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!

The HCRP will fund Carlie's independent research in the Whipple lab to investigate subnuclear localization of imprinted loci.

Aditya Wirawan presented his research at the National Collegiate Research Conference. Watch out for his graduate school applications this fall!

Join us in welcoming Amanda Leinbaugh to the team! Amanda will provide administrative support for Dr. Whipple and the lab.

We bid a warm farewell to Daniel Blackwell as he follows his dreams in LA. We thank Daniel for helping us with the administrative side of getting our lab up and running since 2019.

This award will support the work of graduate student Courtney Whilden on "Investigating Satiety Circuitry Changes in Prader-Willi Syndrome." Experiments are already underway!

Congratulations to Aditya on his successful presentation at the Harvard Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Science fair today.

We are welcoming a new undergraduate in the lab, Carlie McGrath, a junior concentrating in Integrative Biology. Carlie will be working under the mentorship of Min on gene regulatory mechanisms controlling imprinted gene expression.

Simon joined the Whipple lab in 2019 as an undergraduate, completed his senior thesis, and then following graduation worked full-time as a Research Associate. In addition to keeping the lab operating smoothly, his experimental and computational work was critical to our ongoing studies on snoRNAs. He will be sorely missed by all, but we're looking forward to a lab reunion in Austria some day!

The Herchel Smith Harvard Undergraduate Research Program is a competitive award supporting a select group of high-potential undergraduates conducting a promising summer research project. Aditya will continue working in the Whipple lab on an independent project to identify novel snoRNA binding proteins in neurons.

We thank Thareendra De Zoysa for his contribution to all aspects of the Whipple Lab. As the first postdoc in the lab, he served to greatly enhance both our science and our lab environment. He made significant contributions to identifying targets of orphan snoRNAs. Thareendra will be missed by all but we are so excited for his future!

Congratulations to Courtney Whilden for receiving the Simmons Award from the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging. Courtney will use these funds to support snoRNA imaging experiments.

Overbeck Christian Takou Mbah, a former undergraduate trainee in the Whipple lab, will attend Stanford University School of Medicine in the fall. Congratulations to Christian on this hard earned achievement!

Courtney Whilden, a graduate student from the Program in Neuroscience, will join the Whipple lab to complete her doctoral research. We are excited to welcome Courtney to the team and to see the Whipple lab continue to grow!

Afiya Quryshi joins the Whipple lab after receiving funding from the PRISE Summer Fellowship. The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) aims to build community and stimulate creativity among Harvard undergraduate researchers. Afiya will work alongside Daniel Loftus on campus this summer. She is the second undergraduate to join the Whipple lab under this scholarship. We look forward to having her join the team!