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Fourth Cohen Research Conference
The fourth annual Cohen Research Conference was held October 23-25, 2023 in Michigan City, IN. Lab members presented talks on big ideas or out-there experiments. Continuing the tradition from prior CRCs, we also enjoyed communal cooking, a campfire near the lake, and a dunes hike in Indiana Dunes National Park which passed through Cowles Bog, a site of seminal research on ecological succession!
Goodbye Ryan, Avi, and Kai!
The lab met at Barak's house to congratulate Ryan, Avi and Kai on their successful thesis defenses and wish them well in their next endeavors! Ryan will be starting a postdoc in Cole Trapnell's lab at UW, Avi will be joining the team at Verily Life Sciences, and Kai will be starting a postdoc in Justin Kinney's lab at CSHL.
Well done, Kai!
Congratulations to Kai Loell for bringing the Cohen lab defense record to 3/3 this week by successfully defending his thesis, "Biophysically-informed models of heterogeneity in transcription factor activity"! Watch a recording of the defense here.
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Congratulations Avi!
The second of three in this week's Cohen lab defense-o-rama — congratulations to Avi Ramu for successfully defending his thesis, "Sources and consequences of cell-to-cell variability in gene expression"! Watch a recording of the defense here.
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Congratulations Ryan!
Congratulations to Ryan Friedman for kicking off the Cohen lab's three-defense week by successfully defending his thesis, "Iterative machine learning of a cis-regulatory grammar"! Watch a recording of the defense here.
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Summer Cookout — Goodbye, Jeff and Siqi!
The lab joined family and friends to celebrate Jeff and Siqi's successful defenses with a backyard cookout! Barak presented a book to each of the graduates, and everyone was treated to a magic show … um, I mean scientific demonstration of the power of ESP.
Congratulations Siqi!
Congratulations to Siqi Zhao for a successful defense of his thesis, “Single-cell massively parallel reporter assays”, completing the Cohen lab June thesis defense double-header! Watch a recording of his defense here!
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Congratulations Jeff!
Congratulations to Jeff Hansen for a successful defense of his thesis, “A Test of the Pioneer Factor Hypothesis for Silent Gene Activation”. Watch a recording of his defense here. Jeff is an MSTP student and will be returning to the clinic for the final two years of Medical School, so we still hope to see him around!
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Second Cohen Research Conference
The second Cohen Research Conference was held September 13-15, 2021 at Lake Geneva, WI. Every conference attendee registered online for the conference and presented a talk. Other activities included communal cooking, board games, swimming and kayaking, a lakeside hike, a meditation session, science talks out on the deck, and more! A strong continuation of CRC tradition. Thanks to Clarice and Jeff, the chief organizers of the conference.