Our MD/PHD student Tyler Jensen successfully defended his PHD! Congratulations Tyler!

SAVE THE DATE! Friday 4/19/24 Genetics Seminar Speaker Dr. Wie Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University, will present 'Decoding the transcription circuitry when life begins.' Link below...
medicine.yale.edu/event/gensem04…
All Yale School of Medicine Affiliates welcome...

AFAY is delighted to host a seminar on April 19 by Dr. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine Family of Journals, titled “Let’s stick together: Sustaining the scientific record and scientific community during chaos”. Yale University Yale UniversityMed YaleGSAS Yale UniversitySPH Yale Daily News

‘A new world of genes’: School of Medicine Professor Haifan Lin receives prestigious Amory Prize - Yale Daily News. Congratulations to AFAY Board Member Professor Haifan Lin! yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/03/2…

Our Asian Faculty Association at Yale Asian Faculty Association at Yale is a proud ally of this historic effort. Thank you Asian American Scholar Forum for leading this great success!

AASF succeeded in preventing the relaunch of the ‘China Initiative.’ AASF led, with partners, nearly 50 orgs in opposition of the reinstatement, detailing the “chilling effect” it would have on Asian American scholars. bit.ly/3TrO0JJ

(1/2) New paper from KL Kim Gilbert J. Rahme (He/him/his) Brad Bernstein Gene Regulation Observatory with RCMC contribution from Viraat Goel ASHansen Lab

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Quantitative dissection of how loss of a CTCF insulator boundary in GIST causes aberrant enhancer-oncogene interactions

.Asian American Scholar Forum extends thanks again to White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Dir. Arati Prabhakar + Deputy Asst. to the President & Sr. Liaison to AA&NHPI Erika L. Moritsugu + White House staff for inviting us to this roundtable. [1/5] bit.ly/3UYyeam

I am humbly honored to join this distinguished group of colleagues newly elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

A new Nature Portfolio article features perspectives from across AASF leaders & pioneers: Dr. Gang Chen, Dr. Kai Li, Dr. Steven Chu, Dr. Yiguang Ju, Dr. Yu Xie & ED Gisela Perez Kusakawa. It highlights the loss of talent & scrutiny academics faced. go.nature.com/3Ik2moW [1/7]

From battling muscular dystrophy to leading groundbreaking research at Yale, Monkol Lek's Monkol Lek journey is an inspiration to us all. His TEDx talk sheds light on his incredible odyssey in genomic medicine and rare diseases. Watch his story unfold: youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6a2D…

The anti-China academic panic is hurting America | The Hill thehill.com/opinion/educat…

Thanks NAVBO for highlight our publication!

🤩🤩🤩 Spatial Omics fans, I am super excited to share our latest manuscript!!! 🤩🤩🤩
#spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecell

Spatially Exploring RNA Biology in Archival Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissues
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AFAY 2024 Annual Gathering was successfully held yesterday. AFAY and Yale leadership summarized our achievements and the challenges our community face. We then voted on our official logo and had a multicultural celebration of the new year. Thank you to all members and volunteers!

Congratulations to AFAY Board Member Dr. Haifan Lin for receiving the prestigious Francis Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! amacad.org/news/haifan-li…

More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers urged congressional leadership to halt the potential reinstatement of the China Initiative, a controversial Trump-era program that once led to accusations of racial profiling toward Asian scientists in the U.S. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…

Congrats to our colleagues Jun, Dianqing and their teams on this amazing discovery. RNAs do work outside of cells, too news.yale.edu/2024/01/22/rna…