LAB NEWS _
2026
Lab receives grant from the Collaborative Center for XDP Research (CCXDP)!
Nicholas Patty (IQ Bio/MCDB) joins the lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!
Ed gives invited talks at Clemson University symposium “Shining Light on the Dark Genome” and Jackson Lab Long Read Workshop.
Ed presents at AAI meeting (Boston).
Ed gives seminar at University of Utah Dept. of Human Genetics.
Ed gives invited talk at U. Miami Cancer Center symposium.
Atma and Holly publish honey bee genome paper in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.
2025
Holly co-authors first whole genome assembly of ball python in G3. Ed gives seminar at UC Irvine.
Lynn Sanford and Mia Chaw join the lab. Welcome!
Carolina receives NIH T32 Data Science training grant.
New paper in collaboration with Russell Vance’s lab (Berkeley) in Nature on the SP140–RESIST pathway and interferon mRNA stability.
Ed receives the Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old STAR Award ($1.25M over 5 years).
Ed gives invited talk at Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution (Easton, MA).
Ed gives invited talks: EMBO Mobile Genomes (Heidelberg), Genetics Society UK (Belfast).
Ed promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Ed gives seminars: CU Anschutz, The Crick (London), U. Toronto Donnelly Centre.
Ed, Atma, and Olivia attend the Barbados Workshop on Pangenome Graphs.
2024
Giulia, Holly, Atma, and Olivia publish IFNAR2 decoy receptor paper in Cell. Featured in CU Boulder Today and Nature Reviews Immunology.
Ed gives invited talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Transposable Elements meeting.
Atma and Olivia publish LTR10 cancer enhancer paper in Science Advances. Featured in CU Boulder Today, NCI Cancer Currents, and Medscape.
Adam publishes SP140/ERV paper in Human Molecular Genetics.
Lily publishes EHMT1/2 inhibition paper in Molecular Cancer Research.
Ed receives CU Boulder Graduate School’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
Jimmy Pazzanese joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.
Giulia receives NIH/NIGMS K99/R00 fellowship.
Lily and Lily publish EHMT+PARP combination paper in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
2023
Carmen Buttler defends PhD — now a Scientist at Darwin Biosciences. Congrats Carmen!
Bella and Conor publish B2 SINE enhancer paper in eLife.
Ed receives Regeneron Young Investigator Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (Athens, Greece).
Giulia receives Sie Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Keala Gapin receives Astronaut Scholarship.
Ed gives invited talk at Keystone Symposia on Transposable Elements (Whistler, BC).
Carmen publishes LINE-1/IFNAR1 paper in Mobile DNA.
2022
Conor publishes bovine TE immunity paper in Genome Research.
Giulia publishes bat IFN/TE dynamics paper in Mobile DNA.
Ed selected as Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.
Holly Allen joins as Lab Manager. Welcome Holly!
Olivia Joyner joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.
Ed gives invited talks: Forbeck Forum on Cancer and Genomic Dark Matter (Asilomar), Colorado Molecular Cellular Oncology Retreat.
2021
Andrea Ordonez joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.
Ed gives invited talk at Keystone Non-Coding RNAs (Palm Springs).
2020
Ed receives Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.
Giulia Pasquesi joins as postdoc.
2019
Ed receives Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology.
Ed gives invited talks: FASEB Mobile DNA (Rancho Mirage), Society for Investigative Dermatology (Chicago).
2018
Lab opens at the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder!
Ed receives NIH R35 MIRA Outstanding Investigator Award and Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.
Atma Ivancevic and David Simpson join as founding lab members.