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2023 Lab Holiday Party

We had our annual Lab Holiday Party this year at Ryan’s house. We shared excellent food, silly white elephant gifts, and skill at playing nerdy games related...

The Annual Summer Lab Cookout

Our lab had a lot of fun at our annual cookout at Ryan’s house. The food and drinks were so good! We enjoyed talking with each other in person after months o...

BAMnostic Published

Marcus’ paper on an OS-agnostic toolkit for genomic sequence analysis was published in the Journal of Open Source Software!

Welcome Chen

The Mills Lab is happy to welcome Chen Sun as he will be joining the lab for his Ph.D. After having completed rotations in the labs of Dr. Jun Li, and Dr. Yu...

Lunar New Year

The Mills Lab celebrated the new lunar year with festive decorations, and… apologies to our vegan and vegetarian colleages, meat. Delicious. Tasty. Meat. And...

Tony Thesis Defense

The Mills Lab would like to congratulate Tony Chun on his successful Ph.D. thesis defense. His thesis titled “Development and Application of Next-generation ...

Welcome Alex

The Mills Lab is happy to welcome back Alex Weber as she will be joining the lab for her Ph.D. We look forward to many years of shenanigans – rather, many ye...

Xuefang Thesis Defense

The Mills Lab would like to congratulate Xuefang Zhao on her successful Ph.D. thesis defense. Her thesis title “Understanding The Complexity of Human Genomic...

Happy New Year

As the New Year has come, we bid a fond farewell - with delicious cake! - to Alex Weber as she continues with her first year as a Ph.D. student in the Depart...

SPECtre Published

Tony’s algorithm on classifying actively translated transcripts was recently published in BMC Bioinformatics!

Whirly Ball with Boyle Lab

Our lab was recently challenged to Whirly Ball by the infamous “Team Boyle”, and naturally we had to step up and represent ourselves accordingly. It was a gr...

Gargi Farewell

It was a sad day for the Mills Lab as we said our farewells to the lab’s first alumnus, Gargi Dayama. Gargi will be continuing her postdoctoral training in t...

Ewha Invited Talk

Ryan was invited to South Korea to give a seminar at Ewha Womans University over the lab’s work on structural variation. There he met with former colleagues ...

Lab Grill-out

The lab got together for a grillout at Ryan’s house. We broke in his new Big Green egg and had quite the smorgasbord of food and desserts, followed by some p...

DCM&B Annual Picnic

Our lab attended the annual DCM&B annual picnic and had a lot of fun!

UMDF Invited Talk

Gargi’s research into nuclear mitochondrial insertions was selected as a talk at the annual UMDF symposium.

SVelter Published

Xuefang’s paper on resolving complex structural varation was recently published in Genome Biology!