Highlights in 2026

October 2026

We had a wonderful lab outing to World's End, enjoying the beautiful fall foliage, followed by a delicious lunch at Ironwood in Hingham with the Khoshkhoo Lab.

September 2026

August was elected to the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD Program.

September 2026

We gathered for a lab lunch at Northeast Eating Club to welcome our three new postdocs—Weiwei, Isabella, and Chao—and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together!

July 2026

We had a wonderful joint lab retreat with the Lee Lab in Waterville Valley, NH, where we enjoyed engaging science, delicious BBQ, and fun activities together!

June 2026

Yingxi has been awarded the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society to support her pioneering research on somatic mutations in epilepsy. Well deserved!

May 2026

August gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference: Single-Cell Genomics in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, on the use of cutting-edge sequencing technologies to study somatic mutations in Alzheimer’s disease.

May 2026

Our Duplex-Indel work led by Lan has been published in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to Lan, Bowen, and Shulin!

April 2026

Farewell dinner for Zheming and Jingtong at Gyu-Kaku Brookline. Wishing both of them the very best as they begin their next chapter!

April 2026

August’s work on microglial somatic mutation in Alzheimer’s disease has been published in Cell. Congratulations to everyone in the lab who contributed to this project!

April 2026

August presented a talk on somatic mutations in Alzheimer’s disease at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Neuroimmunology in Health and Disease, held in Suzhou, China.

March 2026

Winter is coming to an end, and we celebrated the arrival of spring with a lab dinner at Da Long Yi Hot Pot.

January 2026

We kicked off 2026 with a joint lab dinner with the Lee lab at Korean Garden! Here’s to another fruitful year for everyone!

January 2026

August and Alana's RNA-MosaicHunter work has been published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to August and Alana!