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Award

LEO Foundation Research Grant to continue the photosensitivity work

The LEO Foundation awarded DKK 61.9 million across 16 international skin research projects, ours among them, supporting continued study of photosensitive skin reactions.

LEO Foundation announcement
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Yuqing Wang graduated

Yuqing defended her thesis on the mechanisms of photosensitivity in autoimmune skin disease, and is now a Bioinformatics Scientist at New England Biolabs.

Paper

Our photosensitivity paper is out in Nature Immunology, with the cover

A spatially coordinated keratinocyte-fibroblast circuit recruits MMP9+ myeloid cells to drive IFN-I-driven inflammation in photosensitive autoimmunity.

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Paper

Worm Perturb-Seq is out in Nature Communications

A collaboration with the Walhout laboratory, led by Xuhang Li and Hefei Zhang, presenting a method for high-resolution RNA-seq across hundreds of replicate whole-animal perturbations at once, together with the EmpirDE analytical framework.

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Yuming Cao graduated

Yuming defended her thesis on host-virus dynamics at single-cell resolution in primary human cells, and is now a Computational Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.