Lab News

March 10, 2025 - Connor Davison joins the lab for a rotation!  Welcome Connor!

October 8, 2024 - The lab is awarded an NIH Director's Transformative Research Award, part of NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program!

September 10, 2024 - A collaborative paper with Wei Xie' group on the how the inactive X chromosome folds during early mouse embryogenesis is published!

February 26, 2024 - A collaborative paper led by Yali Dou's group on quiescent embryonic stem cells having unrestricted developmental potential is published!

February 10, 2024 - Becca's comprehensive review on imprinted vs. random X-inactivation is published!

October 23, 2023 - Gabriel Jiminez-Pagan joins the lab for a rotation!  Welcome Gabriel!

August 28, 2023 - Rodolfo Murguia joins the lab for a rotation!  Welcome Rodolfo!

May 31, 2023 - Megan Trotter successfully defends her PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Trotter!

August 29, 2022 - Emily Pogson joins the lab for a rotation!  Welcome Emily!

July 21, 2022 - Marissa Cloutier successfully defends her PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Cloutier!

June 27, 2022 - Asha Hill joins the lab as an high school student researcher!  Welcome Asha!

May 22nd, 2022 - Rebecca wins a Best Poster Award and Clair wins a Best Talk Award at the 3rd Fusion Epigenetics Conference: From Mechanism to Disease!  Congratulations Becca and Clair!

May 11th, 2022 - The manuscript describing the dose-dependent induction of Xist by KDM5C, led by Milan (and, previously, Srimonta), is (also, finally!) published!

May 6th, 2022 - The manuscript describing a role for GSK3 inhibition in the erosion of X-inactivation in human embryonic stem cells, led by Marissa (and, previously, Surinder) is (finally!) published!

May 9th, 2022 - Mehul Kedia joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!  Welcome Mehul!

March 7th, 2022 - Andres Herrera joins the lab for a rotation!  Welcome Andres!

January 5th, 2022 - Dana Beseiso joins the lab for a PIBS rotation!  Welcome Dana!

August 30th, 2021 - Catherine Tower joins the lab for her first PIBS rotation!  Welcome Catherine!

July 28, 2021 - Sundeep quoted in The Atlantic on the importance of the calico cat in an article on cats!

July 16, 2021 - Kritika's last day :(!

June 4, 2021 - Itzaira appointed the University of Michigan Genetics Training Program!

May 1, 2021 - Itzaira joins officially joins the lab for her graduate work!

April 26, 2021 - Marissa Cloutier named the 2021 James V. Neel Fellowship awardee!

March 14, 2021 - Marissa Cloutier awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021-2022!

February 12, 2021 - Kritika gains admission into the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Sundeep's alma mater!)! 

September 14, 2020 - Kritika Kasliwal officially joins the lab for her Master's thesis - welcome Kritika!

August 31, 2020 - Itzaira Mercado-Hernandez joins the lab for her first rotation - welcome Itzaira!

July 2, 2020 - Rebecca appointed the University of Michigan Genetics Training Program!

April 9, 2020 - Megan awarded an NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship!  Congratulations, Becca!

March 23, 2020 - Rebecca Malcore joins the lab for her PhD thesis work - welcome Rebecca!

March 1, 2020 - Sundeep quoted in an article in The Scientist on genes that escape X-inactivation and the health and disease implications of escape.

November 18, 2019 - Valerie Sponyoe joins the lab as a research lab technician - welcome Valerie!

September 9, 2019 - Reina Brodeur joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher - welcome Reina!

September 3, 2019 - Melissa Seman joins the lab as a rotation student - welcome Melissa!

July 3, 2019 - Rebecca Malcore joins the lab as a rotation student - welcome Rebecca!

April 2, 2019 - Maternal EED controlling paternal (imprinted) X-inactivation published in eLife (https://elifesciences.org/articles/44258)!  Congratulations to Clair, Marissa, Megan, and Michael!  And, thanks to many others that contributed on and off over the course of the ten years that it took to complete the study!

February 22, 2019 - Isha Verma joins the lab for post-doctoral work!.  Welcome Isha!

September 4, 2018 - Gregg Myers joins the lab as a rotation student.  Welcome Gregg!

August 13, 2018 - launch of the revamped Kalantry lab website!  (A big thanks to Aaron Bookvich for help with the website redesign!)