Former postdocs Scott Youlten, Liyun Miao, and Valerie Tornini have published their work about the fate of embryonic cells lacking key reprogramming factors in Cell Reports. Congratulations Scott, Liyun, Val, and team!
Goodbye Haochen Wang! He’s moving on to a postdoc in the Liu Lab at Yale University.
October 2025
Goodbye Odelya Kaufman! She is moving on to an Assistant Professor position at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Postdoc Srikar Krishna gave a plenary talk at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston. He was awarded the Postdoctoral Trainee Research Excellence Award by the ASHG.
Postdoc Srikar Krishna received the Best Poster Award at the 3rd NYC RNA Symposium, held at the Rockefeller University in NYC.
September 2025
Goodbye Liyun Miao! She’s off to start her own lab at Florida State University.
Annual Giraldez Lab Retreat!
July 2025
New postdoc César Meléndez Ramírez joined the lab. Welcome César!
Postdocs Curtis Boswell and Caroline Hoppe’s work on Genetically Encoded Affinity Reagents (GEARs) in now out at Nature Communications. Congratulations Curtis, Carol, and team!
June 2025
Grad student Haejeong Lee gave an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the RNA Society in San Diego. She was awarded the Travel Award from Yale RNA Center and the RNA Society Research Presentation Fellowship.
Postdoc Alice Sherrard gave an oral presentation during the Hilde Mangold Symposium at the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico.
May 2025
New postdoc Betsy Gilbert joined the lab. Welcome Betsy!
Grad Student Haejeong Lee gave an oral presentation at the Microsymposium on RNA Biology in Vienna, Austria.
Goodbye Ethan Strayer! He’s off to a postdoc at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
March 2025
Ethan Strayer defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Strayer!
Grad student Ethan Strayer’s paper describing NaP-TRAP, a novel assay for measuring translation, is now available at Nature Communications. Congrats to Ethan and all co-authors!
November 2024
A review about the maternal-to-zygotic transition (“MZT”) by postdocs Mina Kojima and Caroline Hoppe is published in Nature Reviews Genetics.
October 2024
Postdoc Alice Sherrard gave an oral presentation at Stowers Research Conferences: Developmental and Cell Biology.
Second year graduate student Ayushi Hegde passed her qualifying exam.
September 2024
Annual Giraldez Lab Retreat – three full days of science and lab bonding!
August 2024
Postdoc Curtis Boswell gave an oral presentation at the International Zebrafish Conference in Kyoto, Japan.
July 2024
Goodbye Valerie Tornini! She’s off to start her own lab at UCLA.
June 2024
Postdoc Srikar Krishna gave an oral presentation at the RNA Society Annual International Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
PhD student Damir Musaev won a poster presentation prize at the RNA Society Conference.
May 2024
Postdoc Valerie Tornini was selected to participate in the prestigious Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute.
Fiona Sievers was awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD fellowship.
Second year graduate students Fiona Sievers and Gal Jaschek passed their qualifying exams.
Ethan Strayer’s new preprint describing NaP-TRAP, a novel assay for measuring translation, is now available. This work was done in collaboration with lab alum Jean-Denis Beaudoin, now assistant professor at UConn.