November 2024
The lab’s work on a benchmarked, high-efficiency prime editing platform for multiplexed dropout screening is now live at Nature Methods! Congrats to all authors, especially co-firsts Ann and Danny! This work is also featured in Nature Methods News and Views.
October 2024
More fun at Princeton retreats- Ann gave a great talk at the LSI retreat this month!
Our collaborative work with LSI Scholar Harry McNamara and Jared Toettcher is out at Nature Cell Bio! Congrats to all authors!
Britt is featured in STAT Who to Know: 10 Scientists leading a new generation of gene editors developing CRISPR medicines!
September 2024
Lab alumni Danny and Purmina join the Adamson lab for a celebratory lab dinner!
The lab had a great time at the MOL retreat: Wode gave an excellent talk, and both Ann and Jia shared their work at posters. We are also proud of Aaron for being awarded the Distinguished Postdoc Service Award, and Sabrina for being awarded the Thomas J. Silhavy Graduate Advocacy Prize. Congrats to all!
Lab dinner at Winberies in Princeton!
Interim Director of Graduate Studies Danelle Devenport, Sabrina, and Prof Tom Silhavy at the MOL Retreat
August 2024
A busy month for the Adamson lab-
Our second PhD Student defends their thesis- Congrats Dr. Jun Yan! We are looking forward to seeing all the amazing science you will continue to do in your postdoctoral work.
The lab heads to Cold Spring Harbor for the CSHL Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting! We learned about lots of fun science, made new friends and had the opportunity to share updates about our ongoing work. Aaron and Wode presented posters, and Ann gave a great talk!
June 2024
The lab attends the MOL picnic- go tigers!
Sabrina is awarded the Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (NIH F31, NICHD)- Congrats!
May 2024
Britt hoods the first Adamson lab PhD graduate: Congrats again to Danny!
Our PE7 constructs are featured as a part of Addgene’s Hot Plasmids of Spring 2024!
April 2024
Jun’s manuscript is accepted and published at Nature-congrats to all authors! Read a snippet about the work on the Princeton MolBio Website.
Wode passes his general exam with distinction- Congrats Wode!!!
The lab takes a break from research to get some sweet treats, coffee and matcha together!
Ann presents her thesis work at CRISPR and Beyond: Perturbations at Scale to Understand Genomes in the UK! Though you can’t see her behind the podium, it was hard to miss her great talk.
Bruce is awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 24/25 academic year-Congrats Bruce!
Lab outing to The Gingered Peach in Lawrenceville!
March 2024
Ann and Danny’s work using prime editing for multiplexed dropout screens is live on bioRxiv! Congrats to all contributing authors.
February 2024
More screens await: Aaron cuts the “ribbon” on our new cell culture room!
Our collaboration with the Posfai lab demonstrating efficient prime editing in two-cell mouse embryos is finally out in Nature Biotech! Congrats to co-author Ryan, as well as all authors.
Our first graduate student defends their thesis in their Princeton Final Public Oral (FPO)! Congrats to Dr. Danny Simpson-the lab is so excited to see all the amazing science you will continue to do in the future
December 2023
Weihao passes his general exam- Congrats Weihao!
Happy Holidays from the Adamson Lab!
November 2023
The fourth lab pet: Welcome Zucchini (ZuZu)!
October 2023
The lab attends the MOL Retreat. Congrats to Danny on a wonderful talk and Bruce on a great poster!
Aaron and Britt’s collaboration with the Ploss lab is live on Science Signaling! A summary of the work can be found on the Molecular Biology website.
September 2023
The Department of Molecular Biology highlights M3seq on their website
Ann is awarded the Cassidy Yang Award for Service and Scholarship at the LSI Retreat. Congrats Ann!
Iulia Kotenko joins as our lab manager. Welcome Iulia!
August 2023
Britt co-organizes and presents at the CSHL Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting!
Danny presents a poster and Jia gives a talk at CSHL. Congrats to them both!
Danny and Jia’s work on mapping the genetic interaction network of PARP inhibitor response goes live on bioRxiv!
M3Seq is accepted and published at Nature Microbiology. Congrats to Bruce and Aaron!
Ryan is awarded the 2024 NJCCR Predoctoral Fellowship Grant! Congrats Ryan!
July 2023
Weihao adopts Encore — the third lab pet!
Yanna presents her summer work at the SURP Poster Session
June 2023
Sabrina and Britt’s collaboration with LSI Scholar Harry McNamara is live on bioRxiv!
Sabrina adopts Franklin — the second lab pet! Franklin has great interest in DNA, much like his namesake, and plans to focus on DNA (not furniture) damage.
Su Su Wai joins the lab as a senior thesis student.
May 2023
Aaron proposes to his girlfriend Sofi! Don’t worry — he gave her a real ring after talking about RING finger domains during a practice talk. Big congrats to Aaron and Sofi from the entire Adamson lab!
April 2023
Weihao Yan joins the lab! Our third MOL graduate student.
February 2023
Jun presents his work at the Princeton BioEngineering colloquium!
The lab gets a new break room. Knock before entering and asking for a snack — paper writing in progress…
January 2023
Our collaboration with the Liu lab makes Best of Cell 2022!
December 2022
Our foray into microbiology goes live: M3-seq is released on bioRxiv. Congrats to Bruce and Aaron!
November 2022
Undergraduates Milan Schillaci and Yanna Bravewolf join the lab. Welcome!
Bruce presents his work at the Princeton BioEngineering colloquium!
October 2022
A big month for the Adamson lab:
Yangwode Jing joins the lab! Our first Chemistry graduate student.
Sabrina gets a Teaching Award for her work as a preceptor for MOL 101! Congrats Sabrina!
Jun and Bruce both present their work at the annual MOL Retreat!
Britt and Aaron both give talks at the annual NHGRI CEGS meeting!
The lab celebrates halloween by wearing CRISPR related costumes!
August 2022
Britt co-organizes the CSHL Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting!
Ann adopts Fig — the newest Adamson lab member who plans to pursue cat tree modeling.
June 2022
The lab says farewell to Purnima, who is beginning her journey at Weill Cornell for graduate school in the fall! Congrats Purnima (but you will be missed)!
Lab attends the MOL picnic and catches the Princeton tiger just in time for a photo.
May 2022
Anmoldeep Singh finishes his undergraduate thesis and graduates — Congratulations Anmol!
Katya Williams starts her undergraduate thesis in the lab.
April 2022
Britt gets awarded a Schmidt Technology Grant for her collaborative work with the Posfai Lab!
The lab gets a third BSC. More cell culture space!
January 2022
Ryan passes his qualifying exam!
December 2021
Sabrina passes her qualifying exam!
October 2021
August 2021
Britt co-chairs the session on DNA Repair at the virtual Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers meeting
June 2021
The lab continues to grow:
Sabrina Solley joins the lab! Our second MOL graduate student.
Ryan McNulty joins the lab! Our fourth QCB graduate student.
May 2021
Katie Tam finishes her undergraduate thesis and graduates — Congratulations Katie!
Anmoldeep Singh starts his undergraduate thesis in the lab.
Aaron awarded a Damon Runyon Fellowship Award — Congratulations Aaron!
January 2021
June 2020
Bruce Wang joins the lab! Our third QCB student.
Lab space reopens for socially distanced science. Britt is so glad to be back at the bench!
April 2020
Britt named as a 2020 Searle Scholar!
Ann awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — Congratulations Ann!
Britt receives Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Investigator Award!
Lab receives grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for work with Ayroles Lab.
March 2020
Direct capture Perturb-seq published in Nature Biotechnology! See write-up from Princeton.
Britt gives talk at virtual CSHL Systems Biology meeting.
Just one year after our lab space opens, we close up our benches and move to a fully digital platform due to COVID-19.
January 2020
Danny and Ann pass their qualifying exams!
December 2019
Jun passes his qualifying exam!
Britt visits Department of Embryology at Carnegie Institution for Science.
August 2019
Britt gives a talk at the First Meeting of the International Human Germline Genome Editing Commission.
July 2019
Jia Ling joins the lab as our first postdoc!
June 2019
QCB students Ann Cirincione and Danny Simpson join the lab!
May 2019
MOL student Jun Yan joins the lab as our first graduate student!
March 2019
Our hoods arrive. The end of construction is in sight!
February 2019
Our experimental bubble is set up inside the construction tarps.
Britt gives a talk at Genome Engineering the Keystone Symposia Conference.
January 2019
Sherry and Purnima join the lab.
September 2018
The lab officially opens in the Icahn Laboratory.
Image of Icahn Laboratory courtesy of Rafael Viñoly Architects.