News & Fun

Hard to believe that half of the year has passed! We deep-cleaned the lab...and then rewarded ourselves by exploring some new hangouts in Fenway.

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It's been a busy start to summer: happy birthday to Sam, a good bit of traveling and presentations by lab members, and welcome to our summer student from UNC, Jerry Wei!

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Lots of scientific and non-scientific fun at our first lab retreat organized by Vincent!

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Check out our story on a mechanism that links protein and tRNA quality control on stalled ribosomes! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-019-0211-4

Sam Sedor joins the lab for her dissertation research!

Happy that tea (whiskey) time is starting to catch on around the 4th floor of C building, and bidding farewell to Yang at the end of another great rotation!

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Congrats again to Matt, this time on a successful qualifying exam (starting a good streak for the lab)! Also celebrating Michelle's rotation and Ivana's paper acceptance!

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Back from a fun conference just in time to celebrate a paper acceptance. Congratulations, Matt!

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Happy early birthday celebrations for Mike (and Sage)!

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We ventured out the evening of the Patriots' Championship Parade for Yan's goodbye dinner - celebrating a super productive 6 months (we're sad she has to go)! Also celebrating the end of a lecture series and Ivana's grant submission. Yay!

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Welcome to BBS rotation student Yang Lim!

Happy Burns day! Impromptu whiskey gathering during recruitment weekend.

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Starting off 2019 with some pizza, candlepin bowling, a post-holidays white elephant gift exchange, and belated birthday celebrations for Yan!

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Welcome to our new rotation student, Michelle Ma!

Happy holidays!

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Proud to contribute to another exciting story from the Hegde Lab showing how the EMC (ER membrane protein complex) modulates membrane protein topology, including that of many GPCRs. Check it out here!

Lab dinner to wish good luck to Qing, who is shifting to computational biology work across the Charles, and to our rotation students Sam and Dante. Thanks for all of the hard work and fun contributions!

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Congratulations to Mike, who was selected for a fellowship from the American Heart Association! Our celebrations included some creative drink mixing.

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Happy birthday to Alex and Dante!

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Celebrations with the Brown lab!

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Our paper with the Brown Lab describing unexpected ribosome-inactivating interactions in cryo-EM datasets is online!

It was a busy and fun week at the HMS Cell Biology retreat and celebrating Matthew's birthday.

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Welcome to our new Biophysics rotation student, Dante Avalos.

Welcome to our new BBS rotation student, Samantha Sedor.

Our work on translational arrests is supported by the Vallee Foundation.