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Sara, Michael, and Rajiv were featured for a fraction of a second in a video celebrating the 150th anniversary of Johns Hopkins University. See if you can find us chatting with President Daniels!

Rajiv and Sara attended the Biology of Genomes conference at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Sara presented a poster about her research studying the genetic basis of human aneuploidy.

Joshua Bauman joins the McCoy lab as a PhD student from the CMDB program. Welcome Josh!

Our lab participated in the annual retreat at Liberty Mountain Resort, hosted by the Johns Hopkins graduate program in Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology, and Biophysics (CMDB). Sara gave a talk and others presented posters about their research.

Dylan Taylor gave his public thesis defense talk describing his research studying the sources of functional genomic variation across diverse human populations. Congrats to Dr. Taylor!

Sara and Arjun each presented posters at the Maryland Genetics, Epidemiology, and Medicine research day. Both won first place in their respective categories (Graduate Student, Postdoc)!

Michael Tassia was awarded an NIH T32 fellowship from the Division of Hematology. Congratulations to Michael!

The lab received a Catalyst Award in support of early career faculty. Read more here: https://bio.jhu.edu/2024/06/21/dr-rajiv-mccoy-named-2024-catalyst-awardee/.

A celebration was held at the Peabody Library. Thank you to Johns Hopkins!

Our lab was awarded an R35 fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH, funding our research through 2029. We are very grateful for the support!

Margaret joins the McCoy lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Margaret!