The Whipple Lab is excited to have Fahmida Afreen join as an undergraduate researcher. Fahmida is a freshman at Harvard College intending to double concentrate in Applied Math and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Dina is a postdoctoral fellow interested in the molecular mechanisms of imprinted gene regulation. Before joining Harvard, she completed her PhD at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, where she studied chromatin organization and long-range promoter contacts in autism spectrum disorders.

The Whipple Lab welcomes MCO graduate student Isra Galicia Silva to the lab. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Microbiology from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and completed a Post-Baccalaureate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with the J-Rad Lab on the interplay between metabolism, circadian rhythms, and cellular maturation.

The Whipple Lab welcomes our newest member, Katherine Gu. Katherine joins us as a research assistant. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry and Chemical Biology from Vanderbilt University. Outside of lab, she enjoys working out, hiking, and trying restaurants in the Boston area.

Congratulations to Carlie McGrath Tydings who will be joining the Greenleaf Lab at the Stanford Department of Genetics in July, as a research assistant.

Congratulations to Aditya for graduating from Harvard! He will be attending graduate school at MIT in the fall.

Lily will be part of Harvard’s Program for Research Science and Engineering (PRISE) this summer. Her project with the Whipple lab will involve observing hallmarks of nucleolar stress and the role of small nucleoar RNAs on neuronal function.

Congratulations to Research Assistant Jen Yi! This fall, Jen will begin graduate school in the Harvard MCO program.

Debaleena Kar has joined the Whipple lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on the role of snoRNA in translation.

Daniel successfully defended his PhD thesis work on "Investigating the cis-regulatory mechanisms underlying neuronal imprinted expression." We thank Daniel for all his contributions to the lab and wish him the best of luck in his next career steps at Intellia Therapeutics!

This grant aims to investigate the role of SNORD116 in ribosome biology. For more details on this project and others funded by FPWR, a blog with the funded descriptions and a link to the recorded webinar presented by Dr. Theresa Strong, Director of Research Programs at FPWR can be found here.

The Whipple lab enjoyed the MCB fall kick off celebration to welcome new students on campus. Graduate students interested in rotating should contact Amanda Whipple.

Congratulations to Courtney Whilden for being awarded an NIH F31 fellowship! This award will support her project on snoRNAs.

Carlie has been awarded HCRP (Harvard College Research Program) funding to pursue her work on the subnuclear localization of imprinted genes in the lab this summer.

Udbhav Chitta was the first member of the Whipple lab in 2019 and has been accepted into the biomedical graduate program at UMass Medical School. We are grateful to his contributions to the lab and are excited he will remain nearby. Warm wishes!

While he will be sorely missed in the Whipple lab this summer, we are proud of Aditya for seizing this opportunity to widen his skill sets. Look out for his graduate school applications this fall!