{"id":39,"date":"2021-04-02T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saimalab.com\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:01:37","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are looking for motivated postdocs and students to join the team!
Email Dr. Ma directly if you are interested. [read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026.02 Together with Dr. Jun Wang’s group at Stony Brook, we are awarded an R21 by NIA! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026.02 Congratulations to Bohan and team for putting together this exciting work! We engineered ME-seq for ultra-high throughput single-cell DNA methylation & RNA co-mapping and identified methylation-mediated priming in aging and Alzheimer’s brain! [read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.12 The spatial human skin atlas paper mapping multiple anatomic sites led by Dr. Andrew Ji’s group is now accepted in Nature Genetics<\/em>!<\/strong> [read <\/a>m<\/a>ore…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.09 Welcome Dawei Tang, who is joining us as a master student to tackle brain functions!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.09 Our collaborative work with Dr. Miriam Merad’s group is now published in Nature! We show that lung tumours prime accessibility for Nfe2l2<\/em> (NRF2) in bone marrow myeloid progenitors, enhancing myelopoiesis while dampening interferon response and promoting immunosuppression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.08 We are excited to partner with Dr. Elvin Wagenblast\u2019s group on an R21-funded project to address Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.07 We just celebrated a major milestone\u2014our first PhD student, Dr. Federico Di Tullio, has officially graduated from the lab! Congratulations, Fred! Wishing you all the best as you start your next chapter at UCSD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.07 Welcome back Ashley Chan as a returning summer intern!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.06 Huge congrats to Brian Soong on his NCI\/NIH F30 award. Incredibly proud of you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.05 Our work with Wei-Chien Yuan, Fernando Camargo and my postdoc mentor Jason Buenrostro is published in Cell Stem Cell<\/em><\/strong>.  We leveraged in vivo<\/em> CRISPR screen and single-cell ATAC to identify HBO1 as a critical barrier to hepatocyte reprogramming. [read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.05 Our previous intern Jiayi Li is accepted as a master student in computational biology at Harvard! Congratulations!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025.03 Our lab is now funded by NIH\/NCI IMAT program to study AML!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024.12 Partnered with Herbert Wu, we are honored to be selected as 2025 FBI scholars!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024.11 With close colleborator Dr. Nan Yang’s team, we designed a new strategy to induce GABAergic neurons for better disease modeling and leveraged single-cell assays to probe the heterogeneity. [read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024.11 Our footprinting paper is accepted in Nature<\/em><\/strong>. We use machine learning to correct Tn5 insertion bias, enabling accurate prediction of TF binding in large-scale scATAC datasets.[read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024.11 Together with George Church’s Lab, we found a new TF ATF3 for rejuvenating human skin [read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024.11 Teamed with Dr. Elvin Wagenblast, we are awarded by the Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation for a pilot award. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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