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Cotney Lab Among 5 Labs at UConn Health/JAXGM awarded MIRA
The Cotney lab was featured in UConn Today along with other labs from UConn Health and JAXGM that were recently awarded R35 MIRA grants. Congrats to all these great labs! Looking forward to great science from all in the New Year!

We Escaped! Holiday outing for Cotney and Pinter Labs
The Cotney and Pinter Labs enjoyed lunch at Bar Taco West Hartford and a great team building experience at Mission Escape Games West Hartford . We escaped Dr. Jekyll’s Hideout without any hints and 12:35 to spare! Great work everyone!
Andrea wins poster prize at retreat!
Congrats to Andrea on winning the top student poster at the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences annual retreat! The retreat was held December 6th at the Farmington Marriott. Talks by JAXGM‘s Bill Skarnes, GGS’s Sandra Garrett, and graduate student Emaly Peicuch, posters by postdocs and graduate students, and interactions amongst members of UConn Health and JAXGM made for an excellent retreat. Thanks to Isolde Bates for all your work organizing the event.
Andrea passes quals!
First Preprint from the Cotney Lab on Biorxiv!
The first preprint from the Cotney lab on Human Craniofacial Epigenomics is out now on Biorxiv.org. Comments and suggestions are welcomed!
Stefan Blankvoort visiting the lab from Norway
Dr. Stefan Blankvoort from the lab of Dr. Cliff Kentros at Trondheim University visits the Cotney lab to learn ChIP-Seq in small amounts of brain tissue. He will be visiting during the months of April and May.
Jennifer VanOudenhove, PhD joins the lab!
Dr. VanOudenhove joins the Cotney lab after completing her PhD with Dr. Gary Stein at UMass Medical School and the University of Vermont Medical School.
Graduate Student Andrea Wilderman Joins the Lab!
Following first year rotations Andrea Wilderman has joined the lab to do her thesis research.
Dr. Cotney receives R35 MIRA for ESI!
Dr. Justin Cotney awarded a new five-year, $1,993,750, grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his project entitled: “Unraveling mechanisms of genome regulation to understand and improve human health”.
More details on the grant can be found on NIH Reporter.