NEWS
2024
Feb 27: We are so excited to welcome our BBS rotation student, Maria Amodeo!
Feb 12: Congratulations to Shaoni on being awarded a grant from the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research.
We are grateful for the support and excited to see what Shaoni discovers next!
Feb 7: We congratulate Anna on finishing her Masters research and wish her and Jinrou
best of luck as they go onto their next steps of PhD research.
Jan 8: Kyle Erlenbeck joins as our new lab manager.
2023
Dec 1: Congratulations to Richard on recieving an NIH F31 NRSA fellowship!
Oct 16: Welcome to our new BBS rotation student, Shivani Bhandarkar.
Oct 11: Dae Hee Hwang joins as a new postdoctoral fellow.
Sep 7: Our paper revealing a role of eIF3d in chronic ER stress and the persistent integrated stress response is published at Molecular Cell!
Congratulations Shaoni and Maria.
Read it here:
eIF3d controls the persistent integrated stress response.
Aug 16:
We wish Mikayla best of luck as she finishes her SPARC program and returns to U Mass Boston.
July 25:
Congratulations to Anna on being awarded a
Bayer Foundation Fellowship!
July 17: Anna Drabarek joins us from the Technical University of Munich for her Masters thesis.
July 14: Congrats to Maria and Ngan on their very successful time in the lab. We will miss them dearly and wish them all the best as they go to their next steps of joining the Harvard BBS and UC Berkeley MCB PhD programs.
July 10: Jinrou Li joins us from Peking University as an undergraduate researcher.
June 2: Welcome to Mikayla Cantone, who is joining us from U Mass Boston as an undergraduate researcher through the SPARC program.
May 12: Richard wins a best poster award at the DFCI CIV retreat.
April 27: Congratulations to Hunter on a great senior honors thesis presentation. We wish him the best on his next steps and will miss having him in the lab.
April 24: Congrats to Maria for winning best poster at the HMS Research Association Poster Symposium!
April 18: Jasmine is named a 2023 Honorary Landry Fellow by the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium!
April 7: Jasmine continues to be amazing and passes her qualifying exam!
March 29: Congratulations to Jasmine for being awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 22: Jasmine is awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship!
March 20: Jess Tran joins the lab as a research technician.
2023
Oct 16: Welcome to our new BBS rotation student, Shivani Bhandarkar.
Oct 11: Dae Hee Hwang joins as a new postdoctoral fellow.
Sep 7: Our paper revealing a role of eIF3d in chronic ER stress and the persistent integrated stress response is published at Molecular Cell! Congratulations Shaoni and Maria.
Read it here: eIF3d controls the persistent integrated stress response.
Aug 16: We wish Mikayla best of luck as she finishes her SPARC program and returns to U Mass Boston.
July 25: Congratulations to Anna on being awarded a Bayer Foundation Fellowship!
July 17: Anna Drabarek joins us from the Technical University of Munich for her Masters thesis.
July 14: Congrats to Maria and Ngan on their very successful time in the lab. We will miss them dearly and wish them all the best as they go to their next steps of joining the Harvard BBS and UC Berkeley MCB PhD programs.
July 10: Jinrou Li joins us from Peking University as an undergraduate researcher.
June 2: Welcome to Mikayla Cantone, who is joining us from U Mass Boston as an undergraduate researcher through the SPARC program.
May 12: Richard wins a best poster award at the DFCI CIV retreat.
April 27: Congratulations to Hunter on a great senior honors thesis presentation. We wish him the best on his next steps and will miss having him in the lab.
April 24: Congrats to Maria for winning best poster at the HMS Research Association Poster Symposium!
April 18: Jasmine is named a 2023 Honorary Landry Fellow by the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium!
April 7: Jasmine continues to be amazing and passes her qualifying exam!
March 29: Congratulations to Jasmine for being awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 22: Jasmine is awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship!
March 20: Jess Tran joins the lab as a research technician.
2022
Dec 1:
Congrats to Shaoni for being named a Helen Gurley Brown Fellow!
Oct 31:
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Hyeongju Kim.
Oct 4:
Congrats to Fatima for being awarded a AACR-Mirati Cancer Chemical Biology postdoc fellowship!
Oct 1:
Congrats to Max for being awarded a Branco Weiss postdoc fellowship!
Sep 6:
Welcome to our new Virology rotation student, Zhengyu Li.
Aug 29:
Jasmine Garcia (BBS) joins the lab for her dissertation research.
July 11:
Jing Guo joins the lab as a research technician.
June 6:
Christina Liu joins the lab as a research technician.
May 22:
Luochen is awarded the Brandeis Biology Department Award for Excellence in Research and graduates with highest honors for her thesis research! We look forward to watching her continue her scientific career as she heads off to join the Harvard Virology PhD Program.
May 15:
Hsin-Yu Tsai joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar.
May 6:
Congrats to Maria on receiving a poster award at the annual DFCI CIV departmental retreat.
May 4:
Congrats to Luochen on a wonderful undergraduate honors thesis defense.
April 21:
Our review discussing alternative functions of translation factors in gene regulation, within and beyond protein synthesis is published at Trends in Cell Biology. Congratulations Dorian and Sadie.
Read it here:
Moonlighting translation factors: multifunctionality drives diverse gene regulation.
April 8:
Amy is selected as a 2022 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow.
March 28: Our paper revealing a new function for
the eIF5A2 protein in regulating an intrinsic antiviral gene expression program is published at JMB!
Congratulations Dorian and Luochen.
Read it here:
Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A2 regulates expression of antiviral genes.
March 21:
Hunter Noyes joins the lab as a new undergraduate researcher from Emmanuel College.
January 10:
Welcome to our new BBS rotation student, Jasmine Garcia.
2021
December 1:
Our research is supported by a Basic Research Grant from the DFCI Innovations Research Fund.
November 15:
Our collaboration with the Daley lab on posttranscriptional control of metastasis by LIN28B is published at JCI.
November 1: Our research is supported by a V Scholar Grant from the V Foundation.
October 16:
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Max Fels.
October 1:
Our lab is supported by a grant from The Mathers Foundation.
September 20:
Konstantin Fischer joins the lab as a Masters student.
August 23:
Ngan Phan joins the lab as a research technician.
August 16:
Our lab is funded by a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA R35) from NIH NIGMS!
August 16:
Fatima Alghoul joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar.
July 14:
Our collaboration with the Kranzusch lab on cGAS-like receptor sensing of RNA in Drosophila is published at Nature.
June 18:
We bid farewell to Kate, who heads off to join the CU Denver PhD program.
June 7:
Maria Amodeo joins the lab as a research technician.
May 21:
Congrats and farewell to Sadie, who graduates with highest honors for her thesis research. We wish her luck as she heads off to join the Harvard Virology PhD Program.
May 11:
Sadie is awarded the Doris Brewer Cohen Award in Chemical and Biological Sciences!
May 7:
Congrats to Sadie on a fantastic undergraduate honors thesis defense.
May 6:
Congrats to Dr. Becca Fleming on her successful PhD defense! We wish her all the best as she heads off next to a Scientist position at Translate Bio.
March 16:
Welcome to our BBS rotation student, Manasvi Verma.
January 25:
Welcome to our Virology rotation student, Gabrielle Law.
2020
December 3:
The Lee Lab moves into DFCI Smith 5!
December 1:
The Lee Lab joins DFCI Cancer Immunology + Virology and HMS Cell Biology!
November 13:
Our paper describing a new mechanism of translation reprogramming that is critical for the cellular response to metabolic stress is published at Science!
Read it here: A phosphorylation-regulated eIF3d translation switch mediates cellular adaptation to metabolic stress.
July 23:
Our lab with the Bellono lab receive a Harvard/MIT Joint Basic Neuroscience Grant to fund our collaborative project understanding how organisms respond to the environment based off their physiological state.
July 15: Welcome to our new postdoc Shaoni Mukhopadhyay.
June 30: We bid farewell to Kayla, who heads off to University of Oregon to join their PhD program.
June 24: Congrats to Luochen for being awarded the Professor Chandler Fulton Prize for Undergraduate Research!
June 15: Our collaboration with the Kranzusch lab on how Cap4 proteins recognize nucleotide second messengers and subsequently degrade DNA to protect bacteria from phage infection is published at Cell.
May 26: Our collaboration with the Bellono lab to understand the molecular basis of anemone stinging cells is published at eLIFE.
May 15: Richard Han joins the lab as an MCB PhD student.
April 29: Congratulations to Luochen for being selected as a Schiff Undergraduate Fellow!
April 2: Sadie and Luochen are awarded Division of Science summer undergraduate research fellowships!
2019
November 4: MCB rotation students Will Dahl and Richard Han start in the lab.
October 8: Luochen Liu joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
August 8: Welcome to Hsiao-Yun Chen, our new joint postdoctoral scholar with the Kranzusch Lab.
July 9: Our collaboration with the Blower and Berger labs to understand drug discrimination by topoisomerases is published at NAR.
July 1: Welcome to our new research technician, Kate Segar.
May 28: Becca passes her qualifying exam!
May 19: Adam, Maia, and Annie graduate today, all three receiving highest honors for their thesis work!
May 14: Adam is awarded the Doris Brewer Cohen Prize in Chemical and Biological Sciences!
May 6: Adam, Maia, and Annie gave amazing senior honors thesis talks today!
April 23: Our bioinformatics collaboration with the Kranzusch lab to reveal how signaling adaptation evolved for the STING-dependent immune response is published at Cell Reports.
April 18: Mo is awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship!
April 3: We are so proud of Adam, who will be heading to Columbia University, and Maia, who will be attending UC Berkeley, as PhD students this fall!
March 28: Congratulations to Sadie for recieving a Division of Science Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and being chosen as a 2019-2020 Schiff Undergraduate Fellow!
February 20: Our collaboration with the Kranzusch lab to discover a new class of bacterial cGAS-like enzymes is published at Nature.
January 16: Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers, Adrian Ashley and Audrey Zhu.
2018
November 9: Welcome to our new undergraduate researcher, Sadie Antine.
July 2: Welcome to our new post-doctoral scholar, Monifa Fahie.
June 14: Amy is named a 2018 Pew Biomedical Scholar!
June 1: Congratulations and farewell to Sam, who is heading off to grad school! Also, welcome to our new Research Technician, Kayla Ladd.
May 3: We are thrilled that Becca Fenn has joined the lab as our first MCB PhD graduate student!!
May 2: Congratulations and goodbye to Brad, who is graduating Brandeis this May.
April 3: All of our undergrads have been awarded summer research fellowships. Congrats Adam, Annie, and Maia!
April 2: Welcome to our new post-doctoral scholar, Dorian Farache.
March 19: Welcome to our MCB rotation student, Jenny Choi.
March 16: Maia is featured in the Brandeis Academic Fellowships Scholar Spotlight!
January 15: Happy new year and welcome to our MCB rotation student, Erick Barrios.
2017
November 6: Welcome to MCB rotation students, Michela Zaffagni and Meghan Harris.
October 30: Bradley Bousquet joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
September 26: Adam Lamper joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
September 5: Welcome to our MCB rotation student, Rebecca Fenn.
April 10: Maia Reyes is awarded a Brandeis Provost's Undergradate Research Fund Summer Fellowship!
March 31: Amy is named a 2017 Searle Scholar!
March 27: Annie Huang is awarded a M.R. Bauer Foundation Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
March 6: Welcome to our new MCB rotation student, Albert Yu.
March 1: The Lee Lab moves into our newly renovated space on the 4th floor of Rosenstiel.
Feburary 21: Amy is awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship!
January 26: Maia Reyes joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
January 16: We are excited to have our research on why incorrect translation regulation leads to congenital disorders funded by the Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program.
January 3: Happy new year and welcome to our Biochemistry rotation student, Anna Henkin.
2016