Lab News

February 2024

A new preprint from Jonathan's postdoc work is now on bioRxiv. New insights into how ribosomal DNA copy number expansion activity is regulated in germ cells!

January 2024

Jackson Chen has joined the lab as a research technician!

November 2023

The most recent paper from Jonathan's postdoc is now published in PNAS! Why do germline stem cells need to divide asymmetrically? So they can keep the chromosomes with more rDNA!

September 2023

Stony Brook undergraduate researchers Abijot and Tomasz join the lab! They are working to identify genes that regulate germline rDNA copy number maintenance activity.

The Nelson Lab is now open in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and the Center for Developmental Genetics at Stony Brook University!