Learn about how Omer Yilmaz, Associate Professor of Biology at MIT, and Alex combine their expertise to tackle the largest problems in colon cancer here.
We’re incredibly grateful to receive an NIH Pioneer Award to define, at unprecedented resolution, how substance use disorders influence immune function and the response to HIV-1 and other pathogens by developing and applying innovative single-cell and bulk profiling and perturbation tools to inform the design of novel cure and prevention strategies. Read more here.
Alex was recently features in Cell Systems’ “Voices” piece on the future of understanding cell behavior and cellular communities. Read his opinion, and that of other leading voices in the field, here.
Alex, along with HCA Equity Working Group co-leaders Partha Majumder and Musa Mhlanga, details some of the lessons they’ve learned in their timing leading the initiative and their thoughts moving forward in this piece for Nature Medicine.
Our very own Constantine Tzouanas has been named a 2020 Hertz Fellow! We’re very excited for this achievement, and looking forward to what’s in store. Read more about the Hertz Fellowship and Constantine here.
With Boston Children’s Hospital PI (and former post-doc!) Jose Ordovas-Montanes, we will expand our COVID-19-related research to include understanding disease pathogenesis in a pediatric cohort – the data and findings of which will be readily accessible to the scientific community. Learn more about our and others’ efforts from CZI here and about single-cell genomics in […]
Congratulations to Alex for winning the 2019-2020 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, given for “his leadership and pioneering spirit; his vision, inventiveness, and enthusiasm for mentorship and collaboration; and his tremendous contributions to a critical area at the intersection of science and medicine.” Read about the award and Alex here.
A belated congratulations to Marc Wadsworth for successfully defending his thesis! We wish Marc the best of luck in his future endeavors, and we’re excited for all the upcoming defenses this semester!
Congratulations to Jay Prakadan for successfully defending his thesis! We wish Jay the best of luck in his future endeavors, and we’re excited for all the upcoming defenses this year!
Congratulations to Kellie Kolb, the first student from the Shalek Lab to receive her PhD! We wish Kellie the best of luck in her future endeavors, and we’re excited for many more graduations in the coming years!
Carly’s data visualization from a non-human primate atlas is one of 28 entries from 12 countries shortlisted for the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019. The overall winner will be announced on 3 July 2019. Learn more at the following link.
Immunity celebrates its 25th anniversary at an exciting time in immunology, marked by the advent of new, door-opening approaches and a deeper understanding of the centrality of the immune system to both health and disease. Alex is among 25 investigators asked to look forward and share a vision of the next quarter century of immunology […]
Carly’s visualization of single-cell mRNA sequencing data of 45,782 cells from 14 organs was selected in the 2019 Koch Institute Image Awards. Carly’s image and the other 9 awardees are featured in Stat News. Congratulations Carly!
Alex K. Shalek has been approved for promotion to Associate Professor without Tenure! The official promotion will be effective July 1. Congratulations Alex! Alex’s research is directed towards the creation and implementation of new technologies to understand how cells collectively perform systems-level functions in healthy and diseased states. His lab’s technology development efforts leverage recent […]
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 Harvard University’s Health Sciences and Technology program. Congratulations, Sophia!
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 […]
