News
2024
November: Liz McManus gave an excellent talk at the MOL department colloquium!
November: Maaike Grimm returns to the lab as a research specialist. Welcome back, Maaike!
November: Long Nguyen gave a talk at the Bioengineering Colloquium. Way to go, Long!
October: The lab goes apple picking! (photos)
October: Long Nguyen gave a talk at the Genome Engineering Seminar Series at Harvard Medical School. Great job, Long!
October: Ofer Kimchi is awarded a Branco Weiss fellowship, a 5-year transition award that will support his research on modeling RNA interactions. Congratulations, Ofer!
September: Long Nguyen and Caitlin Lamb gave wonderful talks at the MOL department retreat! Jake Marogi and Sijbren Kramer presented posters.
September: Ben Larsen gave a talk at the Options XII for the Control of Influenza conference. Nicely done, Ben!
September: Alex Bell gave a talk at the 30th International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus, Flaviviruses, and Related Viruses. Nicely done, Alex!
September: The P11 / nitrogen assimilation paper is published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all co-authors!
September: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing Cas13d-based subcellular RNA knockdown in Drosophila. Congrats to all co-authors!
September: Sijbren Kramer returns to the lab as a research specialist. Welcome back, Sijbren!
September: Zoya Gauhar heads to Stanford to pursue a PhD in Developmental Biology. We had a farewell lunch for her at Teresa’s. (photos)
August: Ofer Kimchi & Long Nguyen gave poster presentations at the CSHL meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
August: Soonwoo Hong and Dongxia Wang join the lab as a postdoctoral fellows. Welcome, Soonwoo and Dongxia!
July: We posted a bioRxiv preprint describing CODE, a new and improved method for genome editing. Congrats to all co-authors!
July: Liz McManus passed her general exam. Congratulations, Liz!
July: The lab has our third annual beach outing at Island Beach State Park! (photos)
July: Liz McManus is awarded an F30 fellowship from the NIH to support her graduate studies. Congratulations, Liz!
June: The lab is awarded our first R01 grant from NIAID, in collaboration with Linda Xie at Rutgers, Qian Gao at Fudan University, and Qingyun Liu at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill!
June: The SHINE flu paper is published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. Congrats to all coauthors!
June: Chris Guan heads to Vanderbilt to purse an MD-PhD. We had a farewell lunch for him at SC House.
May: Sijbren Kramer was awarded the Ernest F. Johnson Outstanding Senior Thesis Award from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Congratulations, Sijbren!
May: Sijbren Kramer completed his thesis in Chemical and Biological Engineering, jointly advised with Howard Stone. Congratulations, Sijbren!
May: The lab celebrated the end of the spring semester (photos)
April: MOL graduate student Kara Gillmann joins the lab. Welcome, Kara!
April: Dr. Myhrvold gave 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 passed 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 is awarded a pilot grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Kamariza lab at UCLA.
August: The lab is 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 is awarded 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 gave 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 is awarded a grant 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 gave an invited talk at the CSHL meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
August: Dr. Myhrvold gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, GA.
July: The lab is awarded 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 gave an invited talk at an NIH Workshop: CRISPR-based diagnostics for infectious diseases
May: Dr. Myhrvold gave an invited talk as part of the Columbia COVID-19 Virtual Symposium.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gave an invited talk at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
April: ECE graduate student Shruti Sharma passed 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 gave an invited talk to the Princeton Area Alumni Association.
December: MOL graduate student Jake Marogi passed his general exam. Congratulations, Jake!
November: The lab is awarded a grant from the Gates Foundation's Prometheus program.
November: Dr. Myhrvold gave a TEDx talk in Boston, MA. You can watch the full video here!
October: Dr. Myhrvold gave 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 is awarded a grant 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 gave a virtual seminar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich through the Engineering Life Initiative.
June: Dr. Myhrvold gave a keynote talk at the World Society for Virology Annual Meeting.
June: Dr. Myhrvold gave 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 is awarded a grant from the Princeton Innovation Fund, in collaboration with the Gavis Lab at Princeton.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gave an invited talk on CRISPR-based diagnostics at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting.
April: Dr. Myhrvold gave an invited talk at the Gates Foundation Learning Session on Programmable Therapies for Pandemics.
March: The lab is awarded a grant 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!