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June 2025: We had a fun picnic at Governor's island!
This was also the last week of our technician David, who is moving onto PhD at BU :)
May 2025: Spring cleaning completed, followed by pizza at Sasaki.
May 2025: It is graduation season :) Congratulations to Yetunde, Anh-Thu, Anoushka (and their mentors Daniel and Yuya) for completing undergraduate honors thesis in our lab!
April 2025: A nice spring afternoon for lab lunch saying goodbye to Lily and welcoming Daniel G.
March 2025: Much happened since our last update in April 2024, but most importantly, Avrami and Daniel won the Biology Department Ping pong tournament
Apr 2024: Undergraduate researcher in the lab, Nadia Sadri (mentored by Avrami) defended her undergraduate honors thesis with distinction. She also presented her research last month at the TAGC. Congratulations Nadia!
Mar 2024: It had been a while since we did something fun. So we crammed it all in by doing an Escape Room, Kareoke and Korean barbecue last week :)
From left to right: Emma, Nadia, Sevinc, Anh-Thu, Yuya, Avrami, Daniel, Haoyu, David
Dec 2023: We were all happy to see Ana again for a brief visit to the lab.
From left to right: David, Yuya, Haoyu, Avrami, Helena, Daniel, Sevinc and Ana
In other December news, three undergads in the lab received the DURF grant! Congratulations to Yetunde, Nadia and Anoushka.
June 2023: Congratulations to Jun who defended his PhD thesis! He is going to Janelia for postdoc research in Liu lab. After mastering genomics, Jun will be doing some imaging :) Looking forward to Jun's continuing accomplishments!
June 2022: Ercan lab picnic at Governors Island.
From left to right: Anna, Avrami, Daniel, Jun, Lauren, Ana, Yuya, Ben, Anoushka, Nadia, Ryan, Rawit
May 2022: We have graduates! Rawit got his BS degree and will go to law school at Columbia and Anna got her MS degree and will start her PhD at Brown! Yes, we are still masking in the lab, but happy to be all together again.
From left to right: Daniel, Avrami, Ana, Ryan, Jun, Naida, Yuya, Lauren, Sevinc, Rawit and Anna
Dec 2021: A little fun making movie posters for the department end of semester event. Godzilla vs Ercan Lab from Ana and Rawit, A new lab member looking into dissecting scope is from Yuya, Try hard is inspired by Avrami and badly executed by Sevinc.
A new lab member
Yes, it is the Brown Building
Dec 2021: Jun received the 2022-2023 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship from NYU GSAS. Congratulations Jun!
Dec 2021: Laura Breimann defended her thesis! We would have loved to be with her in Berlin to celebrate. Check out Laura's first slide, which has beautiful images, as always :)
Nov 2021: Contratulations to Nadia Sadri, who received the DURF undergraduate research funds and based on the strength of her proposal, named the Linn-Cohen Family Research Scholar :)
July 2021: Congratulations to Avrami and Jun, who received Developmental Genetics training grant to support their PhD work!
July 2021: Big news to share! David Jimenez defended his PhD thesis, lined up a new job and a baby :) We will miss him and wish him the best!
June 2021: We are excited to have a SURP student this year, Esther Rotlevi will work with Avrami and Jun
June 2021: A postpandemic lab lunch at the Sasaki Garden. Finally an updated lab picture that isn't a Zoom shot:
May 2021: A new PhD student, Yuya Zao joined the lab!
May 2021: Selman defended his PhD! He will continue to work in Tursun lab while they move to Hamburg. Congratulations Selman!
May 2021: Siyu graduated with her MS and will start her PhD at UConn. Congratulations Siyu!
May 2020: Two new PhD students, Avrami and Daniel joined the lab. We are excited to have them on board.
May 2020: Geet (BA) and Anna (MS) graduated. Congratulations to both!
Ercan Lab 2020.mp4May 2020: Movie trailer for the lab prepared during corona times.
January 2020: First lab lunch of the year
May 2019: Congratulations to Bhavana for obtaining her Masters in Biology!
October 2018: Matt Paul defended his thesis with an excellent talk on condensins and genome regulation. Congratulations Dr. Paul!
October 2018: Anna, Parvathy and Bhavana received Masters Research Grants, congratulations!
September 2018: Anna Nixon, a new masters student joined the lab.
June 2018: Annual lab outing to Prospect Park was fun as always!
April 2018: Congratulations to Geet for receiving College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Award.
December 2017: The lab participated in NYU Bio's Lab project runway. Ercan lab, the breakers of cuticle....
October 2018: Anna, Parvathy and Bhavana received Masters Research Grants, congratulations!
September 2018: Anna Nixon, a new masters student joined the lab.
June 2018: Annual lab outing to Prospect Park was fun as always!
April 2018: Congratulations to Geet for receiving College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Award.
August 2017: Lyla and Marge presented their work at ARISE colloquium. Good work!
July 2017: The lab outing at Prospect park was a lot of fun. Ercan lab is a big fan of games and some trash-talking :)
June 2017: Laura, David, Selman and I were at the 2017 International Worm Meeting at UCLA
June 2017: Sarah's paper showing that long-distance cooperation between a hierarchical set of recruitment sites targets the C. elegans DCC to the X is out in Elife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/23645
June 2017: Bhavana entered the undergraduate-masters joint program, and started in the lab for her masters research. Welcome Bhavana!
May 2017: Geet and Diandra joined the lab as undergraduates. Geet successfully obtained a DURF grant, and Diandra a CSTEP fellowship for their summer research. Congrats to both!
December 2016: Sarah defended her thesis with distinction! Congratulations Sarah!
September 2016: Max's paper untangling X chromosome copy number and sex is published in Genetics.
June 2016: Ercan lab members escaped the lab to conquer Escape the Room NYC!
May 2016: Nina Maryn received Biology chairs undergraduate award for her academic and research achievements.
April 2016: Mohammed defended his undergraduate research thesis, and is graduating with honors and receiving multiple undergrad awards for research.
December 2015: Max's paper on DCC and H4K20me1 repression of the X chromosomes is published in PLoS Genetics.
November 2015: Big news!! Max defended his PhD beautifully in less than 5 years in the lab. Congratulations Max, we will miss you!
July 2015: Lena joined the lab as a masters student.
May 2015: Our lab hike Storm King Art Center was quiet and relaxing.
Lab did a wave next to the wavefield.
May 2015: Mohammad received the prestigious GSA undergraduate travel award to attend 2015 international worm meeting in LA. The lab is looking forward to go to the meeting.
May 2015: Sofija and Amanda have graduated. Good luck to both of you!
April 2015: Nina, Krishna and Cecilia joined the lab, and all got their DURF grants for the summer. Congratulations guys.
May 2014: Lara is moving to New York Genome Center. We will miss you Lara..
Prashant, Jacob and Dominic are all graduating. Good luck guys!
May 2014: Our lab hike to Breakneck Ridge mountain was a success. During the steep climb to the mountain, we used four limbs, and thanked (blamed) Lara for organizing :)
May 2014: Our project on ”Mechanisms of X chromosome dosage compensation in C. elegans” is now funded by NIH- NIGMS
March 2014: Matt Paul received The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship!
January 2014: Sofija, Amanda, and Mohammed joined the lab.
Sofija received her Masters research grant.
October 2013: First paper from the lab out at Genome Biology. First look at condensin II binding in a metazoan.
October 2013: The lab moved next door to Li and Hochwagen Labs.
September 2013: Dominic received NYU Biology Master’s Research Grant
June 2013: Sarah, Prashant, Anna and Max enjoyed the 19th international Worm Meeting.
January 2012: We received the Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award for our work on condensin targeting.
January 2012: Uchita received the NYU Biology Master’s Research Grant for her work to determine the condensin binding sites in meiotic nuclei.
October 2011: Max took a close up picture of an embryo. The picture on the left shows DNA in the 15-cell stage C. elegans embryo. The picture on the right is the processed signal. At this stage the embryo is still determining its sex
August 2011: Niyati left the lab to start her PhD
May 2011: Calvin and Christina received Freshman and Sophomore Training Grant
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