| New Baby |
June 2017 |
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Peter & Caitlin welcome baby Maura Connelly Sudmant! Born 8lbs, 20.5 inches on June 29th! |
| Fellowship Award |
June 2017 |
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Pew recognizes four MIT researchers for innovation in biomedical science Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé and cell biologist Gene-Wei Li honored as Pew Scholars; postdocs Ana Fiszbein and María Inda are named Pew Latin American Fellows. |
| New Baby |
July 2016 |
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Marvin Jens and Käthe Quecke welcome Benjamin! |
| Fellowship |
February 2012 |
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Eric Wang has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from
the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation |
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| New Baby |
January 2012 |
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Xuebing and Qifang Wu welcome Charles |
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| Prize |
December 2011 |
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Eric Wang and Thomas Wang received an award for their research from
the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation at the IDMC-8 Conference in Clearwater, FL |
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| Fellowship Award |
October 2011 |
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Reut Shalgi has been awarded a Machiah Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco |
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| Thesis |
October 2011 |
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Eric Wang successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Alternative Isoform Regulation in Myotonic
Dystrophy" |
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| Thesis |
September 2011 |
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Noah Spies successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Cross-regulation and interaction between eukaryotic gene regulatory processes" |
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August 2011 |
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Xuebing Wu was awarded an HHMI Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for International Students |
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July 2011 |
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In Sequence story features HiTS-FLIP |
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June 2011 |
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Jessica Hurt has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship from NIH |
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| Sports News |
September 2010 |
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Gene Yeo (former Burge lab member) completes Ironman triathlon. |
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| Prize |
July 2010 |
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Reut Shalgi has been awarded a Weizmann Institute Outstanding Women in Science Prize. |
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| Fellowship Award |
January 2010 |
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Reut Shalgi has been awarded an EMBO Long-term postdoctoral fellowship by the European Molecular Biology Organization. The principles of the EMBO are that projects and persons be chosen regardless of nationality, and all activities be guided by scientific excellence, coupled with usefulness to molecular biology |
| Fellowship Award |
June 2009 |
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THE CROUCHER FOUNDATION |
Wu Albert Cheng has been awarded a Croucher Foundation predoctoral fellowship. The Croucher Foundations object is to promote the standard natural sciences, technology and medicine through education and research. |
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June 2009 |
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Robert Bradley is the recipient of a Damon Runyon Cancer Research postdoctoral fellowship. The Damon Runyon fellowship supports the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers. This funding enables them to be trained by established investigators in leading research laboratories across the country. |
| Fellowship Award |
May 2009 |
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Eric Wang, a third-year MEMP student has been awarded a Poitras Fellowship from MIT; the Poitras fellowship supports predoctoral candidates engaged in biomedical engineering or biophysics research. |
| Journal Cover |
January 2009 |
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"Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs" by Robin Friedman, Kyle Farh, Christropher Burge and David Bartel was selected for the cover of the January issue of Genome Research.[Cover art by Robin Friedman and Shannon McArdel] |
| News |
November 2008 |
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Eric Wang and Rickard Sandberg led a study of alternative splicing in human
tissues using Illumina deep sequencing of mRNAs. See news stories at:
Nature News
MIT Research News
GenomeWeb Daily News
In Sequence |
| Teaching Award |
2007-2008 |
Teresa Keng Graduate Teaching Prize |
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Noah Spies (7.57 Quantative Biology for Graduate Students) was a co-recipient of the 2007-2008 Teresa Keng Graduate Teaching Prize. This award recognizes outstanding dedication and commitment to teaching. |
| Thesis Defense |
May 2008 |
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Cydney Nielsen successfully defended her thesis entitled "Mammalian gene regulation through the 3' UTR". She will return to British Columbia, Canada where she will start a postdoc at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. |
| Poster Prize |
March 2008 |
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The poster ("Widespread evasion of post-transcriptional regulation associated with proliferation." by Sandberg*, Neilson*, Sarma,Sharp and Burge) won the only Poster Prize at the Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA March 27-30, 2008. The poster presented the study of 3'UTR dynamics in activated immune cells and in proliferation. |
| Poster Prize |
2008 |
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Eric Wang is a recipient of the Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, presented at the 2008 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Annual Forum. The poster prize recognizes exemplary research currently performed by students within the HST community. |
| DOE CSGF Fellowship |
2007 |
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Robin Friedman is a recipient of a DOE CSGF graduate fellowship. The fellowship provides support and guidance to some of the nation’s best scientific graduate students, and these graduates go on to work in DOE laboratories, private industry and educational institutions. |
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| Ingvar Carlsson Award |
2007 |
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Rickard Sandberg is one of the recipients of the 2007 Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. An award for young postdocs returning to Sweden to start an independent research career |
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| Fellowship Award |
July, 2007 |
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Xinshu Xiao is a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association starting in July 2007. She is a former recipient of a Anna Fuller Fund postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Oncology. |
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| Fellowship Award |
July, 2007 |
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Razvan Nutiu will receive a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program starting in July 2007. He is a former recipient of an Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship (2006-2007). |
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| Infinite Mile Award |
April, 2007 |
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Hilda Harris-Ransom is the recipient of MIT's School of Science 2007 "Infinite Mile" Award in recognition of outstanding achievement and dedication to the department. She was nominated for this award by Professor Chris Burge. |
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| RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award |
March, 2007 |
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Zefeng Wang (former Burge lab postdoctoral fellow) won this year's RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award in recognition of his outstanding research contributions to the field of RNA biology, including his work on RNA splicing carried out in the Burge lab. Zefeng Wang is currently an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award was established to recognize the achievement of young scientists engaged in RNA research and to encourage them to pursue a career in the field of RNA. |
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| 2007 Schering-Plough Award |
April 2007 |
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Chris Burge is the recipient of the 2007 Schering-Plough Research Institute Award, awarded by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The ASBMB/Schering-Plough Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by researchers within the first 10 years since completion of the PhD. |
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| Journal Cover |
November 23, 2006 |
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"Inference of splicing regulatory activities by sequence neighborhood analysis" by Michael Stadler, Noam Shomron, Gene W Yeo, Aniket Schneider, Xinshu Xiao and Christropher B. Burge was selected for the cover of the November issue of PLoS Genetics. [Cover art by Michael Stadler] |
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| Fellowship Award |
August, 2006 |
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Razvan Nutiu joined the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow funded by a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. Razvan obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from McMaster University, Canada. |
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| Thesis Defense |
July 24, 2006 |
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Brad Friedman successfully defended his thesis, "The Evolution
and Specificity of RNA Splicing". Brad has since completed his
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and is now a postdoc in the
Maniatis Laboratory at Harvard. |
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July 7, 2006 |
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General and specific functions of exonic splicing silencers in splicing
control" by Zefeng Wang, Xinshu Xiao, Eric Van Nostrand and Chris Burge
was selected for the cover of the July issue of Molecular Cell.
[Cover art by Xinshu Xiao] |
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| CSBi Tee Shirt Design Competition |
June 2006 |
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Robin Friedman's logo wins CSBi's tee shirt design competition. |
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| Poster Prize |
June 24, 2006 |
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Burge lab postdoctoral fellows Zefeng Wang and Xinshu Xiao
won the 'Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research' prize,
sponsored by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and the
RNA Society for their poster "Diverse Functions of Exonic
Splicing Silencers" at the 2006 RNA Meeting in Seattle. |
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| New Baby |
June 17, 2006 |
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Gali Shomron was born to parents
Meytal and Noam Shomron at 4:35 AM on Saturday June 17 in Mt Auburn Hospital in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gali weighs 3317 grams (7 pounds, 2 ounce) and
measures 50 cm (20 inches). |
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| Tenure Party |
April 12, 2006 |
The Biology Department hosted a gathering at Legal Sea Foods to
celebrate Chris Burge's promotion to tenure. Burge lab members
provided the cake... [photo by Rickard Sandberg].
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| Fellowship Award |
March, 2006 |
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Cydney Nielsen received a postgraduate scholarship from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). |
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| Fellowship Award |
January, 2006 |
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Xinshu (Grace) Xiao received a postdoctoral fellowship for Molecular Oncology from the Anna Fuller Fund. |
| Fellowship Award |
November, 2005 |
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Rickard Sandberg received a 2 years postdoctral fellowship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
The fellowship also covers 3 years of salary upon returning to Sweden to support the establishment of a research group. |
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