News
2024
April: MOL graduate student Kara Gillman joins the lab. Welcome, Kara!
April: Dr. Myhrvold gives a joint talk with AJ te Velthuis at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science workshop: Determinants and dynamics of viral emergence and establishment in human populations.
March: Jake Marogi gave an excellent talk at the MOL department colloquium!
February: Ofer Kimchi presented posters at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting and at the 11th Annual Winter q-bio meeting.
2023
December: The lab has our first annual holiday party! (photos)
December: MOL graduate student Alex Bell passes her general exam. Congratulations, Alex!
November: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing the role of a P. aeruginosa small RNA (P11) and nitrogen metabolism in influencing C. elegans behavior. Congratulations to all co-authors!
November: Visiting Master's student Maaike Grimm joins the lab, co-mentored with AJ te Velthuis. Welcome, Maaike!
November: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing Cas13 assays for directly quantifying mini viral RNAs produced during influenza infection. Congratulations to all co-authors!
October: The lab co-hosted a pumpkin decorating with the 4th floor Moffett/Shultz community! (photos)
October: Caitlin Lamb receives a Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant, enabling her to spend 3 months in Germany. Congrats, Caitlin!
October: Ben Larsen gave a fantastic talk at the MOL department retreat. Jake Marogi and Zoya Gauhar presented posters as well!
October: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing the effects of RNA secondary structure on Cas13 activity. Congratulations to all co-authors!
September: We posted a medRxiv preprint describing two new bead-based CRISPR diagnostic technologies, bbLuc and bbCARMEN. Congratulations to all co-authors!
September: The lab was awarded a pilot grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Kamariza lab at UCLA.
August: The lab was awarded a pilot grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Xie lab at Rutgers and with collaborators in Uganda.
August: Brian Kang and Owen Dunkley head to Stanford to pursue PhDs in Bioengineering! We had a farewell lunch for them at Teresa’s. (photos)
August: Ben Larsen gives a talk, and Brian Kang & Owen Dunkley present posters at the CSHL meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. (photos)
August: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing qCARMEN, a method for multiplexed CRISPR-based quantification of gene expression. Congratulations to all co-authors!
August: Rutgers/Princeton MD-PhD student Liz McManus joins the lab, co-mentored with Liz Gavis. Welcome, Liz!
July: The lab receives a grant from the Princeton Catalysis Initiative, in collaboration with the Stone lab at Princeton.
July: The lab has our second annual beach outing at Island Beach State Park! (photos)
July: PBI2 distinguished postdoctoral scholar Long Nguyen joins the lab, co-mentored with Jared Toettcher. Welcome, Long!
July: The lab goes berry picking - it was a very fruitful outing! (photos)
July: Our commentary on Cas13-based antivirals is published in EMBO Molecular Medicine. Congratulations, Shruti!
June: Research Specialist Yujia Huang joins the lab. Welcome, Yujia!
June: Caitlin Lamb gives a talk at the American Society for Virology (ASV) Annual Meeting in Athens, GA. (photos)
June: We posted a medRxiv preprint on using SHINE for influenza detection and genotyping. Congratulations to all co-authors!
May: Fatinah Albeez (CBE) completes her senior thesis and graduates. Congratulations! Fatinah will be joining the Sabeti Lab as a research assistant.
May: Our review on multiplexed CRISPR-based diagnostics is published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations, Caitlin and Brian!
May: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited seminar at the Public Health Research Institute at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ.
April: MOL graduate student Alex Bell joins the lab. Welcome, Alex!
March: MOL graduate student Caitlin Lamb was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations, Caitlin!
February: Dr. Myhrvold is invited to serve as a reviewer on an NIH study section on CRISPR-based nucleic acid detection.
2022
December: Dr. Myhrvold discusses the lab’s research in an episode of the Daily Princetonian’s science podcast, “Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond.” You can listen to the full episode here!
December: MOL graduate students Caitlin Lamb and Ben Larsen pass their general exams. Congratulations, Caitlin and Ben!
November: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at The Scientist Symposium on the long-term lessons of the Coronavirus pandemic. You can watch the full video here!
November: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at Labroots CRISPR 2022.
October: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the Keystone Symposia: COVID and Beyond: Novel Approaches to Global Infectious Diseases in Brussels, Belgium.
September: The lab receives funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
August: Our work on SHINE v2 is featured on the Molecular Biology department website.
August: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the CSHL meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
August: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, GA.
July: The lab receives a grant from the Princeton Catalysis Initiative, in collaboration with the Kahn lab at Princeton.
July: The lab has our first annual beach outing to Island Beach State Park! (photos)
June: Chris Guan and Brian Kang join the lab full-time as research specialists. Welcome back, Brian and Chris!
June: Research specialist Zoya Gauhar joins the lab, co-mentored with Liz Gavis. Welcome, Zoya!
May: Chris Guan (MOL) and Brian Kang (CBE) complete their senior theses and graduate. Congratulations!
May: The SHINE v2 paper is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congrats to all co-authors!
May: The lab receives an R21 grant from NIAID, in collaboration with the Xie and Banada labs at Rutgers.
May: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at an NIH Workshop: CRISPR-based diagnostics for infectious diseases
May: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk as part of the Columbia COVID-19 Virtual Symposium.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
April: ECE graduate student Shruti Sharma passes her general exams. Congratulations!
April: MOL graduate students Caitlin Lamb and Ben Larsen join the lab, both co-mentored with AJ te Velthuis. Welcome, Caitlin and Ben!
March: The ADAPT paper is published in Nature Biotechnology. Congrats to all co-authors!
February: The mCARMEN paper is published in Nature Medicine. Congrats to all co-authors!
January: Research Specialist Owen Dunkley joins the lab. Welcome, Owen!
2021
December: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk to the Princeton Area Alumni Association.
December: MOL graduate student Jake Marogi passed his general exam. Congratulations, Jake!
November: The lab receives a pilot award from the Gates Foundation's Prometheus program.
November: Dr. Myhrvold gives a TEDx talk in Boston, MA. You can watch the full video here!
October: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the CRISPR Technologies Meeting.
September: The lab goes kayaking! (photos)
September: Fearless faculty assistant Luke Soucy joins the lab!
September: The lab receives an award from the National Philanthropic Trust, in collaboration with the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
August: The lab receives a Translational Pilot Project Grant though the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJACTS), in collaboration with the Xie and Banada labs at Rutgers.
July: Dr. Myhrvold gives a virtual seminar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich through the Engineering Life Initiative.
June: Dr. Myhrvold gives a keynote talk at the World Society for Virology Annual Meeting.
June: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at an NIH Workshop: Applications of CRISPR-Cas and Similar Techniques for Established and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
June: MOL graduate student Jacob Marogi officially joins the lab, co-mentored with Zemer Gitai.
May: The lab receives a pilot award from the Princeton Innovation Fund, in collaboration with the Gavis Lab at Princeton.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk on CRISPR-based diagnostics at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gives an invited talk at the Gates Foundation Learning Session on Programmable Therapies for Pandemics.
March: The lab receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), in collaboration with the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
February: ECE graduate student Shruti Sharma joins the lab, co-mentored with Antoine Kahn.
January: Chloe Boehm (research specialist), Michelle Grunberg (research specialist), Gaeun Kim (lab assistant), and Lillia Ryazanov (lab manager) join the lab. Welcome, Chloe, Michelle, Gaeun, and Lillia!
January: The Myhrvold Lab is officially opens its doors on January 4, 2021!