2020

September 2020 - Steve and Juergen Naggart received funding from the BrightFocus Foundation to use the Diversity Outbred mice and eQTL mapping to develop better mouse models of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

August 2020 - Congratulations to Katie for getting accepted into the Professional Master's program in Bioinformatics at the University of Maine! Very exciting! 

August 2020 - Selcan gets to stay in the lab! Thank you for finally coming through, US Visa system.

July 2020 - Our collaborative DO mESC manuscripts were published in Cell Stem Cell! [Link] [Link]

Research Preview in Cell Stem Cell [Link]

JAX Research Highlight [Link]

April 2020 - Selcan Aydin presented her mESC pQTL research at The Allied Genetics Conference!

April 2020 - Steve contributed a guest blog post to GSA's Genes to Genomes blog. [Link]

March 2020 - ???? The lab (and world) was turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic. [Link]

March 2020 - Steve and Dr. Muneer Hasham received an NCI R33 award to fund their xenograft studies!

March 2020 - The Munger Lab looks forward to welcoming Samantha Ardery to the lab this summer as part of the JAX Summer Student Program [Link] Update: 2020 SSP was cancelled due to COVID-19 (insert sad face).

 

2019

December 2019 - Steve was elected to the GSA Board of Directors! [Link]

October 2019 - Steve was nominated to run for a position on the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America. [Link] 

July 2019 - 2nd Annual Putt Putt Golf Tournament with the Baker Lab. We'll get you back next year!

​July 2019 - Steve's NIH R35 MIRA grant was awarded!

February 2019 - The Munger Lab's first ES Cell manuscript is up on bioRxiv! [Link]

February 2019 - Steve met with students and gave a seminar at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

 

2018

July 2018 - 1st Annual Putt Putt Golf Tournament with the Baker Lab ends in a tie!​​​​​​​​​ 

July 2018 - Steve was nominated to serve on the Allied Programming Committee for TAGC2020. [Link]

June 2018 - The lab welcomes summer student Benjamin Allan-Rahill!

June 2018 - Steve was honored to give the commencement address at Sumner Memorial High School. [Link]

May 2018 - Doug Perkins returns for another summer in the lab. Welcome back!

April 2018 - The lab welcomes new research assistant Catherine (Katie) Brunton!

March 2018 - We wish Lisa Somes all the best on her next adventure! JAX will miss you!

January 2018 - The lab welcomes new post-doc Selcan Aydin!​​

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2017

October 2017 - Steve gave an invited lecture at the Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics course at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. [Link]

September 2017 - Steve likes to procrastinate when he should be working on his grant application. For example, he decided that today was the day to work on his r/Shiny skills. [Link] 

August 2017 - Steve gave an invited seminar at EWHA Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. ​

June 2017 - Steve gave an invited seminar at the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute. [Link]

June 2017 - Welcome summer student extraordinaire Doug Perkins to the lab!

May 2017 - Abby and Zach rocked their talks at the student intern symposium. [pic]

March 2017 - Steve gave a short talk at the Maine Science Festival. [video] [slides]

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2016

December 2016 - Steve welcomes Dr. James Crooks as a guest blogger. Follow his weekly series on climate change and practical decisions you can make to live greener. [Link]

November 2016 - Congratulations freshly minted "PhD Candidate" Alex on passing your qualifying exam!

November 7-9, 2016 - Steve will help teach The Genome Access Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

October 18, 2016 - Steve presented a poster talk at ASHG in Vancouver [link to poster]

October 17, 2016 - Steve added a new blog post on power imbalance in science. [link]

October, 2016 - We welcome MDI high school interns Abigail Bridgers and Zachary Galeaz to the lab!

September 14, 2016 - Steve gave a seminar on systems genetics at Tufts University in Boston.

August 11, 2016 - Steve taught RNA-seq at the 21st Century Mouse Genetics Course @JAX. Great course!

July 14, 2016 - Steve gave a platform presentation at The Allied Genetics Conference in Orlando. [link]

July 5, 2016 - We welcome rotating grad student (Tufts) Candice Byers to the lab!

June 16, 2016 - Steve (and his meandering path to research) are profiled in The Search magazine. [link]

June 15, 2016 - Steve's co-first author pQTL paper is online at Nature! [link to paper] [link to press release]

Summer 2016 - Looking for talented computational and experimental post-docs to join our growing lab.

May 5, 2016 - Welcome Tufts University grad student Alex Stanton to the lab. Now get back to work!