for visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting Calling Cards data” is online at Bioinformatics today! Wenjin, Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
02-01-2024. Chad Seng joins the lab working with Daofeng on the WashU Epigenome Browser. Welcome Chad!
01-16-2024. Holden, Xuan, and Nakul’s paper on TE and cancer is online now at Nature Reviews Cancer today! Congratulations!!!
01-05-2024. A collaboration with Institute for Informatics (I2) lab in WashU, “sc2MeNetDrug: A computational tool to uncover inter-cell signaling targets and identify relevant drugs based on single cell RNA-seq data” is online at PLoS Computational Biology today! Ting is co-author. Congratulations!
12-18-2023. A collaboration with Colonna Lab’s lab in WashU， “A distinct human cell type expressing MHCII and RORγt with dual characteristics of dendritic cells and type 3 innate lymphoid cells” is online at PNAS Alina was a rotation student, Fan and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!!!
12-13-2023. A collaboration with Bing Ren’s lab in UCSD， “Conserved and divergent gene regulatory programs of the mammalian neocortex” is online at Nature Daofeng, Xiaoyu, Vincent (alumni) and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!!!
12-8-2023. Ju Heon’s paper “Using long-read CAGE sequencing to profile cryptic-promoter-derived transcripts and their contribution to the immunopeptidome” is online at Genome Research today. Congratulations!!!
12-6-2023. Daofeng’s paper “Modbed track: Visualization of modified bases in single-molecule sequencing” is online at Cell Genomics today. Congratulations!!!
12-5-2023. Zheng Xu joins the lab for his master project. Welcome Zheng!
11-29-2023. Holden, Xuan, and Nakul’s review on TE and cancer has been accepted by Nature Reviews Cancer! Congratulations!
11-13-2023. Ju Heon’s long-read CAGE paper has been officially accepted by Genome Research! Congratulations!
11-13-2023. Evelyn Yang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Evelyn!
11-4-2023. The modbed track paper is accepted by Cell Genomics! Congratulations to the Browser team!
10-17-2023. Aaron Tran joins the lab as a part-time researcher. Welcome Aaron!
10-3-2023. Elle Mehinovic joins the lab for her master’s project. Welcome Elle!
10-3-2023. Edward Kang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Edward!
9-30-2023. A collaboration with Kang lab in UC Berkeley, “TET3 plays a critical role in white adipose development and diet-induced remodeling” is online at Cell Reports today! Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
9-25-2023. A collaboration with Dr. Megan A. Cooper lab in the Department of Medicine, “IL-15 Priming Alters IFN-γ Regulation in Murine NK Cells” is online at The Journal of Immunology today! Changxu and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
9-22-2023. Jennifer and Erica’s paper “Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Epigenomes Exhibit Altered DNA Methylation in Smokers and Never-smokers” is online now at Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics today! Congratulations!!!
9-18-2023. Our lab participates in an effort to lead the new multi-omics production center for NIH research consortium, WashU news.
9-18-2023. Samagya Banskota joins the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome Samagya!
8-29-2023. Qichen Fu joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Qichen!
8-19-2023. 6th lab float trip. Some pictures.
8-1-2023. Michelle Gibbs joins the lab as Ting’s assistant! Welcome, Michelle!
8-1-2023. Ting started his new position as the head of genetics today! Congratulations!
7-11-2023. Eva Kasal, Anderson Dai, Everett Cui, and Junsik Yun joined the lab for summer study. Welcome, Eva, Andy, Everett, and Junsik!
7-11-2023. Justin Chen joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Justin!
7-7-2023. Alaina Urman joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Alaina!
6-24-2023. 2023 annual summer party!! Congrats to Ting for going to be Chair of Genetics and farewell to Nakul! Some pictures. Thanks to everyone!!
6-20-2023. WUSM news release: Wang, nationally recognized geneticist, named head of genetics.
6-13-2023. [MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN] Ting will become the next Head of the Department of Genetics, starting on August 1! Congratulations to Ting and the lab!!!
6-13-2023. A collaboration with Bernal-Mizrachi lab in the Department of Medicine, “Embryonic vitamin D deficiency programs hematopoietic stem cells to induce type 2 diabetes” is online at Nature Communications today! Ting, Xiaoyun and Daofeng are co-authors. Congratulations!
6-13-2023. A collaboration with Gibson lab in Stowers Institute, “Spatial transcriptomics reveals a cnidarian segment polarity program in Nematostella vectensis” is online at Current Biology today! Wanqing (alumni) and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
6-7-2023. Heather and Holden’s review on how transposable elements shape and maintain 3D genome is online at Nature Reviews Genetics today! twitter. Congratulations!!!
6-6-2023. Roni Salisu joins the lab for summer studies. Welcome, Roni!
5-16-2023. Ju Heon Maeng joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome back Ju Heon!
5-11-2023. We are part of the Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Network, leading the organizational center and supporting one of the data production centers. WUSM news release: WashU Medicine joins national effort to ID genetic differences within the body.
5-10-2023. Ju Heon Maeng successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Maeng! Some pictures.
5-10-2023. Human pangenome collection in Nature. WUSM news release: Detailed human pangenome reference captures human diversity.
5-9-2023. Qinglin Zeng joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Qinglin!
5-8-2023. Xiaoyu’s Comparative Epigenome Browser paper is online at Genome Research today!
5-3-2023. Xiaoyu’s Comparative Epigenome Browser paper has been officially accepted by Genome Research. Congratulations!!!
4-24-2023. Heather and Holden’s review “Transposable elements in mammalian chromatin organization” has been accepted by Nature Review Genetics!!! Congrats!!!
4-21-2023. Alan Du successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Du! Some pictures.
4-12-2023. Xiaoyun and Jennifer’s Capture MRE-Seq protocol for Highly Degraded DNA Samples is online at MIMB, it’s part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series (MIMB,volume 2621).
4-10-2023. A collaboration with Dr. Hannan and Dr. Hultgren lab titled “Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome” is online now at Nature Microbiology. Jessica, HyungJoo, Xiaoyun, and Fan are co-authors, and Ting is a co-senior author, Congratulations!
4-3-2023. Research briefing from Nature Genetics on Nakul, Josh and Holden’s paper: Chimeric transcripts of transposable elements and genes are a source of tumor-specific antigens.
3-31-2023. A news release from WashU, School of Medicine on Nakul, Josh and Holden’s paper: Jumping genes in cancer cells open door to new immunotherapies.
3-30-2023. Media release on Nakul, Josh, and Holden’s paper: Translation of “Jumping Genes” Creates Cancer Therapy Targets from TheScientist, and Reactivated Promoters in Transposable Elements Help Form Unique Tumor Antigens from genomeweb.
3-27-2023. Nakul, Josh and Holden’s paper “Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements” is online at Nature Genetics today!
3-20-2023. Evan Peng joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Evan!
2-23-2023. Nakul, Josh and Holden’s paper: ‘Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements’ has been accepted for publication in Nature Genetics today! Congratulations!!!
2-13-2023. Mitchell Grinwald joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Mitchell!
2-9-2023. A collaboration with Guoyan Zhao’s lab titled “Human striatal glia differentially contribute to AD- and PD-specific neurodegeneration” is online now at Nature Aging. Yiran and Ting are co-authors, Congratulations!
2-7-2023. Michael Moore joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Michael!
2-6-2023. Mayank and Kara’s paper “Widespread contribution of transposable elements to the rewiring of mammalian 3D genomes” is online at Nature Communications today!
2-3-2023. Shihua Dong joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome Shihua!
1-26-2023. Mayank and Kara’s TE-3D genome paper has been officially accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations!!!
12-13-2022. Justin Chen joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Justin!
11-29-2022. Ai Zhang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Ai!
11-2-2022. Nina Tekkey joins the lab as an undergraduate student. Welcome, Nina!
10-24-2022. Ling Liao joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Ling!
10-19-2022. One of the papers from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium “Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes” is online at Nature today! Daofeng and Ting are co-authors, congratulations!
10-14-2022. The dynseq browser track paper is online at Nature Genetics today! This is a collaboration with Anshul Kundaje’s lab from Stanford University. Daofeng and Ting are co-authors, congratulations!
10-11-2022. News release: $9 million to fund study of ‘jumping genes’ in Alzheimer’s.
10-3-2022. Alan’s paper “Functional characterization of enhancer activity during a long terminal repeat’s evolution” is online at Genome Research today. Congratulations!
10-3-2022. Collaborated with Dr. Colonna from Department of Pathology and Immunology and Dr. Yokoyama lab from Department of Medicine, “The transcription factor Bach2 negatively regulates murine natural killer cell maturation and function” is published in eLife today! Benpeng, Changxu, Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!!!
9-26-2022. Zilan Xin joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Zilan!
9-23-2022. Congratulations to Celine for winning the best talk award at the retreat!! Congratulations to Ivy for winning best poster award at the retreat!!
9-22-2022. News release: School of Medicine joins major NIH brain mapping effort, The Source from WashU.
9-2-2022. Emma Bartley-Dier joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Emma!
9-1-2022. Kaye Brathwaite joins the lab as a guest investigator. Welcome, Kaye!
8-26-2022. Doris Wu joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Doris!
8-25-2022. Interested in how sequences introduced by transposon activities provide raw material for genome innovation and document the distinct evolutionary path of each species? Check this review by Andrew Modzelewski, Johnny Gan Chong, Ting Wang and Lin He.
8-25-2022. The dynseq track paper has now been accepted for publication in Nature Genetics! This is a collaboration with Dr. Kundaje lab from Stanford. Congratulations!
8-23-2022. Alan’s paper “Functional characterization of enhancer activity during a long terminal repeat’s evolution” has been officially accepted by Genome Research. Congratulations!
8-22-2022. Wenjin Zhang is joining the lab for his thesis study. Welcome, Wenjin! Also Qinglin Zeng has joined the lab for his first rotation. Welcome Qinglin!
8-15-2022. Xiaowen Ma joins the lab as a Bioinformatics Research Analyst. Welcome Xiaowen!
8-13-2022. 5th lab float trip. Some pictures.
7-23-2022. 2022 annual summer party!! Some pictures. Thanks to everyone!!
7-21-2022. 3D genome browser paper is online at Nature Methods today!
7-20-2022. Yiran Hou successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Hou! Some pictures.
6-20-2022. 3D genome browser paper is accepted by Nature Methods! Congratulations!!
6-15-2022. Jen’s lung cancer paper is online at Cancer Research today!
6-1-2022. Hyung Joo, Yiran, and Ju Heon’s “Epigenomic landscape of zebrafish TEs” is online at Genome Research today! This is a collaboration with Dr. Hongbo Yang and Dr. Feng Yue. Congratulations!!!
5-27-2022. Hyung Joo, Yiran, and Ju Heon’s zebrafish TE paper has been officially accepted by Genome Research!!! Congratulations!!!
5-17-2022. Nahyun Kong joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Nahyun!
5-16-2022. Michael Moore and Mitchell Grinwald joined the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Michael and Mitchell!
5-15-2022. Jen’s lung cancer paper has been accepted by Cancer Research. Congratulations Jen!!!
5-10-2022. Collaborated with Dr. Zhang and Dr. Theunissen lab from Department of Developmental Biology, “A genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen identifies essential and growth-restricting genes in human trophoblast stem cells” is published in Nature Communications today! Xiaoyun, Jessica and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!!!
5-6-2022. Siyuan Cheng joins the lab for his summer internship! Welcome Siyuan!
5-2-2022. Celine’s paper about allele-specific gene expression is online at Genome Research today! Congratulations, Celine!!!
4-29-2022. Jiawei Shen is joining the lab for his PhD in computer science and engineering! Welcome Jiawei!
4-20-2022. Human Pangenome Project perspective: The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity is online at Nature today! Congratulations!
4-12-2022. Congratulations to Yiran Hou, recipient of the 2022 Barbara Jakschik Award! Well done! Previous awardee who was also very influential to the Wang lab is Helen Hu, the 2003 Barbara Jakschik Awardee, when Ting was a 3rd year PhD student!
4-12-2022. Browser update 2022 paper is online at NAR today!
4-4-2022. KCBS Radio news anchor Dan Mitchinson spoke with Ting: Two decades after the Human Genome Project’s ‘first draft,’ scientists have produced the first complete human genome.
3-24-2022. Collaborated with Dr. Colonna lab from Department of Pathology and Immunology, “Whole-genome profiling of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation identifies distinct regulatory programs among innate lymphocytes” is published in Nature Immunology today! Xiaoyun, Daofeng, Hyung Joo are co-authors, and Ting is co-corresponding author! Congratulations!!
3-24-2022. The manuscript “WashU Epigenome Browser update 2022” has been officially accepted by Nucleic Acids Research! Congratulations!!!
3-11-2022. Jiawei Shen joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Jiawei!
3-1-2022. The Perspective for the Human Pangenome Project “The Human Pangenome Project: A Global Resource to Map Genomic Diversity” has been accepted for publication by Nature! Congratulations!!
2-24-2022. Xuan Qu is joining the lab for her thesis study. Welcome Xuan!!
1-16-2022. Juan Macias joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Juan!
1-14-2022. Prashant Kumar Kuntala joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Prashant!
1-13-2022. The AnVIL project which Ting participated in is published at Cell Genomics today!
12-3-2021. Ariya Chaloemtoem joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Ariya!
11-1-2021. Clinton Jules joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Clinton!
10-13-2021. Jennifer Karlow (Flynn) successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Karlow! Some pictures.
10-12-2021. Collaborated with Dr. He lab from University of California, Berkeley, “A mouse-specific retrotransposon drives a conserved Cdk2ap1 isoform essential for development” is published in Cell today! Wanqing is co-first author, Aparna is co-author, and Ting is co-corresponding author! Congratulations!!
10-4-2021. Josh and Ivy’s zebrafish pigment cell paper is published in Genome Biology today! Congratulations!!
9-29-2021. Lisa Liao joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Lisa!
9-13-2021. Dian Li joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Dian!
9-10-2021. Wenjin Zhang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Wenjin!
9-9-2021. Josh and Ivy’s zebrafish pigment cell paper has been officially accepted by Genome Biology. Congratulations!!!
9-9-2021. WashU Med School news release on IGVF funding: $7 million to support research into how human genome works. Also the NHGRI news release: Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium.
9-8-2021. Max Wrubel joins the lab for conducting research as a post-bacc from the “Opportunities in Genomics Research Program”. Welcome, Max!
8-31-2021. Aaron Anderson joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Aaron!
8-26-2021. Collaborated with Dr. Wang lab from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dr. Theunissen lab from WashU, “OCT4 cooperates with distinct ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers in naïve and primed pluripotent states in human” is published in Nature Communications. Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!!
8-25-2021. Collaborated with Dr. Chiappinelli lab from The George Washington University, “Epigenetic therapies in ovarian cancer alter repetitive element expression in a TP53-dependent manner” is published in Cancer Research. Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!!
8-24-2021. We are funded to lead the IGVF Data Coordination Center!
8-1-2021. Shane Liu joins the lab as a part-time researcher. Welcome, Shane!
7-22-2021. Mayank NK Choudhary successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Choudhary! Some pictures.
7-15-2021. Collaborated with Bo’s group, the ATAC-seq pipeline: AIAP is published in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics today! Daofeng is co-first author, Benpeng is co-author, and Ting is co-senior author. Congratulations!!
7-1-2021. Welcome the Lawson lab joining our group!
6-19-2021. Annual summer party!! First ever gathering this year!! Some pictures. Thanks to everyone!!
6-18-2021. Clara Liu joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Clara!
6-1-2021. Amy Li joins the lab as a summer undergraduate student! Welcome, Amy!
5-21-2021. Jen and Bo’s paper “Common DNA methylation dynamics in endometriod adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma suggest universal epigenomic alterations in tumorigenesis” is Communications Biology today!
5-17-2021. Collaborated with Murphy lab from Department of Pathology and Immunology, “Differential usage of transcriptional repressor Zeb2 enhancers distinguishes adult and embryonic hematopoiesis” is published on Immunity today! Mayank, Changxu and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!!
4-30-2021. Karen from UCSC and Ting published an annual review The Need for a Human Pangenome Reference Sequence at Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics.
4-22-2021. The human placenta project paper is online at Developmental Cell today! Bo (alumni) is first author, GiNell (alumni), Daofeng, Rebecca (alumni), Renee (alumni), Erica (alumni) are co-authors, and Ting is co-senior author! This is a collaborative work from our lab with Costello and Fisher lab from UCSF. Congratulations to all!
4-20-2021. Changfeng Chen joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Changfeng!
4-12-2021. Fujr and Scarlett both accepted offers from Johns Hopkins University! Fujr will join the human genetics program and Scarlett will join the cellular and molecular medicine program! Congratulations to Fujr and Scarlett!!
4-10-2021. Jen and Bo’s pan-cancer paper has been officially accepted by Communications Biology! Congratulations, Jen and Bo!!
4-1-2021. Xiaoyun and Deepak are promoted to Senior Scientist! Congratulations, Xiaoyun and Deepak!
3-19-2021. A collaborative work from our lab with labs from Princess Margaret Cancer Center/University Health Network, University of Oulu, University of Toronto, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University and Changhai Hospital, “CRISPRi screens reveal a DNA methylation-mediated 3D genome dependent causal mechanism in prostate cancer” has been published on Nature Communications! Hyungjoo and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!
3-19-2021. Hannah Chay won an Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA). Congratulations!!!
2-24-2021. Aparna Anand is joining the lab for her thesis study. Welcome back Aparna!!!
1-27-2021. Hannah Y. Chay joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome Hannah!
1-12-2021. Welcome to check our lab introduction video: Welcome to Wang Lab. Credits for all the people who appeared in the video (Jessica, Holden, Yiran, Xiaoyun, Ann, and Ting!). Holden wrote the initial scripts, Jessica did the filming and Ann Zhang helps edited the film.
12-21-2020. Wanqing’s paper “Transcript assembly improves expression quantification of transposable elements in single-cell RNA-seq data” is online at Genome Research today!
12-16-2020. Ann Zhang joins the lab for part-time research! Welcome, Ann!
12-11-2020. Lab cake run to celebrate the holiday and papers this year! Some pictures. Thanks to everyone!
12-10-2020. Xiaoyu’s paper “Epigenomic differences in the human and chimpanzee genomes are associated with structural variation” is online at Genome Research today!
12-3-2020. Xiaoyu’s paper has been officially accepted by Genome Research! Congratulations, Xiaoyu!
11-25-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Feng Yue’s lab at Northwestern University “A map of cis-regulatory elements and 3D genome structures in zebrafish” has been published on Nature! Hyungjoo, Xiaoyun, Daofeng, Mayank and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!
11-24-2020. Yiran’s zebrafish microgrant is funded!!! Congratulations, Yiran!
11-24-2020. Wanqing’s paper has been officially accepted by Genome Research! Congratulations, Wanqing!
11-17-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Kyunghee Choi’s lab at WashU “Requisite Chromatin Remodeling for Myeloid and Erythroid Lineage Differentiation from Erythromyeloid Progenitors” has been published on Cell Reports! Hyungjoo, Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!
10-14-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Yin Shen’s lab at UCSF “Cell-type-specific 3D epigenomes in the developing human cortex” has been published on Nature! Fan, Mayank and Ting are co-authors! Congratulations!
10-12-2020. Caryn Carson joined the lab as a postdoc and Aparna Anand joined the lab for rotation! Welcome Caryn and Aparna!
9-29-2020. Benpeng Miao’s paper “Tissue-specific usage of transposable element-derived promoters in mouse development” is online at Genome Biology today! Congratulations Benpeng!
9-28-2020. Joseph Bradley joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Joseph!
9-21-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Rob Mitra’s lab on developing the ‘qBed’ track on WashU Epigenome Browser has been published on Bioinformatics!
9-9-2020. Our WashU Virus Genome Browser manuscript “Exploring the coronavirus pandemic with the WashU Virus Genome Browser” is online at Nature Genetics today!
8-24-2020. Reeve Sobol joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Revee!
8-20-2020. Our WashU Virus Genome Browser manuscript “Exploring the coronavirus pandemic with the WashU Virus Genome Browser”, has now been accepted for publication in Nature Genetics!! Congratulations!!!
8-12-2020. Yiran’s single cell paper “Cellular diversity of the regenerating caudal fin” is online at Science Advances today.
7-1-2020. Yu and Josh’s DeepH&M paper is online at Science Advances today.
6-29-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Guoyan Zhao’s lab about outlier sample detection in RNA-Seq data is online at BMC Bioinformatics today.
6-26-2020. Yiran’s paper has been officially accepted by Science Advances! This is our first single cell genomics paper! Congratulations, Yiran!
6-23-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Bo Zhang’s lab “Comparison of differential accessibility analysis strategies for ATAC-seq data” is online at Scientific Reports today.
6-11-2020. Welcome another lab baby Giann Maeng!! Congratulations Juheon and Hyo!!
6-8-2020. Welcome lab baby Dhruv Purushotham!! Congratulations Deepak and Chandni!!
6-2-2020. Justin Xu, Eric Yin and Alina Chen joined the lab to conduct summer research remotely. Welcome, Justin, Eric and Alina!
5-6-2020. Sophie Xu and Chris Hemauer joined the lab to conduct summer research remotely. Welcome, Sophie and Chris!
5-22-2020. Tami Wong joined the lab to conduct summer research remotely. Welcome, Tami!
5-15-2020. Nakul was awarded with Dr. Richard S. Brookings Medical School Prize. Congratulations, Nakul!
5-14-2020. HyungJoo’s paper is mentioned in School of Medicine’s news hub: Scientific legacy sheds light on cell identity. This paper also highlights the scientific legacy of the late Stephen L. Johnson, PhD.
5-6-2020. Sophie Xu and Chris Hemauer joined the lab to conduct summer research remotely. Welcome, Sophie and Chris!
4-28-2020. Yu and Josh’s paper “DeepH&M: Estimating single-CpG hydroxymethylation and methylation levels from enrichment and restriction enzyme sequencing methods” is accepted by Science Advances! Congratulations Yu and Josh!!
4-23-2020. Ali was awarded the Spector award “Honorable mention”, and a $1000 prize.
4-7-2020. Ruthy Mamo joins the lab again for one month study. Welcome back, Ruthy!
3-27-2020. Yu He successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. He! Some pictures.
3-26-2020. Alina Ulezko Antonova joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Alina!
3-25-2020. The collaborative work with Jing Li “A genomic and epigenomic atlas of prostate cancer in Asian populations” is online at Nature today!
3-6-2020. Josh was named Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Science Fellows. Congratulations, Josh!
2-27-2020. HyungJoo’s paper “Regenerating zebrafish fin epigenome is characterized by stable lineage-specific DNA methylation and dynamic chromatin accessibility” is online at Genome Biology today!
2-18-2020. Welcome lab baby Raphael Matt! Congratulations Gavriel and Sarah!!
2-17-2020. Holden Liang joins the lab for his thesis study and Ji-Sun Kwon joins lab for a rotation! Welcome Holden and Ji-Sun!
2-11-2020. Jessica Harrison joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome, Jessica!
2-5-2020. We released the WashU Virus Genome Browser online at https://virusgateway.wustl.edu/. We sincerely hope this tool assists researchers in their quest to better understand “2019nCoV” as we race to develop diagnostics & therapeutics.
1-27-2020. HyungJoo’s paper about zebrafish fin regeneration is accepted by Genome Biology! Congratulations HyungJoo!
1-23-2020. WashU School of Medicine news release: ‘Jumping genes’ help stabilize DNA folding patterns.
1-23-2020. Mayank’s paper “Co-opted transposons help perpetuate conserved higher-order chromosomal structures” is online at Genome Biology now!
1-21-2020. Rafael Feliciano joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Rafael!
1-17-2020. A collaborative work from our lab with Jing Li’s group: “A genomic and epigenomic atlas of prostate cancer in Asian populatons” has been accepted by Nature!! Hyung Joo is co-first author, Nakul and Erica are co-authors, and Ting is the co-corresponding author! Congratulations!!!
1-16-2020. Josh Jang successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Jang! Some pictures.
1-2-2020. Josh and Nakul’s paper is selected as one of the 2019 Papers of the Year!!
1-2-2020. Angela Wu joins the lab as an intern Master degree student! Welcome Angela!!
12-19-2019. Erica’s paper: The epigenomic landscape of transposable elements across normal human development and anatomy., Nature Communications, 2019 (DOI: 10.3410/f.737064401.793568922), has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Daniel De Carvalho. 
12-16-2019. Erica’s paper has been featured as one of the Editors’ Highlights of recent research on Genomes and Epigenomes by the editors at Nature Communications!!
12-10-2019. Erica’s paper “The epigenomic landscape of transposable elements across normal human development and anatomy” is online now at Nature Communications.
12-9-2019. Mayank’s paper “Co-opted transposons help perpetuate conserved higher-order chromosomal structures” has now been accepted for publication in Genome Biology! Congratulations to Mayank and co-authors!!
11-14-2019. Yawei Wu joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Yawei!
11-1-2019. Happy 10th birthday, Wang Lab!! a short video for celebration.
10-3-2019. Erica’s paper has been accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations Erica!!
9-26-2019. Our lab is now leading the Human Pangenome Project. News release from WashU: NIH funds centers to improve, diversify reference human genome; News release from NHGRI: NIH funds centers for advancing the reference sequence of the human genome. Check out humanpangenome.org.
9-10-2019. Fujr Ibrahim joins the lab for training. Welcome, Fujr!
9-9-2019. Jessica Harrison joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Jessica!
9-3-2019. Renee Sears successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Sears! [Some pictures]/thesis-defenses/renee-defense/).
8-17-2019. 4th lab float trip. Some pictures.
8-16-2019. Yonghao Liang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Yonghao!
8-13-2019. Gavriel Matt joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Gavriel!
7-20-2019. 10th annual summer party. Some pictures.
6-27-2019. Xianglin Zhang joins the lab for research training. Welcome, Xianglin!
6-10-2019. Josh and Nakul’s paper is selected as one of the Papers of the Month by Environmental Factor from NIEHS!
6-5-2019. The new browser paper is online now.
6-3-2019. Jeffery McMillian joins the lab for her summer Young Scientist Program (YSP) fellowship. Welcome, Jeffery!
5-30-2019. Changxu Fan joins the lab for his thesis study. Also, Ruthy Mamo joins the lab for summer research. Welcome, Changxu and Ruthy!
5-29-2019. Kara Quaid joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome, Kara!
5-24-2019. Vincent Xu, Jason Xu, Justin Xu, Ann Zhang, Samuel Chen and Justin Chen joins the lab for summer research. Welcome, Vincent, Jason, Ann, Samuel and 2 Justin :)
5-21-2019. A collaborative work from our lab with Van Andel Research Institute is highlighted in Science News: Road to cell death mapped in the Alzheimer’s brain.
4-25-2019. The new WashU Epigenome browser paper has been accepted by Nucleic Acids Research!! Congratulations!!
4-13-2019. Noah Basri and Scarlett Ge join the lab for research training. Welcome, Noah and Scarlett!
4-9-2019. Our article: Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers., Nature Genetics, 2019 (DOI: 10.3410/f.735412113.793558627), has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Michael Zhang!
3-29-2019. the SOURCE: ‘Jumping genes’ drive many cancers.
3-29-2019. Josh and Nakul’s paper “Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers” is online at Nature Genetics today! Congratulations!!
3-28-2019. WashU Epigeome Browser workshop by Ting at City of Hope.
3-19-2019. Geng Wang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Geng!
3-13-2019. Our article : Long-Term In Vitro Expansion of Epithelial Stem Cells Enabled by Pharmacological Inhibition of PAK1-ROCK-Myosin II and TGF-β Signaling., Cell reports, 2018 (DOI: 10.3410/f.734243922.793554940), has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Ed Manser!
3-5-2019. Changxu Fan joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Changxu!
2-25-2019. Kara Quaid joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Kara!
2-22-2019. Washington University School of Medicine News Release: Wang named Loewentheil Distinguished Professor!
2-18-2019. Xinxin Wang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Xinxin!
2-12-2019. Josh and Nakul’s paper “Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers”, has now been accepted for publication in Nature Genetics! Congratulations, Josh and Nakul!!
1-28-2019. Erica, Josh and Ting published a chapter “Epigenetic Alterations in Cancer” in book “Cancer Genomics for the Clinician”! Congratulations!! [amazon, Springer]
1-25-2019. Wenwei Liao joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Wenwei!
12-3-2018. Ting is honored as the SANFORD AND KAREN LOEWENTHEIL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE!! Congratulations Ting!!!
11-6-2018. Collaborated with Azad Bonni’s lab, “Characterization of a Mouse Model of Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome” has been publised at Cell Reports. Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
11-6-2018. Benpeng Miao joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Benpeng!
11-2-2018. Collaborated with Nan Lin’s lab, a novel multiple testing procedure for better FDR control on heterogeneous discrete tests is publised at Biometrics. Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
10-26-2018. Yiran won the Philip and Sima Needleman Student Fellowship in Regenerative Medicine. Congratulations, Yiran!
10-16-2018. Collaborated with Propagenix, our work “Long-Term In Vitro Expansion of Epithelial Stem Cells Enabled by Pharmacological Inhibition of PAK1-ROCK-Myosin II and TGF-β Signaling” has been published at Cell Reports. Hyung Joo is co-second author, Ting is co-corresponding author. Congratulations!
10-4-2018. Collaborated with Feng Yue’s group, the 3D genome browser has been published at Genome Biology. Daofeng, Mayank are co-authors, Ting is co-corresponding author. Congratulations!
10-1-2018. Wanqing Shao joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Wanqing!
9-20-2018. We have renewed our TE R01.
7-28-2018. 9th annual summer party. Some pictures.
7-1-2018. Ting is promoted to full professor!! Congratulations Ting!!!
6-20-2018. Yiran, Hyung Joo, and Josh’s proposal “Cell-State Transition in Zebrafish Caudal Fin Regeneration” won a $10k micro-grant from the Children’s Discovery Institute’s Zebrafish Models for Pediatric Research Services Cooperative (ZRSC). Congratulations!
6-11-2018. David Ayeke joins the lab as a part-time programmer. Welcome, David!
6-4-2018. Benjamin Katz joins the lab as a summer student. Welcome, Ben!
6-1-2018. Julia Wang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Julia!
5-11-2018. Nakul Shah has been selected to receive mentored training with top biomedical scientists through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Medical Research Fellows Program! Congratulations, Nakul!! (news)
5-9-2018. Ivy Chen joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome, Ivy!
4-23-2018. Alan Du received honorable mention for his NSF fellowship application! Congratulations, Alan!!
4-9-2018. Ali Wilkening won the 2018 WashU BioSURF award! Congratulations, Ali!!
3-15-2018. Nakul won the HHMI Medical Research Fellows award (2018-2019)! Congratulations, Nakul!!
3-6-2018. The TaRGET II white paper is online at Nature Biotechnology now!!!
2-19-2018. Yize Li and Ivy Chen join the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Yize and Ivy!
1-9-2018. The white paper for TaRGET II Consortium, “The NIEHS TaRGET II Consortium and environmental epigenomics,” has now been accepted for publication in Nature Biotechnology!!
12-14-2017. Renee and Paula wins the prize at 2017 Holiday Dessert Contest for NGS-Era: 3D-genome (chromosome; DNA base pairs; histones; and epigenetic gene regulation)! (Cake pictures).
12-10-2017. Xiaoyun’s protocol about MeDIP-seq and MRE-seq is online at DNA Methylation Protocols now.
12-5-2017. Vasavi’s paper about “Transposable Element Mediated Innovation in Gene Regulatory Landscapes” is online now.
11-13-2017. Paula Godoy and Ryan Friedman join the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Paula and Ryan!
10-30-2017. Kyle Burbach joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Kyle!
10-27-2017. Vasavi’s review article “Transposable element mediated innovation in gene regulatory landscapes of cells: Re-visiting the ‘gene-battery’ model” has been accepted by BioEssays. Congratulations, Vasavi!!
10-18-2017. Lucas Thomas joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Lucas!
10-17-2017. Erica Pehrsson is awarded the American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congratulations!!
10-13-2017. Josh got the best talk reward from the 2017 MGG/CSB/HSG program annual retreat! Congratulations!!
9-18-2017. Haoyue Xue joins the lab as a part-time Research Assistant. Welcome, Haoyue!
9-14-2017. Ali Wilkening and Aiyana Riddihough join the lab as undergraduate students. Welcome, Ali and Aiyana!
9-12-2017. Jia and Renee’s paper about conserved tissue-specific DNA methylation is online at BMC Genomics now.
9-7-2017. A collaboration with Andrew Yoo’s lab titled “MicroRNAs Induce a Permissive Chromatin Environment That Enables Neuronal Subtype-specific Reprogramming of Adult Human Fibroblasts” is online now at Cell Stem Cell.
9-4-2017. Jia and Renee’s paper “Tissue-specific DNA methylation is conserved across human, mouse, and rat, and driven by primary sequence conservation” has been accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. Congratulations, Jia and Renee!!!
8-21-2017. The TaRGET white paper has been accepted by Nature Biotechnology! Congratulations!!!
8-12-2017. 3rd lab float trip. Some pictures.
8-8-2017. Mayank’s review which highlights online resources available to toxicological epigenetic researchers is online now at Current Opinion in Toxicology.
8-1-2017. Ju Heon Maeng joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome, Ju Heon!
7-15-2017. 8th annual summer party. Some pictures.
6-18-2017. Yu’s EpiCompare paper is online now at Bioinformatics.
6-16-2017. Congratulations to Erica for winning a prestigious W.M. Keck postdoc fellowship!!!
6-13-2017. Zea Zhu joins the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome, Zea!
6-12-2017. The collaboration with Dr. Plass about induced cryptic transcription start sites encoded in long terminal repeats is online at Nature Genetics now.
6-5-2017. Bo’s paper about epigenomic landscape of nicotinic receptor genes is online at BMC Genomics now.
6-2-2017. Yu’s paper “EpiCompare: An online tool to define and explore genomic regions with tissue or cell type-specific epigenomic features” has been accepted for publication in Bioinformatics. Congratulations, Yu!!
5-30-2017. Silas Hsu joins the lab again as a summer Master student. Welcome back, Silas!
5-23-2017. Justin Chen joins the lab again as a summer student. Welcome back, Justin!
5-23-2017. Bo’s paper “Uncovering the transcriptomic and epigenomic landscape of nicotinic receptor genes in non-neuronal tissues” has been accepted for publication in BMC Genomics. Congratulations, Bo!!
5-16-2017. Vasavi’s TE paper is highlighted at ScienceNews: Jumping genes play a big role in what makes us human.
5-9-2017. Hyung Joo Lee successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Lee! Some pictures.
5-8-2017. David Zhang joins the lab again as a summer undergraduate student. Welcome back, David!
5-2-2017. Alan Du joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome, Alan!
5-1-2017. The paper collaborated with Dr. Choi is online at JEM now.
4-12-2017. A collaboration with Dr. Plass from German Cancer Research Center on the mode of action of epigenetic therapies has been accepted for publication in Nature Genetics. Josh, Nakul, Daofeng, Jing, Bo and Yiran are co-authors, Ting is co-senior author. Congratulations!!
4-6-2017. Hyung Joo, Yiran, and Josh’s proposal “Identification of regulatory elements responsible for zebrafish regeneration” has been awarded $10,000 funding by the Children’s Discovery Institute’s Zebrafish Models for Pediatric Research Services Cooperative (ZRSC).
3-30-2017. Jing’s paper is highlighed by EurekAlert for news release: Cancer cells disguise themselves by switching off genes, new research reveals.
3-28-2017. Vasavi’s paper is online at Nature Communications now.
3-20-2017. A collaboration with Dr. Choi from Department of Pathology and Immunology titled “ETV2/ER71 regulates hematopoietic regeneration by promoting hematopoietic stem cell proliferation” has been accepted by the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!!
3-23-2017. Rebecca’s paper is online at PLOS One now.
3-6-2017. Rebecca’s paper “Epigenetic annotation of noncoding mutations identifies mutated pathways in primary liver cancer” has been accepted by PLOS One! Congratulations, Rebecca!!
2-2-2017. The Wang Lab received an U01 grant for Computational Analysis as part of NHGRI’s extension of the ENCODE Project which catalogs genes and regulatory regions. [NIH news release]
1-12-2017. Jing’s paper on uterine carcinosarcoma is online now at Neoplasia.
1-11-2017. Erika Schumacher joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Erika!
12-14-2016. Vasavi’s paper “Functional cis regulatory modules encoded by mouse-specific endogenous retrovirus” has been accepted by Nature Communications! Congratulations, Vasavi!!
12-12-2016. Jing’s paper on uterine carcinosarcoma has been accepted by Neoplasia! Congratulations, Jing!
11-17-2016. Ju Heon Maeng joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Ju Heon!
11-11-2016. Cheng Lyu joins the lab as a part time research assistant. Welcome, Cheng!
10-20-2016. Wang lab is going to host WashU Epigenome Day 2016 on Monday, November 21.
10-10-2016. Ananda Datta joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Ananda!
9-16-2016. Rebecca Lowdon successfully defended her PhD thesis “The Epigenomics of Cell Fate in Development and Disease”. Congratulations Dr. Lowdon! Some pictures.
8-22-2016. Jonathan Spalding joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Jonathan!
8-13-2016. 2nd lab float trip. Some pictures.
8-12-2016. “Inhibition of DNA Methyltransferases Blocks Mutant Huntingtin-Induced Neurotoxicity”, a collaboration with Dr. Yano at Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, is online now at Scientific Reports. Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
8-1-2016. Alan Du joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Alan!
7-31-2016. 7th annual summer party. Some pictures.
7-1-2016. We got a U24 grant to build the Environmental Epigenomics Data Coordination Center.
6-30-2016. Daniel Cui joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Daniel!
6-6-2016. Xiaoyu Zhuo joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Xiaoyu!
6-6-2016. Abbie Bowman and Julia Altman join lab as summer students. Welcome, Abbie and Julia!
6-2-2016. Silas Hsu joins the lab as a summer Master student. Welcome, Silas!
5-27-2016. Justin Chen joins the lab again as a summer student. Welcome back, Justin!
5-17-2016. Vasavi Sundaram successfully defended her PhD thesis “Identifying the regulatory role of transposable elements in mammalian genomes”. Congratulations Dr. Sundaram! Some pictures.
5-16-2016. David Zhang joins the lab again as a summer undergraduate student. Welcome back, David!
4-12-2016. Rebecca and Josh’s review article is online at Trends in Genetics now.
4-4-2016. Juan Macias joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome, Juan!
3-22-2016. Yiran Hou joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome, Yiran!
3-9-2016. Eileen Chen joins the lab as a summer medical student. Welcome, Eileen!
3-3-2016. Rebecca and Josh’s review article “Evolution of epigenetic regulation in vertebrate genomes” has been accepted by Trends in Genetics! Congratulations, Rebecca and Josh!!
2-17-2016. Junchen’s paper is online at G3 now.
2-3-2016. Junchen’s paper “Mapping of variable DNA methylation across multiple cell types defines a dynamic regulatory landscape of the human genome” is accepted by G3. Congratulations, Junchen!
2-1-2016. The Wang Lab is running workshops for WashU Epigenome Browser at Epigenomics 2016 conference at Puerto Rico! (workshop website, conference website)
2-1-2016. Erica Pehrsson joins the lab for her postdoc training. Welcome Erica!
12-31-2015. Yiran Hou joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Yiran!
12-4-2015. The Wang lab has moved to the new McKinley Scott Research Building!
11-30-2015. Aldrin Yim joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Aldrin!
11-25-2015. The MGLL paper, a collaboration with Dr. Ryan Bogdan, is published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
11-16-2015. Chengran Yang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Chengran!
10-27-2015. The paper “Perinatal deiodinase 2 expression in hepatocytes defines epigenetic susceptibility to liver steatosis and obesity” is online now at PNAS.
10-20-2015. WashU EpiGenome Browser workshop at The First International Epigenomics Conference in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Workshop website.
9-29-2015. “Perinatal Deiodinase 2 Expression in Hepatocytes Defines Epigenetic Susceptibility to Liver Steatosis and Obesity”, a collaboration with Dr. Bianco at Rush University Medical Center, has been accepted for publication at PNAS. Daofeng, Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
9-25-2015. Nakul Shah joins the lab for research training. Welcome, Nakul!
9-16-2015. We have received a U01 grant from NCI to establish “THE WASHU 4DN NETWORK DATA COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION CENTER”, with a focus on integration of genomic data and imaging data, grant announcement and press release.
9-3-2015. Mikayla Choi joins the lab to conduct undergraduate research. Welcome, Mikayla!
8-21-2015. Junchen Gu successfully defended his PhD thesis “Variation and Plasticity of DNA methylation in Genome Regulation”. Congratulations Dr. Gu! Some pictures.
8-6-2015. Lab float trip at Meramec River. Some pictures and videos.
8-4-2015. Our collaboration with Professor Elliot C. Nelson at Department of Psychiatry “Evidence of CNIH3 involvement in opioid dependence” is online now at Molecular Psychiatry.
8-1-2015. 6th annual summer party. Some pictures.
7-9-2015. Jennifer Flynn joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome back, Jennifer!
7-6-2015. Ivy Chen joins the lab as a summer intern. Welcome, Ivy!
7-1-2015. Ting is promoted to Associate professor with tenure! Cheers!!
6-22-2015. Asia M. Paguntalan, Tammy Ray and Justin Chen join lab as summer students. Welcome Asia, Tammy and Justin!
6-16-2015. Our collaboration with Professor Elliot C. Nelson at Department of Psychiatry, Wash U, on “Evidence of CNIH3 involvement in opioid dependence” has been accepted by Molecular Psychiatry. Bo, Ting and Xin are co-authors. Congratulations!
6-9-2015. Our collaboration with Dr. Ryan Bogdan at Department of Psychology, Wash U, on “Endocannabinoid variants and childhood adversity predict cannabis dependence symptoms and amygdala habituation” has been accepted by Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Bo, Daofeng and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!
6-4-2015. Mayank Choudhary joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome, Mayank!
6-1-2015. Diana Jiang joins the lab as a summer medical student. Welcome, Diana!
5-11-2015. David Zhang joins the lab as a summer undergraduate student. Welcome, David!
4-28-2015. Yu He joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome, Yu!
4-24-2015. GiNell Elliott successfully defended her PhD thesis “Complex Genome Regulation Characterized by Atypical Signatures in DNA Methylation”. Congratulations Dr. Elliott! Some pictures.
3-30-2015. Josh joins the lab for his thesis study. Welcome back, Josh!
3-25-3015. Our collaboration with Dr. Kyunghee Choi’s group “Induction of hematopoietic and endothelial cell program orchestrated by ETS transcription factor ER71/ETV2” is online now at EMBO reports.
2-26-2015. Our collaboration with Dr. Kyunghee Choi’s group at Department of Pathology and Immunology on “Induction of hematopoietic and endothelial cell program orchestrated by ETS transcription factor ER71/ETV2” has been accepted by EMBO Reports! Daofeng is the 2nd author, and Ting is co-corresponding author. Congratulations!!
2-23-2015. News release on Hyung Joo’s paper: Epigenome orchestrates embryonic development.
2-20-2015. Hyung Joo’s paper “Developmental enhancers revealed by extensive DNA methylome maps of zebrafish early embryos” in now online at Nature Communications!
2-18-2015. News release on our Roadmap papers: Scientists unveil map of human epigenomes in effort to fight disease.
2-18-2015. Check out the Epigenome Roadmap Collections at Nature! Also see news from Nature: Epigenomics: Roadmap for regulation, Beyond the genome and Epigenome: The symphony in your cells.
2-18-2015. The Roadmap flagship paper is online at Nature: Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes. Daofeng, Rebecca, GiNell and Bo are Integrative analysis co-leads; Junchen, Nicole, Renee, Xiaoyun are Analysis and production contributors, and Ting is one of Co-principal investigators. Congratulations!!
2-18-2015. Xin’s Roadmap EpiGenome Browser paper is online at Nature Biotechnology: Epigenomic annotation of genetic variants using the Roadmap Epigenome Browser.
2-18-2015. GiNell’s paper “Intermediate DNA methylation is a conserved signature of genome regulation” is now online at Nature Communications!
2-16-2015. Nicholas Jacobs joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Nicholas!
2-4-2015. Mayank Choudhary joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Mayank!
1-26-2015. Jennifer Flynn joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Jennifer!
1-23-2015. GiNell’s paper “Intermediate DNA Methylation is a Conserved Signature of Genome Regulation” has been accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations GiNell!
1-20-2015. Deepak Purushotham joins the lab as Research Analyst. Welcome Deepak!
1-19-2015. Hyung Joo’s paper “Developmental enhancers revealed by extensive DNA methylome maps of zebrafish early embryos” has been accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations Hyung Joo!
1-12-2015. Yu He joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Yu!
1-5-2015. The Roadmap EpiGenome Browser paper has been accepted by Nature Biotechnology! Congratulations Xin!
11-25-2014. Rebecca’s paper “Regulatory network decoded from epigenomes of surface ectoderm-derived cell types” is online today: here. This is the first Roadmap Consortium companion paper.
11-24-2014. Jia Zhou successfully defended her PhD thesis “Principles of epigenome evolution”. Congratulations Dr. Zhou! Some pictures.
11-19-2014. News release on Vasavi’s paper: Exploring the genomes of mice and men (New insight can help determine when mouse models are good stand-ins for studying humans).
11-19-2014. A Mouse ENCODE Consortium companion paper studying principles of regulatory information conservation between mouse and human is published in Nature. Vasavi, Xiaoyun and Ting are co-authors. Congratulations!!
11-19-2014. The main paper of Mouse ENCODE Consortium is published in Nature. Ting and Rebecca are co-authors. Congratulations!!
11-6-2014. Our MeDIP/MRE pipeline for investigating genome-wide CpG methylation is published in Methods.
10-24-2014. Nicole joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome, Nicole!
10-19-2014. Workshop at 2014 ASHG: Epigenomic Annotation of Genetic Variants Using The Washington University Epigenome Browser.
10-1-2014. Rebecca’s paper “Regulatory Network Decoded from Epigenomes of Surface Ectoderm-Derived Cell Types” has been accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations Rebecca!
9-24-2014. Bo’s paper “Comparative DNA methylome analysis of endometrial carcinoma reveals complex and distinct deregulation of cancer promoters and enhancers” has been accepted by BMC Genomics. Congratulations Bo!
9-17-2014. We now have our 3rd R01.
9-8-2014. Wash U EpiGenome Browser featured in Bio IT World.
8-22-2014. We now have our 2nd R01.
8-20-2014. Josh Jang joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Josh!
8-18-2014. Renee joins the lab for her thesis study. Welcome back, Renee!
8-2-2014. 5th annual summer party. Some pictures.
7-28-2014. Nicole Rockweiler joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Nicole!
7-1-2014. Xin has been promoted to faculty! He is now an Instructor. Congratulations Xin!
6-10-2014. Duc Ngo joins the lab as a summer student. Welcome Duc!
6-9-2014. Kenzie Foster joins the lab as a summer student. Welcome Kenzie!
5-30-2014. Methma Udawatta joins the lab as an Amgen Scholar. Welcome Methma!
5-21-2014. Michael Stevens successfully defended his PhD thesis “On the Analysis of DNA Methylation”. Congratulations Dr. Stevens! Some pictures.
5-14-2014. Manishi Pandey joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Manishi!
4-22-2014. We have received a 4-year Research Grant from the American Cancer Society.
4-18-2014. Vasavi’s paper on TE driven evolution of transcription factor binding sites has been accepted by Genome Research. A reviewer said “it is a solid and valuable piece of work that has the potential to become a classic reference in the field of TE-mediated regulatory evolution”. Congratulations Vasavi!!
4-7-2014. Xin’s methylC Track paper is accepted by Bioinformatics. Congratulations Xin!
4-7-2014. GBM DNA methylation paper published at Genome Research: GBM DNA methylation.
3-13-2014. Vasavi Sundaram speaks at Keystone symposium about contribution of transposable elements to gene regulation. A picture.
2-5-2014. Our collaboration with Dr. Joe Costello’s group at UCSF on Glioblastoma DNA methylation “Recurrent epimutations activate gene body promoters in primary glioblastoma” has been accepted by Genome Research! Bo is co-first author on this paper, and Daofeng and Vasavi are co-authors. Congratulations!!
12-5-2013. A model-based approach to systematically analyze the epigenomic functions in modulating transcription factor-DNA binding published at Plos Computational Biology: here.
12-2-2013. Renee Sears joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Renee!
11-18-2013. Our TE DNA methylation paper is highlighted at NIH Commonfund front page: JUMPING GENES HAVE A JOB TO DO.
11-13-2013. UCSC Track Data Hub paper published at Bioinformatics: UCSC Track Data Hub.
11-1-2013. Jing Li joins the lab as an exchange student from Shanghai International Joint Cancer Institute, Second Military Medial University. Welcome Jing!
7-23-2013. mTAG-seq paper published at Nature Communications: mTAG-seq.
7-6-2013. Annual summer party. Some pictures.
6-27-2013. News and Views on our Nature Genetics paper: Hypomethylation marks enhancers within transposable elements.
6-26-2013. Two papers are online today at Genome Research: Bo’s M&M and Michael’s methylCRF.
6-18-2013. We now have our own R01.
6-13-2013. How often does one lab have TWO manuscripts accepted by Genome Research on the same day? It happened to our lab TODAY! Congratulations to Bo Zhang and Michael Stevens for beautiful work on M&M and methylCRF, and to all other co-authors!!
6-2-2013. Ronnie Fowle-Grider joins the lab for as a MSTP rotation student. Welcome Ronnie!
5-31-2013. Peter Edge joins the lab for the summer as a BioMedRAP student. Welcome Peter!
5-26-2013. TE DNA methylation paper is online at Nature Genetics: here.
5-2-2013. Mingchao’s paper on TE DNA methylation has just been accepted by Nature Genetics! Congratulations to Mingchao, and to everyone who contributed hugely to the work that led to the paper’s acceptance after Mingchao left the lab.
4-30-2013. Human Epigenome Browser paper in Nature Methods, again: here.
4-10-2013. Michael is presenting at RECOMB2013. His talk and cool pictures 1, 2.
3-29-2013. Rebecca has won the very prestigious NSF fellowship! Congratulations Rebecca!!
3-20-2013. Xin’s second Epigenome Browser paper is accepted by Nature Methods. Congratulations Xin!!
11-1-2012. Check out article in The Scientist features our Epigenome Browser: here.
11-1-2012. Spark paper in Genome Research: here.
6-21-2012. Rebecca has joined the lab for his thesis study! Welcome back, Rebecca!
6-9-2012. Mingchao’s Farewell and Welcome Party at Wang’s house. Some pictures.
6-8-2012. Comparative Epigenomics paper in Cell: here.
3-14-2012. Mingchao has been accepted by DBBS/MGG program! Congratulations Mingchao!
2-23-2012. Human Epigenome Browser in the news: here.
2-23-2012. Rebecca Lowdon joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Rebecca!
2-1-2012. Our collaboration with Dr. Sheng Zhong’s lab at UIUC on “Comparative epigenomic annotation of regulatory DNA” has just been accepted by Cell! In the work we introduced the concept of “comparative epigenomics” and suggested conserved co-localization of epigenomics marks can be used to discover regulatory elements. Our lab did the DNA methylation part of the project. Co-authors from our lab includes: Xiaoyun, Mingchao, and Ting.
1-23-2012. Madeline Keheler joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Madeline!
12-1-2011. Human Epigenome Browser paper in Nature Methods: here.
11-10-2011. Taylor Southwick joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Taylor!
9-9-2011. Xin’s Epigenome Browser paper is accepted by Nature Methods. Congratulations Xin!!
8-30-2011. Zane Goodwin joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Zane!
7-28-2011. Bo Zhang and Daofeng Li join the lab for their postdoc training. Welcome, Bo and Daofeng!!
7-16-2011. Summer Party at Wang’s house. Some pictures.
7-15-2011. Hyung Joo has joined the lab for his thesis study! Welcome back, Hyung Joo!
6-13-2011. Ava Hughes joins the lab for her summer Young Scientist Program (YSP) fellowship. Welcome, Ava!
5-9-2011. Vasavi and Brett have joined the lab for their thesis studies! Welcome back, Vasavi and Brett!!
4-23-2011. Congratulations to Junchen for being elected President of I-CAN, a Wash U International graduate student association for Career development And Networking! 任重而道远, 不要辜负了大家的希望啊~~~
4-1-2011. Our study “Epigenetic Regulation as a Mechanism Underlying Host-Bacterial Relationships in the Gut” has been funded by the “Pilot and Feasibility Program” at Digestive Disease Research Core Center at Wash U (DDRCC). This injects ~$25k into Junchen’s thesis work.
4-1-2011. Jessie wins a fellowship sponsored by NIDA R25 program to develop computational and statistical methods for analyzing human epigenomes. Congratulations, Jessie!
4-1-2011. Michael Stevens joins the lab from Computer Science department. Welcome, Michael!
2-7-2011. HyungJoo Lee joins the lab for rotation. Jessie Wang joins lab for her postdoc training. Welcome, HyungJoo and Jessie!
Jan-2011. Ting is featured as one of 24 “Tomorrow’s PIs” by Genome Technology. He is recommended by Francis Collins. See cover of the journal, and an inside page. Can you find him?
1-4-2011. Happy New Year! Ting has become “Basil O’Connor Scholar” of March of Dimes. This comes with a $150k grant over two years.
11-1-2010. Wash U Epigenome Visualization Hub (VizHub) is alive!
11-1-2010. One year birthday of the lab! We are welcoming Molly Gibson, Yuan Zhang and Ashley Quiggle for doing their rotations in the lab. We wish best luck to Brett Maricque and Vasavi Sundaram for their future rotations.
9-19-2010. Our DNA methylation comparison paper appears in Nature Biotechnology: here.
8-31-2010. Ruteja Barve joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Ruteja!
8-21-2010. End of Summer Party at Wang’s house. Some pictures.
8-20-2010. We win a one-year, $50k Developemental Research Award in Endometrial Cancer Research from Siteman Cancer Center and Endometrial Cancer SPORE. This award supports our collaboration with Dr. Paul Goodfellow on investigating the epigenomics of endometrial cancer.
8-1-2010. Mingchao Xie joins the lab as a research analyst. Sravya Tamma joins lab as a student intern and programmer. Welcome, Mingchao and Sravya!
7-29-2010. Our DNA methylation platform comparison paper is accepted by Nature Biotechnology. This is the result of a large consortium effort. Co-authors from our lab include Ting, Xin, Junchen and Kevin.
7-8-2010. Intragenic DNA methylation paper appears in Nature: here.
6-30-2010. Xin wins a fellowship sponsored by NIDA R25 program to develop computational tools for large genomics and epigenomics data integration and visualization. Congratualtions Xin! His tools will make contributions to the study of addiction. One way or another, we are all affected individuals…
6-30-2010. Vasavi Sundaram joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Vasavi!
6-30-2010. Chris and Kevin finished their rotations and moved on to their thesis labs. Chris joins Barak Cohen’s lab and Kevin joins Gautam Dantas’s lab. Both of them are within 100 yards of our lab. We all enjoyed their time in the lab, and we wish them best of luck!
6-17-2010. Our application to investigate transposable element’s role in cancer gene regulatory networks has been funded by Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation. This is our lab’s first independent grant. We will receive three years of support totalling $180,000 in direct cost.
6-2-2010. Our joint grant application (with professor Joe Costello’s lab at UCSF) to the Goldhirsh Foundation has been funded! This is our first external grant, titled “Sequencing for Genetic Mutations in Promoters via Integrative Epigenomics”. We are going to identify both genetic and epigenetic mutations in GBM (brain tumor). Junchen generated critical data (sequence coverage table) during grant preparation.
Our joint application was one of the 153 Initial Proposal Applications and among the 19 Full Proposals selected for second stage review. The Goldhirsh Foundation has approved to make 1 two-year award and 3 one-year $200,000 awards. We are the only two-year $400,000 Award Recipient. The total direct cost for our lab is $80,000 for two years.
6-1-2010. David Russo joins the lab for summer study. Welcome, David!
6-1-2010. Brett Maricque joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Brett!
6-1-2010. Michale Mahowald joins the lab for his postdoc training. Welcome Michael! Also a big congratulation to Michael for winning the W. M. Keck fellowship!
5-25-2010. Junchen Gu joins the lab for his thesis study. First graduate student of the Wang lab! Junchen is a McDonnell Scholar at McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
5-6-2010. Our ‘break out’ paper on intragenic DNA methylation is accepted by Nature. Co-authors from our lab are Chris, Xiaoyun and Ting. Maximiliaan Schillebeeckx from Rob Mitra’s lab also contributed to this project and is a co-author. Congratulations! Nice beginning for the lab.
5-1-2010. Xin Zhou joins the lab as our first postdoc. Welcome Xin!
4-26-2010. Gaurav Singhal joins the lab for rotation. Welcome, Gaurav!
4-5-2010. Kevin Forsberg and Junchen Gu join lab for rotation. Welcome, Kevin and Junchen!
3-18-2010. Chris Fiore joins the lab as the first-ever rotation student. Welcome, Chris!
3-1-2010. Ting’s review on visualizing genomes is published by Nature Methods.
1-18-2010. Xiaoyun Xing joins the lab. Welcome, Xiaoyun!
11-01-2009. Wang Lab officially launches.
