Her Snoopy chocolate Swiss roll cake won “best theme” dessert!
Margaret wins prize at holiday party
ASHG 2024 in Denver
Rajiv and Margaret attended the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Denver. Rajiv presented a plenary talk describing Arjun and Sara’s research about the genetic basis of aneuploidy and recombination. Margaret chaired a session about the use of new sequencing technologies for transcriptomic analysis.
CMDB Retreat in Pennsylvania
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’s thesis defense
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!
MD-GEM Genetics Research Day
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)!
Summer party at Rajiv’s house
The lab tries a Baltimore classic: pepperment lemon sticks.
Michael receives T32 fellowship
Michael Tassia was awarded an NIH T32 fellowship from the Division of Hematology. Congratulations to Michael!
JHU Catalyst Award
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!
MIRA renewal is funded
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 Starostik joins the lab
Margaret joins the McCoy lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Margaret!
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