NEWS
2024
Grant awarded to Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain
We are enthusiastic to share the news about the Career-Starter Research Grant awarded to Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain by The Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain, a Postdoctoral Associate at our lab, has been awarded a substantial grant of $90,000 from The Knights Templar Eye Foundation to support his research on retinal diseases. This funding is part of the Foundation’s commitment to backing researchers dedicated to the treatment and preventio...
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Jinjing Jian Ph.D.!
New Bioinformatics Programmer II
We welcome new bioinformatics programmer Tingting Yang Ph.D.!
We have a wonderful lab party to celebrate the Lunar New Year of 2024. We enjoy the games and food and have a lot of fun. Happy Spring Festival to everyone!!!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Sujung Soh Ph.D.!
2023
New Bioinformatics Programmer I
We welcome new bioinformatics programmer Shanli Ding!
We have a wonderful lab party as we get closer to the end of 2023. We enjoy the escape games and the dinner and have a lot of fun. Happy holidays to everyone!!!
We have a new PhD: Congratulations to Dr. Jiaxiong Lu! We are so proud of you!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Arpit Katiyar Ph.D.!
We have a new PhD: Congratulations to Dr. Johnny (Jongsu) Choi! We are so proud of you!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Ye Zheng M.D., Ph.D.!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Yexuan Cao Ph.D.!
Science published an article featuring the Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT) program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in which our lab participated. “For SMaHT, five groups of researchers plan to use several techniques to ferret out and verify these hidden signals. Doddapaneni, his Baylor colleague Rui Chen, and their team, for example, will deploy not just conventional whole genome DNA sequencing, but also two types of RNA sequencing, which can help confirm some vari...
Before the new semester begins, we throw an amazing lab party. We delight in designing our own ceramic pieces with brushes, stamps, and stencils, and it’s a ton of fun. 1/5 1/5 Xinye's graduation
Vizgen Installs 100th MERSCOPE® Instrument at our core lab
Vizgen, a life science company committed to enhancing human health through the visualization of single-cell spatial genomics information, reached a significant milestone by successfully installing its 100th MERSCOPE instrument. The installation took place in the Single Cell Genomics Core at Baylor College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, which is under the leadership of Dr. Rui Chen. As one of the first adopters of the Alpha MERSCOPE® platform, the Core r...
We have a new PhD: Congratulations to Dr. Xinye Qian! We are so proud of you!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Jianming Shao Ph.D.!
We welcome new undergraduate researchers Atulya Dhati Mandyam, David Eldon Rauch, Elie Jinglin Wang, Grace Chaewon Park and Jocelyn Megan Lee. Hope you enjoy your summer research experience:)
National Institutes of Health SMaHT Grant
It is exciting to announce our project was presented as part of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund program called the Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Network. Baylor College of Medicine received the grant to develop state-of-the-art tools to catalog the extent of somatic mosaicism in different cell types, tissues and life stages, to better understand how much somatic mosaicism influences human biology and disease. With the grant, Baylor will establish a geno...
We have an incredible experience showcasing some of our research works and interacting with the most brilliant individuals from around the globe at ARVO 2023 in New Orleans, LA! Talks Session Eye Development: Regulatory Mechanisms and Networks Zhen: “Single-nuclei Multiomics Analysis of Human Fetal Retina” Session Genomic dissection of the eye using ‘omics and single cell technology Jin: “Single cell atlas of the human retina” Session Regulation of lipid metabolism i...
2022
We have a wonderful lab party as we get closer to the end of 2022. We enjoy the dinner and karaoke and have a lot of fun. Happy Birthday to Jin!!! Happy holidays to everyone!!!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Gerda Cristal Villalba Silva Ph.D.!
The Anterior Segment Initiative under National Eye Institute has funded eight research projects to explore the innervation of the eye’s surface. It is exciting to announce that our lab is involved in one of the projects “Effects of cornea epithelial barrier disruption on the cornea trigeminal neural circuit”. Corneal nerve ends closely integrate with the corneal epithelial layers. Our lab will collaborate to investigate how disruptions to the corneal epithelial barrier influence corneal nerv...
Johnny wins the 2nd best talk at CPSB Retreat 2022
Congratulations to Johnny for winning the second place for best talk at 2022 Chemical, Physical and Structural Biology Retreat!
2022 Translational Research Acceleration Program (TRAP) Grant Award
It is exciting to announce our project was presented as an awarded project at 2022 Translational Research Acceleration Program (TRAP). The Translational Research Acceleration Program (TRAP) awards will accelerate the movement of preclinical research toward an Investigational New Drug filing and into clinical trials to provide a robust and diverse pipeline of potential therapies to fight inherited retinal degenerations (IRD) and dry age-related macular degeneration. Our Project Title is “Ret...
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain Ph.D.!
We welcome new postdoctoral researcher Huayang Chen Ph.D.!
We have a great lab party before new semester starts. We enjoy bowling and laser tag and have a lot of fun. Happy Birthday to Xinye!!!
We welcome new undergraduate researchers Alice Tian, Giancarlo Valenzuela, Jessica He, Joseph Quinlan, Karen Zheng, Kirim Kim, Maggie Bao, Soo Oh and Tanmay Srinivasan. Hope you enjoy your summer research experience:)
Jiaxiong wins the Dance Contest of MHG Retreat 2022
Congratulations to Jiaxiong for winning the Ken Scott Dance Contest during 2022 Molecular and Human Genetics Retreat!
We have a new PhD: Congratulations to Dr. Qingnan Liang! We are so proud of you!
Jin's poster at The Biology of Genomes 2022
Jin will be presenting his poster “Single cell atlas of the human retina” at The Biology of Genomes 2022 from May 10 to May 14. Single-cell technologies have become powerful tools for studying cellular components, transcriptome relationships, and regulatory mechanisms underlying various retinal diseases and biological processes. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has advanced the assessment of cellular heterogeneity by detecting transcriptional similarities and differences...
Talks Session Application of multi-omics to inherited ocular disease Rui: “Deciphering non-coding genetic variants via integrative single cell multi-omics analysis” Session Single cell analysis in retinal research in health and disease Salma: “Spatial single cell atlas of the mouse retina using MERFISH” Xuesen: “A single cell multi-omics atlas of the human retina” Zhen: “Single-cell Multiomics Analysis of Human Retinal Development” Posters Session Molecu...