Posts tagged #milestones
Congrats, James!
Congratulations to James Shepherdson for successfully defending his thesis, "Multiplex functional assessment of variant effect in the retinal transcription factor CRX"! Watch a recording of the defense here.
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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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Congratulations Clarice!
Congratulations to Clarice Hong for successfully defending her thesis, "Understanding gene regulation with high-throughput genome-integrated reporter assays"! Watch a recording of her defense here.
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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One last thing before I go – 01/28/2020
chose artist’s home, for
science is self expression.
found beauty in truth.
This was Max’s last lab meeting with us. Max also shared some words of wisdom with us.
Words of Wisdom
- Mentoring matters
- Teaching will make you a better researcher and research will make you a better teacher
- The goal of the lab is to help lab members get to where they want to go
- Love people for their strengths and support them through their weaknesses
- Science is a form of self expression
- Trust your esthetic taste in problems and answers.