New enamel knot preprint out now!

Posted on 2021-06-15 by Winchester, Emma

Check out our newest preprint on biorxiv, about our recent work in the single cell profiling of the enamel knot!

For further exploration, visit our data page.

New enamel knot preprint out now!

Posted on 2021-06-15 by Winchester, Emma

Check out our newest preprint on biorxiv, about our recent work in the single cell profiling of the enamel knot!

For further exploration, visit our data page.

Emma Wentworth Winchester Receives ISG Lightning Talk Award

Posted on 2021-06-09 by Winchester, Emma

Lab member Emma Wentworth Winchester has received the award for Best Lightning Talk at the 2021 Annual UConn Institute of Systems Genomics Networking Event, for her work on the role of cell-type specific regulatory regions in orofacial clefting and normal craniofacial variation. Congratulations Emma! You can watch her talk at this link.

Emma Wentworth Winchester receives F30 award

Posted on 2021-04-29 by jcotney

Congratulations to Emma on her newly awarded F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for DMD/PhD students. Emma will be investigating the role of the noncoding genome in risk for developing caries and other oral diseases.

UConn Researcher Identifies Genetic Elements Involved in Heart Development

Posted on 2020-11-062020-11-06 by jcotney

Coverage of our latest work in the developing heart in UConn Today:

UConn Researcher Identifies Genetic Elements Involved in Heart Development

Congrats Emma!

Posted on 2020-10-012020-10-05 by jcotney

Emma successfully completed her qualifying exam and is now officially a DMD/PhD Candidate at UConn Health. Emma also got married this summer. Double congrats and hope to celebrate in person soon!

New Paper out in Circulation Research

Posted on 2020-08-072020-10-05 by jcotney

The Cotney lab, lead by Dr. Jennifer VanOudenhove and graduate student Tara Yankee, published a paper in Circulation Research describing chromatin and gene expression dynamics during human heart organogenesis. Check out our data on our website, our track hub on the UCSC Genome Browser, and read the paper at Circulation Research. Congrats all!

Congrats Nagham!

Posted on 2020-05-252020-10-05 by jcotney

Nagham successfully completed here qualifying exam and is no officially a PhD Candidate in the Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC at UConn Health. Great job Nagham!

Researchers from UConn have received a nearly $3 million NIH grant

Posted on 2019-12-23 by Nicole

https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/turning-silenced-genes-prader-willi-research/

News coverage of R01 in UConn Today

Posted on 2019-08-232020-10-05 by jcotney

https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/craniofacial-birth-defects-regulation-not-genes/