Angela Brooks

The $300,000 award over four years will be used toward better understanding how cancer mutations affect gene regulation. Read more here or check out the Pew Trusts Press Release.

Angela was featured in April 2017 issue of The Scientist as a scientist to watch!

Posting some old and new news:

• Our paper on the transcriptomic characterization of SF3B1 mutations in CLL was published in November and is featured on the cover of Cancer Cell [link]
• Our lab was awarded a grant from the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group for our work on alternative splicing in cancer [link]
• Max Marin is awarded a Crown College Undergraduate Research Fellowship and the Koret Undergraduate Research Scholarship!

Alexis Thornton joins the lab as a Junior Specialist/Post-Bacc! She will be working on applying eVIP to study transcript variants.

What is eVIP? Our paper with colleagues at the Broad on high-throughput approaches to functionally characterize cancer variants is now officially out as a featured article in Cancer Cell!

A link to the manuscript: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(16)30282-3

A link to Cancer Cell’s Preview on the the manuscript and related studies: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(16)30345-2

Another summary of the manuscript from Broad News: http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/8456

You may notice a lot of new faces in the lab.