{"id":9852,"date":"2022-09-05T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2024-11-15T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T04:10:07","slug":"a-couple-years-of-progress-and-fun-2021-2022-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/a-couple-years-of-progress-and-fun-2021-2022-whirlwind\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple years of progress and fun: 2021-2022 whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a whirlwind the past couple of years has been!\u00a0 Check out what we&#8217;ve been up to in 2021 and 2022:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lab had a lot of fun at GLAM EvoGen in Buffalo this year.\n<figure id=\"attachment_9872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9872\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9872 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1736-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emiliano, Xiaolu, and Cecile enjoying a post-GLAM meal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9882 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled-e1662397640293-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled-e1662397640293-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled-e1662397640293-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled-e1662397640293-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-diOS-1-scaled-e1662397640293.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undergraduate Miraz Sadi gives a great lightning talk on centromere evolution at GLAM Evogen in Buffalo, NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/people-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Lindsay<\/a> passed his quals. Congratulations Matt!\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9842\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9842 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matts.quals_-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt passed his quals!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/people-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emiliano Mart\u00ed<\/a> joined the lab and will be co-advised by Daven Presgraves.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9692\" style=\"width: 122px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9692\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20200113_143006-2-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20200113_143006-2-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20200113_143006-2-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20200113_143006-2-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20200113_143006-2.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emiliano, an E2G2 grad student, joined the Larracuente and Presgraves labs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>In 2022 we&#8217;ve been busy with papers on <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.75795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y chromosomes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.78981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drivers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telomeres<\/a>, oh my!<\/li>\n<li>We said goodbye to amazing undergraduates who are moving on to bigger and better things! Congratulations, Tuan, Sherif, Vera, Eddyson, and Chuqin.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9862\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9862 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled-e1662397408189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuan Pham (left) and Sherif Negm (right) are off to PhD programs Brown University and the University of Chicago, respectively. Congratulations graduates!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Our NIH MIRA grant was renewed. We are excited to continue our work on satellite DNA functional and evolutionary genomics!<\/li>\n<li>Xiaolu&#8217;s paper on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.62375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">satellite<\/a> regulation came out in eLife.<\/li>\n<li>Check out this blog from the NSF on our hackathon: <a href=\"https:\/\/mcbblog.nsfbio.com\/2021\/03\/26\/hacking-is-a-broader-impact-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hacking is a broader impact activity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a whirlwind the past couple of years has been!\u00a0 Check out what we&#8217;ve been up to in 2021 and 2022: The lab had a lot of fun at GLAM EvoGen in Buffalo this year. Matt Lindsay passed his quals. Congratulations Matt! Emiliano Mart\u00ed joined the lab and will be co-advised by Daven Presgraves. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/a-couple-years-of-progress-and-fun-2021-2022-whirlwind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A couple years of progress and fun: 2021-2022 whirlwind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-news","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/larracuente\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}