Molly Accepted into the Cold Spring Harbor Chromatin and Gene Expression Course! Exciting news! Molly has been accepted into the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course on Chromatin, Epigenetics, and Gene Expression! This is a wonderful opportunity for Molly to develop techniques in chromatin capture that will be directly applicable to her work on Cohesin, and…

Welcome, Michael Leonard! We are delighted to welcome Michael Leonard to the Nguyen Lab as our first Professional Research Assistant! Michael completed his undergraduate training at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he studied plant-fungi interactions in the lab of Dr. Kelly Lyons. Michael will be spearheading our work investigating how gene requirements change…

Congratulations Molly on receiving an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship from NIGMS!! Molly’s fellowship will support her research into the role of the cohesin complex in the repair of damaged DNA, work with important implications for how cells maintain genome integrity. This award is a testament to the creativity and rigor she…

The Nguyen lab is up and running! It has been an exciting few weeks as we get the lab up and running . We ran our first agarose gel and got our first cells into culture, small but satisfying milestones as we build toward the science ahead. More to come!

Ally has been named a Boettcher Investigator! We are thrilled to represent the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical School as a recipient of the Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award. This grant will support our work exploring the role of PRR12 in the regulation of the Cohesin complex in the repair of damaged DNA.