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LAB NEWS (as of 3/2017)

• Arjun Sai Krishnan (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for his doctoral work, jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto
• Lily Kuhn (Barnard College) joins the lab as a research assistant, working with Natanael Spisak
• Lili Babin (University of Paris) visits the lab for five months, working with Hannah Munby
• Anastasia Stolyarova joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher, after a PhD at Skoltech in Moscow
• Naimi Okami (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a winter rotation
• Arjun Sai Krishnan (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a fall rotation
• Allen Dinh (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a fall rotation
• Magnus Nordborg will spend a sabbatical in the lab from Oct 2022 to July 2023
• Natanael Spisak joins the lab as a postdoc researcher after a PhD at ENS in Paris
• Vanesa Getseva (Biological Sciences) joins the group as a PhD student
• Akanksha Bhat (Biological Sciences) joins the group as a PhD student, jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto
• Felix Wu leaves the lab to join the group of Robin Hopkins at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher
• Djivan Prentout joins the lab, from the Université de Lyon, where he worked on sex chromosome evolution in plants
• Ipsita Agarwal leaves the lab to join the group of Simon Myers at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher
• Vanesa Getseva (Biological Sciences) joins the group for a rotation
• Akanksha Bhat (Biological Sciences) joins the group for a rotation
• Anna Yoney awarded a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship for her work in the lab of Kristin Baldwin
• Ziqing Pan (Biological Sciences) joins the group for a rotation
• Hannah Munby (Biological Sciences) joins the lab as a graduate student

• Ipsita Agarwal awarded the annual John S. Newberry Prize from the Biological Sciences dept. for her PhD work
• Zach Fuller leaves the lab to start a position as a Statistical Geneticist at 23&me in July 2021
• Anna Yoney will be supported by a Research Initiative in Science and Engineering grant from Columbia University for her postdoctoral work
• Marc de Manuel awarded a Human Frontiers Science Program postdoctoral grant
• Ben Wesley (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a rotation
• Arbel Harpak starts a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin in April 2021
• Hannah Munby (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a rotation
• Anna Yoney starts a joint postdoc in Kristin Baldwin‘s group and the lab in Oct 2020, after a PhD at Rockefeller University.
• Nooriel Banayan (Biological Sciences) joins the lab for a rotation
• Former postdoc Eduardo Amorim will start as an Assistant Professor at Cal State University Northridge in 2021.
• Marc de Manuel joins the lab as a postdoc as of Sept 2020, after a PhD at Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
• Michael Zietz (Biological Informatics) joins the lab for a Spring rotation
• Hakhamanesh Mostafavi awarded the annual John S. Newberry Prize from the Biological Sciences dept. for his PhD work
• After a MA in plant sciences at UCSD, Luke Sarre joins the lab as a research associate, joint with Peter Andolfatto
• Kristin Lee leaves the lab for a position as a data scientist at Glossier
• Jihanne Shepherd, a junior at Columbia, joins the lab as a research assistant, after 10 weeks of summer research on coral genomics
• Arbel Harpak awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Simons Society of Fellows
• Former graduate student Ziyue Gao will take up a faculty position in the Genetics Dept. of the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020
• Newly minted Dr. Hahkamanesh Mostafavi is off to Ancestry.com for a short internship, then to Stanford U for a postdoc
• Former undergraduate Yun Deng will start a PhD program at UC Berkeley in fall 2019
• Former graduate student Wynn Meyer will start as an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University as of Fall 2020, after completing a AAAS fellowship
• Talk by Arbel Harpak at the 2019 Biology of Genomes on the Poor portability of polygenic scores even within an ancestry group
• Ipsita Agarwal is awarded the 2019-2020 John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship as a alumnus of Amherst College
• Kristin Lee joins the lab as a postdoc, after a PhD at UC Davis
• Former graduate student Ellen Leffler takes an Assistant Professor position in the Dept. of Human Genetics at the University of Utah as of fall 2019
• Carla Hoge joins the lab as a graduate student
• Arbel Harpak starts his postdoc in the lab, after a PhD at Stanford
• Misha Khan, an undergraduate from Swathmore, spends 10 weeks as a researcher in the lab
• Zach Fuller awarded an NIGMS F32 postdoctoral grant
• Talk by Ipsita Agarwal at the 2018 Biology of Genomes meetings on Widespread differences in the mutation spectrum of X and autosomes: causes and consequences
• Ipsita Agarwal is awarded the 2018-2019 John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship as a alumnus of Amherst College
• Current rotation student Carla Hoge awarded a NSF GRFP to work on our nascent project in coral genetics
• Yun Deng, an undergraduate student visiting from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will work in the lab Jan-June 2018
• Molly Schumer awarded a 2017 l’Oréal Women in Science fellowship
• Molly Schumer awarded a Hanna Gray HHMI fellowship
• Molly Schumer will join the faculty of Biology at Stanford University in 2019
• As of January 2018, Priya Moorjani will be an Assistant Professor in the MCB Dept of UC Berkeley
• Former postdoc Sonal Singhal starts her position as Assistant Professor in Biology at California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Molly Schumer receives the 2017 Dobzhansky Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution
• Felix Wu, a student in the Integrative Program, joins the lab
• Priya Moorjani is awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
• Yuki Haba is awarded the 2017 Alfred Russell Wallace Prize for the best MA thesis in the Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
• Ipsita Agarwal is awarded the 2017-2018 John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship as a alumnus of Amherst College
• Talks by Hakhamanesh Mostafavi on Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts and by Zach Baker on the Repeated losses of PRDM9-directed recombination despite the conservation of PRDM9 across vertebrates at Biology of Genomes 2017
• Yuki Haba heading to Princeton University in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. on the evolution of behavior
• Talk by Eduardo Amorim on The Population Genetics of Recessive Lethal Mutations & poster by Ipsita Agrawal on Sex Differences in the Mutation Spectrum in Humans (July 2017) at SMBE 2017
• Molly Schumer (Harvard Society of Fellows) to co-chair the Evolution session of the Biology of Genomes 2017 meeting (May 2017)
• Egill Richard visits the lab from a Masters program at Université Paris 7 (April-Aug 2017)
• Zachary Fuller joins the lab as a new postdoc, from a PhD at Penn State (March 2017)