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Latest revision as of 15:03, 17 October 2024

2024

• 09/25/2024. Congrats Ruchika for wining the best poster award during the annual department retreat!
• 09/16/2024. Welcome Cynthia to rotate in the Zhang lab. Cynthia will join an exciting project to develop tools for programmable RNA targeting!
• 08/09/2024. Our DeltaSplice paper is officially out in Genome Research.
• 07/08/2024. Welcome Amanda Lopez-Ramirez (SRP program), Camari Abercrombie (CADRE program), and Bryan Shi for joining us in the summer. Camari will actually work with us as a post-bac in the next two years!
• 07/08/2024. Welcome Tianji Yu, who officially joined the Zhang lab - Tianji is our 5th graduate student!
• 06/27/2024. Chaolin joined Harris Wang, interim department chair, to attend the "Meet the Faculty" panel discussion with DSB trainees.
• 06/26/2024. We are one of the four teams winning the 2024 Columbia Precision Medicine Joint Pilot grant. Thank Roy and Diana Vagelos for the generous support!
• 06/21/2024. Preprint release - Dan Moakley (recent graduate)'s PhD work to infer neuron type-specific splicing-regulatory networks from single-cell RNA-seq transcriptome: http://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.13.597128.
• 06/21/2024. Our MAPT/tau spllcing evolutoin paper is officially out in Cell Genomics. http://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(24)00129-0
• 03/26/2024. Preprint release - DeltaSplice for quantitative prediction of splicing and splicing-altering mutations: http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586363v1
• 03/22/2024. Congrats Yocelyn Recinos, recent graduate from the lab, for winning the 2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research.
• 03/13/2024. Our PxR3D-map paper is officially out in Nature Communications. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46429-y
• 02/20/2024. Welcome Shane Chu and Ye Wang, who joined the Zhang lab as postdoc recently.

2023

• 11/22/2023. Congrats Dan Moakley for successfully defending the PhD thesis on neuron type-specific alternative splicing regulation!
• 10/17/2023. Congrats Yocelyn Recinos for winning the poster award at Systems Biology department retreat!
• 10/02/2023. (Belated news) We released our preprint on SpliceRUSH, a high-throughput screening method for mapping both proximal and distal splicing-regulatory elements in native sequences. Congrats Yocelyn and team!
• 10/02/2023. (Belated news) Welcome new PhD students Albertine Albertine Neal, Fahad Paryani, and Tianji Yu for rotating in the lab!
• 07/17/2023. Welcome Madeline Scalon, Vivian Coraci, and Matthew Yuan for joining the lab as visiting high school students to perform their summer research!
• 07/14/2023. Welcome Ruchika for starting her postdoc in the lab!
• 06/08/2023. Congrats to Brian Joseph, joint postdoc in Zhang and Wichterle labs, for winning the prestigious postdoc fellowship from New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute: http://nyscf.org/programs/extramural-grants/fellowship-program/2023fellowshipclass/
• 01/23/2023. Our department highlighted our work in the annual news letter.
• 06/01/2023. Welcome Shah Alam for starting his postdoc in the lab!
• 05/10/2023. Congrats Yocelyn Recinos for her successful PhD thesis defense!
• 01/23/2023. We are one of the three winners of the Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award in a national competition.

2022

• 09/28/2022. The Zhang lab received a prestigious Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) from NIH/NIGMS and R56 award from NHGRI.
• 09/28/2022. Welcome Yow-Tyng (Tim) Yeh to join the lab as a postdoc!
• 09/16/2022. The Zhang lab hold annual BBQ to celebrate 10th anniversary and Melissa Campbell's new faculty position.
• 07/14/2022. Welcome Paola Rincheti and Suvrajit Maji, who started as postdoc in the lab recently.
• 07/06/2022. This is belated news. Check out our preprint on structural based prediction of protein-RNA photo-crosslinking released a few weeks ago.

2021

• 11/11/2021. 2021 is our turnover year - We sent best wishes to two postdocs embarking the next chapter of their careers and welcomed two new postdocs (so far)!
• 04/13/2021. Congrats Melissa McKenzie, postdoc in the lab, on winning the NIH K99 award.
• 03/10/2021. Our recent work on neuronal cell type-specific regulation is now officially on PNAS.
• 02/01/2021. Our recent work on neuronal cell type-specific regulation is now on bioRiv.

2020

• 07/15/2020. We are one of the winners of the Columbia Precision Medicine Pilot Grants. With this seed fund, we will work on a high-throughput screening approach of splicing-regulatory elements. news release.

2019

• 06/23/2019. Our mCross paper is now published in Molecular Cell. see news release.
• 04/09/2019. Congrats Yocelyn Recinos, graduate student in the lab, for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• 04/02/2019. Chaolin is officially approved for tenure at Columbia. Congratulate him on twitter!
• 01/24/2019. "The splicing code goes deep" - A preview on splicing is published in Cell.

2018

• 10/08/2018. Congratulate Huijuan Feng and Suying Bao for winning the poster award in Systems Biology departmental retreat!
• 09/25/2018. A special issue on RNA processing and regulation co-edited by Chaolin Zhang is out in Quantitative Biology.
• 08/06/2018. Congratulations to Suying Bao, postdoc in the lab, on being named as Precision Medicine Research Fellow. Read the news here.
• 07/20/2018. Our LIN28/let-7 paper is out in Molecular Cell as the cover story in the July 19 issue. See also news release from our department.
• 07/10/2018. Chaolin gave an invited speech at ISMB 2018.
• 06/30/2018. We welcome two new graduate students, Dan and Yocelyn, to join the Zhang lab!
• 06/06/2018. Our developmental splicing paper is now online in Nature Communications here.
• 05/25/2018. CLIP Tool Kit (CTK) v1.0.8 is now released. This is a major update with various improvement.
• 05/10/2018. Sebastien Weyn, a recent graduate, is [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/phd-graduate-sebastien-weyn-wins-coan-prize-

for-exceptional-research spotlighted] on our departmental website.

• 04/17/2018. Congratulate Sebastien Weyn, a recent graduate, to be a recipient of the 2018 Titus M Coan Prize for Excellence in Research.
• 04/13/2018. Congratulate Lekha Yesantharao for winning the SURF grant from the Simons Program for Undergraduate Summer Research.
• 03/29/2018. Congratulate Joy Pai, a former undergraduate student working in the lab, for starting her graduate study at Stanford University this coming fall!
• 02/01/2018. Our new Rbfox paper is now online in Neuron. See also press release.
• 01/25/2018. Our D-score is incorporated by SFARI as one of the Gene Score metrics to prioritize autism genes. See SFARI news here.
• 01/16/2018. We released the preprint of our neurodevelopmental splicing code paper. See bioRxiv.
• 01/16/2018. Congratulations to Sebastien Weyn, on his successful defense for his PhD (actually a month ago) - two of first two from the Zhang lab.

2017

• 12/27/2017. The Zhang lab won an NIH R01 award to study how genetic variation affects RNA regulation.
• 09/23/2017. Congratulations to Sebastien Weyn, student in the lab, for winning the best poster award in Systems Biology retreat.
• 06/08/2017. Congratulations on Martin Jacko's successful PhD thesis defense - first graduate student in the Zhang lab (joint with Wichterle lab)
• 05/17/2017. Congratulations to Ankeeta Shah for being accepted by the Graduate Program in Molecular Biosciences at U Chicago.
• 05/02/2017. Justin Wong won Simons Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Program award to work in the lab.
• 04/09/2017. We got an R03 grant from NIH/NHGRI to continue the development of the CLIP Tool Kit.
• 03/07/2017. Our microexon review featured by Advanced Science News.
• 02/15/2017. Small exons with big roles. See our most recent review on WIRES RNA.
• 02/12/2017. The autism mutation paper is profiled by Spectrum News.

2016

• 12/13/2016. The autism mutation paper is profiled by our department. See preprint.
• 11/14/2016. The autism mutation paper is accepted by Human Mutation. See preprint.
• 10/30/2016. The CLIP Tool Kit (CTK) paper is published on Bioinformatics. See documentation here.
• 10/30/2016. Welcome our most recent lab member Andrew Arditi!
• 06/30/2016. The Zhang lab gave one oral and two poster presentations at the 2016 RNA society meeting in Kyoto.
• 06/23/2016. Congratulate Kevin for getting into the UCSF MD program!
• 06/23/2016. Welcome Xiaojian, Ying, Jiaye for joining the lab!
• 05/10/2016. Congratulate the Zhang lab on winning an R21 award from NIH/NINDS on study of neuronal RNA splicing.
• 03/31/2016. Congratulate Ankeeta Shah on winning the prestigious Goldwater scholarship!
• 03/15/2016. A tutorial on how to predict RBP motif sites using mCarts.
• 03/11/2016. Congratulate Martin Jacko on winning 2016 RNA Society Meeting (Kyoto Japan) travel fellowship!
• 03/01/2016. Congratulate Ankeeta Shah on winning the 2016 SURF/Amgen fellowship!
• 02/16/2016. Our R21 proposal received a 4% at the NMG study section

2015

• 09/30/2015. mRIN paper highlighted by Nature Methods
• 08/03/2105. mRIN paper published on Nature Communications
• 06/19/2105. Chaolin Zhang received an R01 award from NIH/NINDS
• 03/06/2015. Discovery of new AS exons in the brain published on PNAS

2014

• 07/29/2014. Chaolin Zhang received a 3 year Research Award from Simons Foundation
• 03/06/2014. Rbfox CLIP and integrative modeling paper published on Cell Reports
• 01/10/2014. Step by step guide of CIMS analysis published on Nature Protocols

2013

• 09/24/2013. Chaolin Zhang received an Explorer Award from Simons Foundation
• 04/26/2013. mCarts paper published on NAR
• 04/26/2013. OLego paper published on NAR