Lab Member Awards & Fellowships 2017, Part 1

Lab Member Awards & Fellowships 2017, Part 1

Sep 05, 2017

Several Shalek Lab members have been recognized for their fantastic achievements! To note: Sam Allon was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship through the National Science Foundation. Travis Hughes was awarded the Martha Gray Prize in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics at the 2017 HST forum. Travis Hughes was selected as a Tip-Top Junior Investigator by the […]

Newest Members Join the Team!

Newest Members Join the Team!

Jul 01, 2017

We welcomed several brand new members to the Shalek Lab this Spring! Brittany Goods joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar following her PhD from Chris Love’s lab here at MIT. Sarah Nyquist joins as a co-advised PhD student at MIT in Computational & Systems Biology with Bonnie Berger. Alejandro Gupta and Toby Aicher join as new technicians, and Jenna Melanson joins as a new MIT-sponsored UROP. Welcome everyone!

Shalek Lab Bids Our First Alumnus Adieu

Shalek Lab Bids Our First Alumnus Adieu

Jun 06, 2017

Sophia Liu, a Shalek Lab UROP from 2015-2017, graduated from MIT in June, completing her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Thankfully, Sophia won’t be traveling too far; she will be pursuing a PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at Harvard University’s Health Sciences and Technology program. Congratulations, Sophia!

Shalek Lab Welcomes Newest Generation of Future Scientists

Shalek Lab Welcomes Newest Generation of Future Scientists

Mar 31, 2017

Kellie & her husband Pyae and Alex & his wife Heidi became first-time parents to their respective newborns, Tina and Orion! Tina was born March 12, 2017 and is already a steadfast Green Bay Packers fan like her mom. Orion was born just twelve days later on March 24th and was born with the same love of […]

Seq-Well featured in MIT News

Seq-Well featured in MIT News

Feb 13, 2017

The Shalek Lab’s latest publication in Nature Methods describes Seq-Well, a portable, low-cost platform for single-cell RNA-sequencing that was developed in collaboration with the Love lab.