Gregory Lab news and events

The Gregory Lab moved from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester.

Sujin Kim, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Sujin received her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Boyang Shi, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Boyang received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Esteban completed his postdoctoral fellowship with us. He is starting his own lab as an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Best of luck!
The team went deep sea fishing off of Gloucester. Xin Yang had the catch of the day!

Julia completed her postdoctoral fellowship and began her new position as Scientist at Alnylum Pharmaceuticals. The group celebrated with Colombian food at El Penol. Congratulations Julia!

Carmen will be leaving us at the end of this month after over 6 years as the lab manager for the Gregory Lab. Good luck at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard!

Josef Saltz, a doctoral student at University of Massachusetts Boston has joined our lab. Welcome!
Xushen Xiong, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow in a joint capacity with Manolis Kellis' lab at MIT. Xushen earned his PhD in Epitranscriptomics at Peking University in Beijing, China.

Xin Wang, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Xin earned his PhD in Genomics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

Esteban was awarded two fellowships: Pew Latin American Fellowship with Pew Charitable Trusts and Damon Runyon Fellowship with Damon Runyon Cancer Research. Congratulations Esteban!

Jiazhi Li, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Jiazhi earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

Junho completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us and moved back to South Korea. He is Assistant Profesor of RNA Genomics in the Department of Life Science at Hanyang University.

Dr. Gregory became the first Stem Cell Biology Endowed Chair for Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics.

Mehdi was awarded a Manton Center Fellowship with Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research. Congratulations Mehdi!
Robinson completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He is now a Scientist at Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics in Watertown, MA.

Junho and Shuibin’s manuscript titled ‘mRNA circularization by METTL3-eIF3h enhances translation and promotes oncogenesis’ was published in Nature.

Jia Cui, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Jia earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Peng completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us and moved back to China. Peng is Assistant Professor in the College of Life Sciences at Peking University, and Principal Investigator in Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences.

Shuibin's manuscript titled ‘Mettl1/Wdr4-Mediated m7G tRNA Methylome Is Required for Normal mRNA Translation and Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation’ was published in Molecular Cell.

Lauren Gunasti has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Williams College majoring in Chemistry.
Amy Jia has joined our lab as a summer intern and will stay until August. She is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Esteban Orellana, PhD joined our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. Esteban earned his PhD in Biological Sciences from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Peng's manuscript entitled ‘An Intermediate Pluripotent State Controlled by MicroRNAs Is Required for the Naive-to-Primed Stem Cell Transition’ was published in Cell Stem Cell.
Shuibin completed his post-doctoral fellowship with us. He moved back to China to start his own lab at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Shuibin serves as Principal Investigator/Professor in the Center for Translational Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital.