The Gerton Lab welcomes Graduate Researcher Farris Tedder to the lab!

The Gerton Lab enjoyed a fun team building event day at the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium!

Congratulations to Preethi Kunchala on her successful thesis defense!

The Gerton Lab congratulates Siddharth Shivanandan for his acceptance into the GSSIMR predoctoral research program!

The Gerton Lab congratulates Michaey Diez for his acceptance into the GSSIMR predoctoral research program!

Congratulations to Alexandria Cockrell on her successful thesis defense!

The Gerton Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Luis Felipe Ramirez Sanchez to the lab!

The Gerton Lab welcomes visiting scientist Matt Franklin from UCSD!

Congratulations to Anna Galligos for Best Trainee Flash Talk at the 19th Annual Greenwald Symposium!

The Gerton Lab welcomes visiting student Sarah Joseph from Rockhurst University!

The Gerton Lab welcomes postdoctoral research associate Fatimah Aljubran! Fatimah will study the role of genomic instability and infammaging in ovarian function.

The Gerton Lab congratulates Paxton Kostos for her acceptance into the GSSIMR predoctoral research program!

The Gerton Lab welcomes MD/PhD summer rotation student Dana Thalman!

The Gerton Lab welcomes GSSIMR predoctoral researcher Anna Galligos! Anna will study the role of proteostasis in female reproductive aging.

Jennifer Gerton and Roy Jensen, Director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, discuss advances in human centromere research and the benefits of interfacing with patient advocate Mary Frances Haake. https://www.facebook.com/events/d41d8cd9/how-genetics-research-may-transform-cancer-care/511758780593976/

We are excited about the resumption of in-person meetings! Preethi Kunchala and Victoria Hassebroek attend the EMBO workshop on Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy. https://meetings.embo.org/event/22-chromosome-segregation

The human genome is finally assembled from Telomere to telomere. Check out this article in Science by Elizabeth Pennisi with an image from Tamara Potapova, Research Specialist. https://www.science.org/content/article/most-complete-human-genome-yet-reveals-previously-indecipherable-dna

The Gerton Lab welcomes KUMC practicum student Regan Putnam.

Congratulations to Stowers Graduate School predoctoral researcher Sarah Gilmour for passing her qualifying exams!

Jennifer had the opportunity to meet with mentee Sameen Basha at the Women in leadership breakfast at Shawnee Mission West high school. Sameen is a senior bound for a career in medicine.

Congratulations to Wei-Ting Yueh on his successful thesis defense!

The Gerton lab welcomes Dr. Alex Prosser, MD, a visiting scientist from Children's Mercy Hospital. Dr. Prosser will examine repetitive DNA genotypes and their alterations in pediatric cancer.

Emerging roles of the nucleolus, co-organized by Dr. Gerton, was a (virtual) success! Great presentations and interactions. Gerton lab members Lexy Cockrell and Tamara Potapova gave excellent presentations of their exciting projects.

The T2T consortium has achieved a world record!!!

Senior Research Associate Dr. Vijay Pratap Singh won the NIH New Investigator Award for his talk on placental senescence at the International Federation of Placental Associations (IFPA) 2021 conference. Congratulations!

Leo, Tamara, and Matthew contributed to the consortium effort to complete the human genome, an exciting milestone for science!”
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Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last

Tamara Potapova and Lexy Cockrell are presenting their research June 2021 at the OddPols 2021: International Conference on Transcription Mechanism and Regulation.

The complete sequence of the human genome is now available on bioRxiv, contributions from Gerton lab members Leonardo Gomes de Lima and Tamara Potapova. This achievement has been featured in the news, for example by PBS.

The Gerton Lab welcomes summer scholar Emily Burt and research technician Paxton Kostos.

Dr. Gerton served as host for the latest edition of BIG IDEAS @ScienceStowers where she hosted her PhD advisor, Dr. Patrick Brown, Founder and CEO of Impossible Foods.

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Congrats to Vijay Pratap Singh, his paper was Editor's Choice in Science!!!

Sarah Gilmour joins the lab with joint mentorship by SaraH Zanders.

The Gerton Lab welcomed Dr. Judith Campisi from The Buck Institute for Research to present a talk entitled, Cancer and aging: Rival demons?

Dr. Gerton presented talks at UT Southwestern in Houston TX, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Stowers Institute hosted the 2019 ASBMB Symposium, "Emerging Roles for the Nucleolus" with Dr. Jennifer Gerton as the co-organizer. This symposium addressed fundamental questions on nucleolar structure and function, touching on diverse scientific fields such as RNA biology, nuclear organization, gene regulation and genome stability.

Congratulations to Tamara Potopova for her talk and Devika Salim for her poster presentation!

Dr. Gerton presented a talk at the 12th Annual Midwest Yeast Meeting at Northwestern University.

Dr. Gerton presented a talk at the EMBO Workshop on SMC proteins entitled, "Persistent DNA damage impacts development in mouse cohesinopathy models" in Vienna, Austria.

The Gerton Lab welcomed Dr. Brian McStay from the National University of Ireland, Galway, to present a talk entitled, "Nucleolar formation in human cells; a chromosomal perspective"

Congratulations to Devika Salim on her successful thesis defense! Pictured here with her committee.

The Gerton Lab welcomed Dr. Frank Uhlmann from the Francis Crick Institute to present a talk entitled From DNA to Chromosomes - the Role and Functions of SMC Complexes."

Congratulations to Tamara Potopova and Karthik Dhatchinamoorthy for their recent acceptance of the paper Super-resolution microscopy reveals linkages between ribosomal DNA on heterologous chromosomes to the Journal of Cell Biology!

The Gerton Lab welcomed their newest postdoctoral research associate Leonardo Gomes de Lima to the team!

The Gerton Lab welcomed its two new Summer Scholars Eric Ebert and Balashankar Radhakrisha to the team!

The Gerton Lab enjoyed a fun team building event at the Gottlieb Planetarium at Union Station in Kansas City!

Research Specialist Tamara Potapova presented a poster at the EMBO workshop Chromosome Segregation and Aneuploidy in Cascais, Portugal.

The Gerton Lab welcomed their newest postdoctoral research associate Ayantika Gupta to the team!

Congratulations to Wei-Ting Yueh and Alexandria Cockrell for recently passing their qualifying exams!

Gerton Lab postdoctoral research associate Vijay Pratap Singh presented an institute-wide talk at the Friday Science Club, "Persistent DNA damage and senescence in placenta impacts developmental outcomes in mouse cohesinopathy models"

Congratulations to Wei-Ting Yueh and Vijay Singh for the recent acceptance of their paper to the journal Reproduction, Oocyte-specific deletion of Hdac8 in mice reveals stage-specific effects on fertilit

Chris Gamblin made this amazing “gig” poster for my upcoming talk at KU Molecular Biosciences. What a cool idea!
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So awesome to catch up with former lab member Dr. Kenny Lee today! I had the opportunity to talk to his Exploring Medical Careers class at Shawnee Mission East high school about the value of basic research.

Congratulations to Devika Salim and Tamara Potopova (featured cover photo) for the recent acceptance of their papers to the journal Chromosome Research.

Ribosomal DNA and the nucleolus in the context of genome organization.

Ribosomal DNA instability and genome adaptability.

Gerton Lab predoctoral researcher Wei-Ting Yueh presented an institute-wide talk at the Friday Science Club, "A little goes a long way: Cohesin is required in oocytes for fertility"

The Gerton Lab attended a play at the New Theatre Restaurant!

The Gerton Lab welcomed Musinu Zukari and Baoshan Xu for a fun return visit!

Vijay Pratap Singh, a postdoc in the Gerton Lab, attended the annual Center for Trophoblast Research Conference at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr. Singh presented a poster on his efforts to understand how the placenta contributes to Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) using mouse models. In November, Dr. Singh presented a talk “Persistent DNA damage in placenta impacts developmental outcomes in mouse cohesinopathy models” in the Translational Research Seminar Series at SIMR. The presentation was in tandem with one from Dr. Isabelle Thiffault, Director of Translational Genomics at Children’s Mercy Hospital, on diagnosis of CdLS in the age of next-gen sequencing. A full audience was there to discuss the urgent need to develop early diagnostic tools for CdLS and other rare diseases. SIMR is proud to be named a Center of Excellence for research on CdLS by the CdLS Foundation.

Congratulations to Karthik Dhatchinamoorthy on his successful thesis defense! Pictured here with his committee.

Cancer cells may streamline their genomes in order to proliferate more easily

Research from the Stowers Institute provides evidence suggesting that cancer cells might streamline their genomes in order to proliferate more easily. The study, conducted in both human and mouse cells, shows that cancer genomes lose copies of repetitive sequences known as ribosomal DNA.