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📡 LAB NEWS _

2026

May 2026

Lab receives grant from the Collaborative Center for XDP Research (CCXDP)!

May 2026

Nicholas Patty (IQ Bio/MCDB) joins the lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!

May 2026

Ed gives invited talks at Clemson University symposium “Shining Light on the Dark Genome” and Jackson Lab Long Read Workshop.

Apr 2026

Ed presents at AAI meeting (Boston).

Mar 2026

Ed gives seminar at University of Utah Dept. of Human Genetics.

Feb 2026

Ed gives invited talk at U. Miami Cancer Center symposium.

Jan 2026

Atma and Holly publish honey bee genome paper in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

2025

Nov 2025

Holly co-authors first whole genome assembly of ball python in G3. Ed gives seminar at UC Irvine.

Aug 2025

Lynn Sanford and Mia Chaw join the lab. Welcome!

Jul 2025

Carolina receives NIH T32 Data Science training grant.

Jun 2025

New paper in collaboration with Russell Vance’s lab (Berkeley) in Nature on the SP140–RESIST pathway and interferon mRNA stability.

Jun 2025

Ed receives the Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old STAR Award ($1.25M over 5 years).

Jun 2025

Ed gives invited talk at Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution (Easton, MA).

Apr 2025

Ed gives invited talks: EMBO Mobile Genomes (Heidelberg), Genetics Society UK (Belfast).

2025

Ed promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

2025

Ed gives seminars: CU Anschutz, The Crick (London), U. Toronto Donnelly Centre.

Jan 2025

Ed, Atma, and Olivia attend the Barbados Workshop on Pangenome Graphs.

2024

Dec 2024

Giulia, Holly, Atma, and Olivia publish IFNAR2 decoy receptor paper in Cell. Featured in CU Boulder Today and Nature Reviews Immunology.

Oct 2024

Ed gives invited talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Transposable Elements meeting.

Jul 2024

Atma and Olivia publish LTR10 cancer enhancer paper in Science Advances. Featured in CU Boulder Today, NCI Cancer Currents, and Medscape.

2024

Adam publishes SP140/ERV paper in Human Molecular Genetics.

2024

Lily publishes EHMT1/2 inhibition paper in Molecular Cancer Research.

2024

Ed receives CU Boulder Graduate School’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.

2024

Jimmy Pazzanese joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.

2024

Giulia receives NIH/NIGMS K99/R00 fellowship.

2024

Lily and Lily publish EHMT+PARP combination paper in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

2023

2023

Carmen Buttler defends PhD — now a Scientist at Darwin Biosciences. Congrats Carmen!

2023

Bella and Conor publish B2 SINE enhancer paper in eLife.

2023

Ed receives Regeneron Young Investigator Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (Athens, Greece).

2023

Giulia receives Sie Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2023

Keala Gapin receives Astronaut Scholarship.

2023

Ed gives invited talk at Keystone Symposia on Transposable Elements (Whistler, BC).

2023

Carmen publishes LINE-1/IFNAR1 paper in Mobile DNA.

2022

2022

Conor publishes bovine TE immunity paper in Genome Research.

2022

Giulia publishes bat IFN/TE dynamics paper in Mobile DNA.

2022

Ed selected as Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jun 2022

Holly Allen joins as Lab Manager. Welcome Holly!

2022

Olivia Joyner joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.

2022

Ed gives invited talks: Forbeck Forum on Cancer and Genomic Dark Matter (Asilomar), Colorado Molecular Cellular Oncology Retreat.

2021

2021

Andrea Ordonez joins as PhD student. Receives NIH T32 Signaling training grant.

2021

Ed gives invited talk at Keystone Non-Coding RNAs (Palm Springs).

2020

2020

Ed receives Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

2020

Giulia Pasquesi joins as postdoc.

2019

2019

Ed receives Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology.

2019

Ed gives invited talks: FASEB Mobile DNA (Rancho Mirage), Society for Investigative Dermatology (Chicago).

2018

2018

Lab opens at the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder!

2018

Ed receives NIH R35 MIRA Outstanding Investigator Award and Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.

2018

Atma Ivancevic and David Simpson join as founding lab members.