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!