Lab News and Events

The lab bid farewell to Jennifer Rosenbluth, who is starting her own lab at UCSF! Contact Jennifer.RosenbluthUCSF.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!

Carman Li's scRNA-seq analysis on aging mammary glands is published in Cell Reports. Check out the paper here!

Jason Zoeller's work is publisehd in Breast Cancer Resesarch, evaluating the efficacy of combined therapy agents, Navitoclax and EGFR-ADC, in pre-clinical models of triple-negative breast cancer. Congrats Jason!

Suha Naffar-Abu Amara's paper on tumor clonal interaction came out in Nature Communications. Congratulations Suha!  

Nobu Takahashi and Patricia Cho published their paper in Molecular Cell. Congrats!

Congratulations to Yannis Zervantonakis for his publication in PNAS! 

Congratulations to Sabin Dhakal for his new job at Flagship Pioneering!

A big turnout of current and former lab members at the Brugge lab reunion.

Congrats to Jennifer Rosenbluth for receiving the Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award!

The Brugge Lab has a BioRxiv preprint reporting scRNA-seq analysis of aging-associated alterations in the mammary gland! The study is led by Carman Li. 

We bid farewell to Yannis and Isaac, who are starting their labs in University of Pittsburgh and University of Rochester, respectively.

Congratulations to Patricia Cho for successfully defending her thesis and for joining SQZ Biotech after graduation!

Congratulations to Joan for receiving this year's ASCO Science of Oncology Award!

Check out Jason Zoeller's new paper in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics on treating HER2+ breast cancer using antibody-drug conjugate. 

Current and former Brugge lab members met at the AACR Annual meeting. Congrats to Patricia Cho and Kenneth Gray for their Scholar-In-Training awards!

The Brugge Lab bid farewell to Natalie Hendrick and Nobu Takahashi. Natalie will be working as Science Advisor in the Intellectual Property group at Goodwin Procter LLP. Nobu is starting his own research group as Associate Professor at Kyoto University. Good luck to you both!

Two of our talented undergrad students, Alexis Cook and Hana Shapiro, did a great job presenting their research at Northeastern University's annual RISE (Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo) symposium.

Congratulations to Natalie Hendrick for a successful thesis defense!

Also big thumbs up to Isaac Harris for his new paper in Cell Metabolism on glutathione depletion in cancer. 

The Brugge Lab celebrated the new year with a lab lunch.

Also congratulations to Claudia Iavarone on her paper published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, studying combination treatment of high-grade serous ovarian cancer!

Two thumbs up to Suha Abu Amara and Yaara Oren for giving their outstanding talks on tumor heterogeneity and drug resistance, respectively, in the EACR-AACR-ISCR Conference!

The Brugge Lab is also proud to have won both the Best Halloween Costume Award and Best Carved Pumpkin Award in this year's HMS Cell Biology Departmental Retreat. Big thanks to captain Natalie Hendrick for leading the team!

Congratulations to Yannis Zervantonakis for soon starting his own lab in University of Pittsburg! Check out his lab website and %20Ioannis_Zervantonakishms.harvard.edu (contact him) for lab positions.

Also congratulations to Nobuaki Takahashi for accepting the position of Associate Professor in Kyoto University! %20Nobuaki_Takahashihms.harvard.edu (Email Nobu) if you are interested in applying to his lab.

Hana Shapiro and Michelle Koh did an excellent job presenting their summer research projects at Harvard's CRISP and PRISE undergraduate symposiums, respectively. Congrats!

The lab said good-bye to Claudia Iavarone and Jennifer Endress. Jenn is starting her Ph.D. program at Weill Cornell Medical College! Claudia is starting a new position in the Technology Transfer and Innovation office at the European Institue of Oncology (IEO) in Milan, Italy!

The lab bid a bitter-sweet farewell to Jon Coloff before he moves to University of Illinois at Chicago to start his own lab. Good luck Jon! Check out Jon's lab website if you are interested in joining.

Johan gave a great short-talk presentation at the Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Seminar on intratumoral heterogeneity.