Lab News

  • 2023.5 Our Cas13 intrinsic RNA targeting manuscript is accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations to our wonderful lab members (Xiaolong, Lumen) and great collaborators (Teng Fei, Zexu Li, Zihan Li and other Fei lab members)!
  • 2023.4 Daniall Masood (IBS rotation student) and Li-Ting Wang (BMM master student) joined our lab. Welcome Daniall and Li-Ting!
  • 2023.4 The R01 proposal with Hanrui Zhang (Columbia University) and Edoardo Marcora (Mount Sinai) was awarded by NHLBL (R01HL168174). Look forward to having more exciting science!
  • 2023.2 Our DeepCas13 paper is published in Nature Communications online.
  • 2023.2 Congratulations to Pamela Chansky on receiving the Cosmos Club Foundation Scholars Awards!
  • 2022.12 Our collaboration paper on macrophage CRISPR screens is accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations to our collaborators (Hanrui Zhang, Columbia University)!
  • 2022.11 Our DeepCas13 manuscript is accepted by Nature Communications! Congratulations to the team (esp. Xiaolong Cheng) and our great collaborators, Teng Fei (and Zexu Li)!
  • 2022.10 Our STM HIV CRISPR screening paper is online.
  • 2022.8 Junyan (Jeremy) Wu and Quan Yuan, two master students from GWU Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, joined us. Welcome Jeremy and Quan!
  • 2022.7 Our collaboration paper on latent HIV CRISPR screens is accepted by Science Translational Medicine. Congratulations to the team (esp. Bicna Song) and our great collaborators at Robert Siliciano lab (Johns Hopkins University)!
  • 2022.6 Pamela Chansky joined us as a Ph.D. student. Welcome (again) Pamela!
  • 2022.5 Our collaboration manuscript (with Teng Fei group, Northeastern University, China) on intrinsic Cas13 targets is online at bioRxiv. Great work to the team in our lab and the collaborator lab!
  • 2022.3 Our lab is moving to the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus (CNRIC)!
  • 2022.2 Our collaboration paper (with Dr. Yarui Diao lab at Duke University) is published in Molecular Cell. Congratulations to our lab alumni Ruocheng Shan!
  • 2022.2 The high-content CRISPR screening review paper is online at Nature Reviews Methods Primers. Congratulations to Bicna and our great collaborator team!
  • 2022.1 Daniel Zheng and Rod Rahmjoo joined as interns. Welcome!
  • 2022.1 The collaboration paper (with X. Shirley Liu, Myles Brown and Kexin Xu) on EZH2 inhibitor is published in PNAS.
  • 2021.12 The review manuscript of CRISPR screening (working with Christopher Bock and many other groups around the world) was accepted in Nature Reviews Methods Primers. Congratulations!
  • 2021.9 The collaboration paper (with X. Shirley Liu group) on in vivo CRISPR screens is published in Cell. Great work to the entire Liu lab team!
  • 2021.9 We enjoyed our happy hour in person, after 18 months!
  • 2021.9 Our DeepCas13 manuscript preprint is now online at bioRxiv with companion website DeepCas13. Great work to the team and the collaborators (Prof. Teng Fei)!
  • 2021.5 Congratulations to the three GWU master students who will go to the PhD programs this fall: Yuan Gao (U Maryland), Ruocheng Shan (GWU) and Wei Shao (UCI)!
  • 2021.4 Our lab received a second round of support from COVID-19 HPC Consortium to identify potential drug targets of SARS-COV-2.
  • 2021.2 We received a pilot grant from our center for Genetic Medicine Research to study Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) using CRISPR screens! This is going to be a collaboration project with Dr. Nino Gustavo and Dr. Jyoti Jaiswal within Children’s National.
  • 2021.2 Our collaboration paper with Teng Fei lab on SARS-COV-2 drug repurposing is accepted by iScience. Congratulations to Xiaolong, Qing, Zexu and Teng!

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