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...
Alex Shalek has been appointed to the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Professorship at MIT. The Pfizer-Laubach Chair was established by Pfizer to honor Dr. Gerald D. Laubach, MIT alumnus and former president of Pfizer Inc. Congratulations, Alex!...
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!...
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...
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...
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....