News

February 20, 2024 Publication Transposable Elements

New paper in Cell Reports

Our systematic evaluation of retroviral LTRs as cis-regulatory elements in mouse embryos was published in Cell Reports.

January 31, 2024 Talk

ZY delivers CCRF seminar

ZY gave a seminar titled “Decoding chromatin reprogramming and retrotransposon activation when life begins” at the CCRF DB seminar series.

January 11, 2024 Publication

First Chen Lab paper accepted!

Celebration of the first Chen lab paper “in principle” acceptance! Cheers!

December 22, 2023 Lab Life

Lab holiday celebration

Lab gathered for holiday festivities.

December 12, 2023 Award Funding

Lab receives CCHMC Trustee Award

We are excited to receive the Trustee Award ($200k over two years) from Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation for studying retrotransposon function in mammalian early development.

October 11, 2023 Talk

ZY presents at CCHMC Regulatory Genomics Forum

ZY presented “Systematic perturbation of thousands of retroviral LTRs” at the CCHMC Regulatory Genomics forum.

July 31, 2023 New Member

Welcome Dr. Jian Yang!

Welcome Dr. Jian Yang to our lab!

June 5, 2023 New Member

Welcome Lauryn Cook!

Welcome Lauryn Cook to our lab!! The Chen lab is growing!

May 19, 2023 Talk

ZY speaks at Division Retreat

ZY gave a talk titled “Decoding epigenetic regulation in early development” at the Division of Developmental Biology annual retreat.

January 3, 2023 Award Funding

Successful K99-to-R00 transition!

We successfully made the K99-to-R00 transition! The 3-year R00 award will support research to systemically dissect the mechanisms and functions of PcG proteins in mouse early development using the cutting-edge low-input chromatin profiling and rapid protein degradation techniques.