Department of Cell Biology

Lab News and Events

January 2025

At the end of January, the Brugge Lab celebrated long-time lab member Kenneth Gray, as he moves on to do his post doc at Dana Farber. Kenneth was Joan's final graduate student, so we celebrated hard by going bowling at Lucky Strike! Farewell, Kenneth!

December 2024

The Brugge Lab celebrated the holidays this year with a delicious lunch at La Morra! We had our infamous lab Yankee Swap, where Joan received a tortilla blanket (as shown in the photo). 

January 2025

The lab bid farewell to Carman Li, who is starting her own lab at UPenn. Contact Carman.LiatPennMedicine.UPenn.edu (Carman) to join her team!

December 2024

Congratulations to Nomeda Girnius and co-authors on their Breast Cancer Research study on Cilengitide sensitivity, done in collaboration with Augustin Luna and former postdoc Yannis Zervantonakis! 

December 2024

Thumbs up to Kung-Chi Chang and co-authors on their study published in NPJ Breast Cancer! Our lab's new organoid suspension culture system can retain long-term estrogen receptor expression and responsiveness.

November 2024

Congrats to Mike Oliphant and his co-authors on their recent study in Nature Genetics on copy number variations in human breast epithelial cells of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and noncarriers! 

November 2024

Check out our lab's latest Nature Genetics paper on new insights into BRCA1 hereditary breast cancer (and read the press release here and here). Thumbs up to postdoctoral fellow Carman Li and the team!

October 2024

The lab had a great time at this year's Cell Bio Retreat. The Brugge Olympics Team won a glorious victory at the Halloween costume competition, thanks to an impressive breakdancing performance from our bioinformatist, Jaeyong Kang! 

October 2024

Celebrating Francesca and Gianmarco. Congrats to the newlyweds!

April 2024

The lab cheering for Kung-Chi at the Boston Marathon. Way to go Kung-Chi!

Thumbs up to Klarisa and Mayura for presenting their work at the Harvard Research Associate Symposium!

August 2023

Another fun lab outing to a Sox Game in Fenway Park!

May 2022

Our lab's breast single-cell atlas is now out in Developmental Cell. Congratulations to the lead authors, Kenneth Gray, Carman Li, Jennifer Rosenbluth, and Laura Selfors, as well as our collaborators! 

October 2021

Congratulations to Johan Kuiken and Sabin Dhakal for publishing their study on tumor clonal dynamics in Oncogene!

September 2021

Congratulations to Jason Zoeller for joining AstraZeneca as an Associate Principal Scientist! We will miss you, Jason.

August 2021

Yaara Oren published her study on cancer cell drug resistance in Nature. Check out the paper here!

June 2021

The lab bid farewell to Jennifer Rosenbluth, who is starting her own lab at UCSF! Contact Jennifer.RosenbluthatUCSF.edu (Jennifer) to join her team.

Congratulations to Hana Shapiro and Christina Tsiobikas on starting their MD training at Drexel University College of Medicine and Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, respectively!