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!

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.