Daniel Emerson, Miriam Minsk, Ashley Cook, and Jordan Barnett publish their 3D genome and replication origins paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04803-0

Spencer Haws is the recipient of the New York Stem Cell Foundation Druckenmiller Postdoc Fellowship. Congratulations Spencer, and welcome to the NYSCF community!

Brian Franklin passes his qualifying exam in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate group. Congratulations Brian!

Katelyn R. Titus defends her PhD proposal and advances as a PhD candidate in Penn’s Bioengineering graduate program. Congratulations Kate!

Miriam Minsk will begin the MD/PhD program at UCSF in September 2022. Congratulations Miriam!

Emily J. Pickup passes her qualifying exam and advances as a PhD candidate in Penn’s Neuroscience graduate program. Congratulations Emily!

Congratulations to our alum Jon Beagan who received the LSRF postdoctoral fellowship for his work in Daniel Colon Ramos lab at Yale. 

Harshini Chandrashekar speaks on her work at Penn’s NeuroEpigenetics interest group.

Jon Beagan’s paper on cohesin-independent loops during neural stimulation is accepted at eLIFE!

Dan Emerson and Ashley Cook’s paper on cohesin-mediated loops and human replication origins is accepted at Nature!

Zoltan Simandi speaks on his work at Penn’s Epigenetics Institute

Jordan Barnett’s collaborative work with the Joyce lab is available on BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.08.487672

Avi Waldman and Rohan Patel receive Honorable Mentions for the NSF GRFP – congratulations!

Linda Zhou matches at her first choice for residency – UPenn Dermatology

Alexandria Nikish is the recipient of the UPenn T32 Neurotechnology training grant. Congratulations Ali!

Miriam Minsk is accepted into USCF, Johns Hopkins, and Tri-I MD/PhD programs – congratulations Miriam!

Ken Chandradoss speaks on his work at Penn’s Epigenetics Institute

Congratulations to our postdoc Dr. Ji Hun Kim on receiving a faculty position the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology! Ji Hun will start his lab building upon his light activated dynamic looping tool and understanding the role for loops in gene expression.

Cremins lab organizes the 2021 3D genome Keystone conference along with colleagues Stavros Lomvardes and Job Dekker

Jenn awarded ISSCR Dr. Susan B. Lim Outstanding New Investigator

Lab receives 2021 NIH pioneer award With NIH Pioneer Award, Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins Will Study Genome Folding’s Role in Long-term Memory

Emily Pickup joins the lab – welcome Emily!

Harshini Chandrashekar successfully passes her PhD qualifying exam!

Thomas Malachowski successfully passes his PhD qualifying exam!

Rohan Patel joins the lab – welcome Rohan!

Avi Waldman joins the lab – welcome Avi!

Brian Franklin passes his Step One exam. Congratulations Brian!

Zoltan Simandi attends CZI faculty application training program.

Jordan Barnett joins the lab – welcome Jordan!

Dan Emerson successfully passes his PhD qualifying exam!

Linda Zhou, PhD wins the Saul Winegrad award for 2021 best thesis for Penn GCB.

Congratulations to Linda, Ken, Thomas, Chunmin, Ji Hun, Wanfeng, Kate, and Chuanbin for the posting of their new manuscript to BioRxiv.

Ali and Kenneth publish their opinion paper on in situ sequencing in Molecular Cell.

Spencer Haws joins the lab – welcome Spencer!

Michael Guo wins an R25 NIH physician-scientist fellowship. Congratulations Mike!

The Lab has officially moved to a new lab space in the Clinical Research Building!

Lab receives two U01 grants from the 4D Nucleome Consortium.

The lab receives a grant from the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.

Linda Zhou passes her PhD defense with flying colors. Congratulations Dr. Zhou!

Spencer Hawes has decided to join lab!

The lab receives funding through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Neurodegenerative Disease Pairs collaboration with Dr. Kristen Brennand

Danying Guan joins the lab for the summer as part of the The American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Virtual Summer Research Program. Welcome Danying!

Congratulations to Ali Nikish for passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam!

Noah Barnett, David Barto, Ashley Cook, Nathan Ehrenreich, Thomas Malachowski, and Ken Raanin Chandradoss have officially joined the lab. Welcome!

Congratulations to Kate Titus for passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam!

Jon Beagan presents at a virtual conference sponsored by Arima alongside Dan Geschwind and Schahram Akbarian

Jon Beagan wins the 2020 Sol Pollack award for the PhD thesis representing original research at the forefront of its field.

Miriam Minsk and Kelly Feng wrap up their junior year after conquering the challenging Covid-19 virtual semester. Miriam and Kelly – we are so proud of you.

Jennifer gives a virtual seminar at New York University

Jennifer speaks on the lab’s work at Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes virtual meeting

Jennifer speaks on the lab’s work at Cold Spring Harbor Genome Organization virtual meeting

Jenn receives positive news of the NSF CAREER award

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Gilgenast PhD on successfully defending his thesis!

The lab passes the tenure milestone!

Congratulations Dan Emerson on his acceptance into Penn Bioengineering’s PhD program. Welcome to the lab as a PhD student Dan!

Congratulations Harshini Chandrashekar on her acceptance into Penn Bioengineering’s PhD program. Welcome to the lab as a PhD student Harshini!

Warmest congratulations to Chuanbin Su and his family on welcoming their precious son Micki into the world.

We welcome Thomas Malachowski to the lab as a first-year graduate student in the Bioengineering PhD program. Welcome Thomas.

Our lab is highlighted in Nature’s Technologies to watch in 2020. Thought leaders predict the tech developments that could have a big impact in the coming year: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00114-4

Jennifer presents the labs work on the 3D genome and repeat instability at the fourth international brainstorm symposium on the expanding role of repetitive sequences in disease at the University of Florida. https://neurogenetics.med.ufl.edu/2019/10/25/2020-fourth-international-brainstorm-symposium/

Jon’s paper is accepted at Nature Neuroscience – way to go Jon!

Thomas Gilgenast wins 2nd place for his poster presentation at the Penn Bioengineering graduate student symposium. Congratulations Thomas!

Jennifer speaks on the lab’s work at Emory University.

Congrats to Thomas Gilgenast for his 2nd place poster at the BE Research Symposium!

Our review “On the existence and functionality of topologically associating domains” is published in Nature Genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-019-0561-1 Congratulations to Jonathan Beagan!

Jonathan Beagan successfully defends his thesis work and receives his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Beagan!

Jon Beagan receives a podium short talk at the Keystone Meeting in Genome Architecture in Space and Time in Whistler, BC March 2020.

Jennifer presents Jon’s new work exploring the 3D genome in neuronal activation at the 4DN Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.

Our collaborative work with the Blobel lab exploring 3D genome reconfiguration after mitotic exit is published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1778-y. Congratulations to co-authors Kate Titus, Thomas Gilgenast, and Daniel Emerson for their contributions.

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the NIH Center of Excellence in Chromatin Biology

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the NIH/NICHD Division of Developmental Biology

Jennifer presents the lab’s research at the New York Stem Cell Translational Research meeting https://nyscf.org/events/conference/

Jennifer presents the lab’s research at Washington University St. Louis.

Our alumnus James Sun has been accepted into NYU’s PhD program and will pursue an MD/PhD at NYU. Congratulations James!

We are delighted to welcome Michael Guo, MD PhD to the lab.

Dr. Heesun Choi joins our team as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Heesun!

Jennifer presents our lab’s work at MIT.

Jon Beagan is the recipient of the best poster award at the 2019 Penn Genetics retreat. Congratulations Jon, you make us so proud!

Our team is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research Innovation grant for chromatin and epigenetic engineering (2019-2023) in collaboration with Casey Brown and Arjun Raj.

Our team receives an R01 through the National Institute of Mental Health (2019-2024).

Katelyn Titus joins the lab for her Ph.D. studies in Bioengineering. Welcome, Kate!

Chuanbin Su joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome, Chuanbin!

Alexandria Nikish joins the lab for her Ph.D. studies. Welcome, Ali!

Linda Zhou from the Cremins lab is the recipient of an NIH F30 Grant starting September 2019. Congratulations Linda!

Zoltan Simandi and Harshini Chandrasekhar attend the Columbia single cell sequencing analysis boot camp.

Miriam Minsk is the recipient of the best research presentation award for her summer Rachleff scholar’s research. Congratulations to Miriam and her mentor Linda Zhou!

Team LADL’s paper is highlighted in Penn news!

Team LADL’s paper is highlighted in Nature Reviews Genetics 

Kate Titus, Harvey Huang (Penn Bioeng ’18), and Sunny Chen (Penn Bioeng ’18) publish a paper on the core-periphery network structure of TADs

Jon Beagan presents his work at the Neuroepigenetics interest group in the Epigenetics Institute.

Congratulations Team LADL – Ji Hun Kim, Mayuri Rege, Jackie Valeri, for their publication of Light-activated Dynamic Looping!

Linda Zhou presents her work for the Epigenetics Institute monthly seminar series.

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the Evolution and Function of higher-order chromosomes meeting at the Institut Pasteur in Paris France.

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.

Ji Hun Kim travels to Greece to present a podium talk on his Light Activated Dynamic Looping technology. Congratulations Ji Hun!

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the University of Chicago.

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the University of Virginia Medical School Annual Symposium: Higher-order structure and disease.

Deepak Mani joins the lab for his first rotation in the Bioengineering graduate program in Fall 2019. Welcome Deepak!

Jennifer presents the lab’s work at the Company of Biologists Epigenetics Meeting in Sussex UK.

Thomas Gilgenast successfully defends his thesis proposal.