Author: rajivmccoy

The lab left some gifts in Rajiv’s office while he attended the Origins of Aneuploidy conference.

Stephanie Yan was awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH. Congrats to Steph!

Rajiv, Steph, and Dylan attended the Telomere-to-Telomere Face-to-Face (T2T-F2F) conference in Santa Cruz. Dylan gave a talk and Steph gave a flash talk!

The McCoy lab receives a Discovery Award for a collaboration with Winston Timp and Alexis Battle’s labs to use long-read sequencing to study human transcriptome diversity.

Read more here: https://research.jhu.edu/major-initiatives/discovery-awards/2022-awardees/

Kate Weaver was awarded a Dean’s Teaching Fellowship from the Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins. The award will support her in developing her own course that she will teach to undergraduates. Congrats to Kate!

Michael joins the McCoy lab as a postdoc. Welcome Michael!

Andrew joins the McCoy lab as a PhD student from the CMDB program. Welcome, Andrew!

Two separate teams from the lab (Dylan and Sara; Kate, Steph, and Rajiv) were awarded Technology Fellowships from the Johns Hopkins Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation. The awards will support them in developing innovative technology-based teaching strategies for undergraduate courses. Thank you to CTEI, and congrats to all!

Sara Carioscia received an award from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), and Dylan Taylor received an honorable mention. Congratulations to Sara and Dylan!