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!
T2T-F2F in Santa Cruz
Discovery Award
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/
Rajiv becomes Twitter famous
Kate receives Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
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 Tassia joins the lab
Michael joins the McCoy lab as a postdoc. Welcome Michael!
Andrew Bortvin joins the lab
Andrew joins the McCoy lab as a PhD student from the CMDB program. Welcome, Andrew!
CTEI Technology Fellowships
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 awarded NSF fellowship
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!
Lab movie night
The lab watches Space Jam and learns that Rajiv used to have a burned CD of songs called “Jock Jams”.
Sara Carioscia and Dylan Taylor join the lab
Sara and Dylan join the McCoy lab as PhD students from the CMDB program. Welcome!
McCoy Lab 