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| Thesis Defense | May 12, 2008 |
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Cydney Nielsen successfully defended her thesis entitled "Mammalian gene regulation through the 3' UTR". She will return to British Columbia, Canada where she will start a postdoc at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. |
| Poster Prize | 2008 |
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Eric Wang is a recipient of the Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, presented at the 2008 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Annual Forum. The poster prize recognizes exemplary research currently performed by students within the HST community. |
| DOE CSGF Fellowship | 2007 |
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Robin Friedman is a recipient of a DOE CSGF graduate fellowship. The fellowship provides support and guidance to some of the nation’s best scientific graduate students, and these graduates go on to work in DOE laboratories, private industry and educational institutions. |
| Ingvar Carlsson Award | 2007 |
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Rickard Sandberg is one of the recipients of the 2007 Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. An award for young postdocs returning to Sweden to start an independent research career |
| Fellowship Award | July, 2007 |
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Xinshu Xiao is a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association starting in July 2007. She is a former recipient of a Anna Fuller Fund postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Oncology. |
| Fellowship Award | July, 2007 |
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Razvan Nutiu will receive a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program starting in July 2007. He is a former recipient of an Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship (2006-2007). |
| Infinite Mile Award | April, 2007 |
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Hilda Harris-Ransom is the recipient of MIT's School of Science 2007 "Infinite Mile" Award in recognition of outstanding achievement and dedication to the department. She was nominated for this award by Professor Chris Burge. |
| RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award | March, 2007 |
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Zefeng Wang (former Burge lab postdoctoral fellow) won this year's RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award in recognition of his outstanding research contributions to the field of RNA biology, including his work on RNA splicing carried out in the Burge lab. Zefeng Wang is currently an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award was established to recognize the achievement of young scientists engaged in RNA research and to encourage them to pursue a career in the field of RNA. |
| 2007 Schering-Plough Award | April 2007 |
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Chris Burge is the recipient of the 2007 Schering-Plough Research Institute Award, awarded by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The ASBMB/Schering-Plough Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by researchers within the first 10 years since completion of the PhD. |
| Journal Cover | November 23, 2006 |
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"Inference of splicing regulatory activities by sequence neighborhood analysis" by Michael Stadler, Noam Shomron, Gene W Yeo, Aniket Schneider, Xinshu Xiao and Christropher B. Burge was selected for the cover of the November issue of PLoS Genetics. [Cover art by Michael Stadler] |
| Fellowship Award | August, 2006 |
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Razvan Nutiu joined the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow funded by a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. Razvan obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from McMaster University, Canada. |
| Thesis Defense | July 24, 2006 |
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Brad Friedman successfully defended his thesis, "The Evolution and Specificity of RNA Splicing". Brad has since completed his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and is now a postdoc in the Maniatis Laboratory at Harvard. |
| Journal Cover | July 7, 2006 |
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General and specific functions of exonic splicing silencers in splicing control" by Zefeng Wang, Xinshu Xiao, Eric Van Nostrand and Chris Burge was selected for the cover of the July issue of Molecular Cell. [Cover art by Xinshu Xiao] |
| CSBi Tee Shirt Design Competition | June 2006 |
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Robin Friedman's logo wins CSBi's tee shirt design competition. |
| Poster Prize | June 24, 2006 |
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Burge lab postdoctoral fellows Zefeng Wang and Xinshu Xiao won the 'Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research' prize, sponsored by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and the RNA Society for their poster "Diverse Functions of Exonic Splicing Silencers" at the 2006 RNA Meeting in Seattle. |
| New Baby | June 17, 2006 |
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Gali Shomron was born to parents Meytal and Noam Shomron at 4:35 AM on Saturday June 17 in Mt Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gali weighs 3317 grams (7 pounds, 2 ounce) and measures 50 cm (20 inches). |
| Tenure Party | April 12, 2006 |
The Biology Department hosted a gathering at Legal Sea Foods to
celebrate Chris Burge's promotion to tenure. Burge lab members
provided the cake... [photo by Rickard Sandberg]. |
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| Fellowship Award | March, 2006 |
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Cydney Nielsen received a postgraduate scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). |
| Fellowship Award | January, 2006 |
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Xinshu (Grace) Xiao received a postdoctoral fellowship for Molecular Oncology from the Anna Fuller Fund. |
| Fellowship Award | November, 2005 |
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Rickard Sandberg received a 2 years postdoctral fellowship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The fellowship also covers 3 years of salary upon returning to Sweden to support the establishment of a research group. |