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+ | ==2024== | ||
+ | * 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 [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/yocelyn-recinos-recipient-of-the-2024-dean’s-award-for-excellence-in-research 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. | ||
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+ | ==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 [http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.21.554109v1 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 [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu department] highlighted our work in the [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/newsletters 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. | ||
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+ | ==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 [http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.02.494568v2 preprint] on structural based prediction of protein-RNA photo-crosslinking released a few weeks ago. | ||
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+ | ==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 [http://www.pnas.org/content/118/10/e2013056118 PNAS]. | ||
+ | * 02/01/2021. Our recent work on neuronal cell type-specific regulation is now on [http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.428525v1 bioRiv]. | ||
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+ | ==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. [http://cancer.columbia.edu/pilot-grants-advance-innovative-precision-medicine-research news release]. | ||
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+ | ==2019== | ||
+ | * 06/23/2019. Our mCross paper is now published in [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276519300929?dgcid=author Molecular Cell]. see [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/novel-computational-tool-models-rna-binding-specificity-provides-better-understanding-of-gene 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 [http://twitter.com/chaolinzhang/status/1111669605620170753 twitter]! | ||
+ | * 01/24/2019. "The splicing code goes deep" - A preview on splicing is published in [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867419300467?dgcid=author Cell]. | ||
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+ | ==2018== | ||
+ | * 10/08/2018. Congratulate Huijuan Feng and Suying Bao for winning the poster award in Systems Biology departmental retreat! | ||
+ | * 09/25/2018. A [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40484-018-0152-7 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 [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/postdoc-suying-bao-named-precision-medicine-fellow news] here. | ||
+ | * 07/20/2018. Our [http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XPn83vVUP60qL LIN28/let-7 paper] is out in Molecular Cell as the cover story in the July 19 issue. See also [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/new-insights-on-how-the-reprogramming-factor-lin28-regulates-its-targets news release] from our department. | ||
+ | * 07/10/2018. Chaolin gave an invited speech at [https://irbgroup.org/rna-sig-18/speakers.html 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 [http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04559-0 here]. | ||
+ | * 05/25/2018. [[CTK|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 [http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30023-0 Neuron]. See also [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/research-unveils-a-developmental-splicing-program-controlling-neuronal-maturation-and press release]. | ||
+ | * 01/25/2018. Our [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.23147/epdf D-score] is incorporated by SFARI as one of the Gene Score metrics to prioritize autism genes. See SFARI news [http://www.sfari.org/2017/12/14/third-party-gene-scores-added-to-sfari-gene/ here]. | ||
* 01/16/2018. We released the preprint of our neurodevelopmental splicing code paper. See [http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/14/247601 bioRxiv]. | * 01/16/2018. We released the preprint of our neurodevelopmental splicing code paper. See [http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/14/247601 bioRxiv]. | ||
− | * 01/16/ | + | * 01/16/2018. Congratulations to Sebastien Weyn, on his successful [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=ms.c.eJw1yskJADAIBMCOwup69t9YiMHnwBCWSgHpJtmHz9oaUenEN~_GAolzWMr9qf4ybF3iSD9Y~-.bps.a.304314830061673.1073741841.276353369524486&type=3 defense for his PhD (actually a month ago)] - two of first two from the Zhang lab. |
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+ | ==2017== | ||
* 12/27/2017. The Zhang lab won an NIH R01 award to study how genetic variation affects RNA regulation. | * 12/27/2017. The Zhang lab won an NIH R01 award to study how genetic variation affects RNA regulation. | ||
− | * 09/23/2017. Congratulations | + | * 09/23/2017. Congratulations to Sebastien Weyn, student in the lab, for winning [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/department-honors-outstanding-young-investigators-at-annual-retreat 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) | * 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 | + | * 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. | * 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 [[CTK | CLIP Tool Kit]]. | * 04/09/2017. We got an R03 grant from NIH/NHGRI to continue the development of the [[CTK | CLIP Tool Kit]]. | ||
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* 02/15/2017. Small exons with big roles. See our most recent [http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WiresArticle/wisId-WRNA1418.html review] on WIRES RNA. | * 02/15/2017. Small exons with big roles. See our most recent [http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WiresArticle/wisId-WRNA1418.html review] on WIRES RNA. | ||
* 02/12/2017. The autism mutation paper is profiled by [https://spectrumnews.org/news/toolbox/method-reads-brain-cell-signatures-reveal-risky-mutations/ Spectrum News]. | * 02/12/2017. The autism mutation paper is profiled by [https://spectrumnews.org/news/toolbox/method-reads-brain-cell-signatures-reveal-risky-mutations/ Spectrum News]. | ||
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+ | ==2016== | ||
* 12/13/2016. The autism mutation paper is profiled by [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/damages-a-method-for-predicting-rare-disease-risk-genes our department]. See [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.23147/full preprint]. | * 12/13/2016. The autism mutation paper is profiled by [http://systemsbiology.columbia.edu/news/damages-a-method-for-predicting-rare-disease-risk-genes our department]. See [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.23147/full preprint]. | ||
* 11/14/2016. The autism mutation paper is accepted by Human Mutation. See [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.23147/full preprint]. | * 11/14/2016. The autism mutation paper is accepted by Human Mutation. See [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.23147/full preprint]. | ||
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* 03/01/2016. Congratulate Ankeeta Shah on winning the 2016 SURF/Amgen 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 | * 02/16/2016. Our R21 proposal received a 4% at the NMG study section | ||
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+ | ==2015== | ||
* 09/30/2015. mRIN paper highlighted by Nature Methods | * 09/30/2015. mRIN paper highlighted by Nature Methods | ||
* 08/03/2105. mRIN paper published on Nature Communications | * 08/03/2105. mRIN paper published on Nature Communications | ||
* 06/19/2105. Chaolin Zhang received an R01 award from NIH/NINDS | * 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 | * 03/06/2015. Discovery of new AS exons in the brain published on PNAS | ||
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+ | ==2014== | ||
* 07/29/2014. Chaolin Zhang received a 3 year Research Award from Simons Foundation | * 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 | * 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 | * 01/10/2014. Step by step guide of CIMS analysis published on Nature Protocols | ||
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+ | ==2013== | ||
* 09/24/2013. Chaolin Zhang received an Explorer Award from Simons Foundation | * 09/24/2013. Chaolin Zhang received an Explorer Award from Simons Foundation | ||
* 04/26/2013. mCarts paper published on NAR | * 04/26/2013. mCarts paper published on NAR | ||
* 04/26/2013. OLego paper published on NAR | * 04/26/2013. OLego paper published on NAR |
Latest revision as of 10:24, 26 March 2024
2024
- 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