Anh officially leaves the lab, as he graduates from CWRU (in three years!), and will be attending the Rice University Dept of Bioengineering in the fall to start his PhD. Good luck, Anh!

Find his 5-minute talk about the lab’s recent PLoS Pathogens paper about the impacts of ACE2 protein abundance / expression and sequence differences on SARS-CoV & SARS-CoV-2 infection here.

Our application, titled “Recombinant DNA Technologies for Multiplex Genetic Assays in Human Cells” was funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for General Medical Sciences. This five year, $250,000 direct cost per year grant will support our continued efforts pairing landing pad -based cell engineering with multiplex assays to unlock new aspects of protein and cell biology, as well as improving our understanding of human genetics. Goals include creating generalizable, multiplex methods for functional complementation, fluorescent transcriptional reporters, & large-scale cDNA screening. Thank you NIH NIGMS for supporting us with this wonderful funding mechanism!

The 2021 symposium was held remotely, and videos from roughly half of the talks are posted onto YouTube, at the CMAP_CEGS channel. This includes Kenny’s talk from the workshop portion this year. In contrast to his talk from last year (which really focused on the basic with few specifics), the talk from this year was much more about a specific example fitting into some of those more general considerations (with unpublished data to boot!).

Anh was chosen as a CWRU Coding Scholar, which supports his work analyzing deep mutational scanning data to understand and predict which amino acid substitutions abrogate protein interactions without altering protein abundance. Congats Anh!