Today Andrea successfully completed her qualifying exam and can now continue her thesis research in the lab. Congrats Andrea!
Andrea passes quals!
First Preprint from the Cotney Lab on Biorxiv!
The first preprint from the Cotney lab on Human Craniofacial Epigenomics is out now on Biorxiv.org. Comments and suggestions are welcomed!
Stefan Blankvoort visiting the lab from Norway
Dr. Stefan Blankvoort from the lab of Dr. Cliff Kentros at Trondheim University visits the Cotney lab to learn ChIP-Seq in small amounts of brain tissue. He will be visiting during the months of April and May.
Jennifer VanOudenhove, PhD joins the lab!
Dr. VanOudenhove joins the Cotney lab after completing her PhD with Dr. Gary Stein at UMass Medical School and the University of Vermont Medical School.
Graduate Student Andrea Wilderman Joins the Lab!
Following first year rotations Andrea Wilderman has joined the lab to do her thesis research.
Dr. Cotney receives R35 MIRA for ESI!
Dr. Justin Cotney awarded a new five-year, $1,993,750, grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his project entitled: “Unraveling mechanisms of genome regulation to understand and improve human health”.
More details on the grant can be found on NIH Reporter.
Jeffrey Kron Joins the Lab!
The Cotney Lab would like to welcome Jeffrey Kron. He will be working as a Research Assistant 2 and supporting a number of projects in the lab.
We are hiring!
My lab is officially open for business and looking for a few talented scientists to join my group. I will be accepting applications from Postdoctoral candidates for both experimental and computational positions. I will be accepting Graduate Students from UConn Storrs and UConn Health for rotations beginning in the fall of 2015. If you are interested in my research and how you might be able to contribute to my group please feel free to email me directly or upload information found in the form below. (sorry, generic letters do not receive replies)
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Assistant Professor at UConn Health
Excited to announce I will be joining the faculty of the UConn Health as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences and the Institute for Systems Genomics. I will be starting my lab there in mid 2015 and will be actively recruiting researchers, postdocs, and graduate students in the coming months. Please email me directly if you have interest in joining my new group.
K99/R00 Funded
I am pleased to announce my human craniofacial work is now being supported by a K99/R00 award from the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research.
See project info here: NIDCR RePORTER Project Information