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.
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Emma Wentworth Winchester receives F30 award
UConn Researcher Identifies Genetic Elements Involved in Heart Development
Coverage of our latest work in the developing heart in UConn Today:
UConn Researcher Identifies Genetic Elements Involved in Heart Development
Congrats Emma!
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
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!
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
https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/turning-silenced-genes-prader-willi-research/
News coverage of R01 in UConn Today
https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/craniofacial-birth-defects-regulation-not-genes/
Welcome Emma and Nagham!
The Cotney lab welcomes Emma Wentworth and Nagham Khouri Farah. Nagham will be jointly advised by Dr. James Li.
Congrats Tara!
Tara passed her qualifying exam and is now officially a PhD Candidate in the Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC at UConn Health. Great job Tara!