Congratulations to Sean who won first place in the 2024 Joslin Poster Day today! This was especially impressive for a post-bac competing against Joslin’s pool of very talented post-docs.
Cudos also go to Shuiling, who won second place in the Poster Day competition! Her RNA degradation studies were a topic of great interest and she did a terrific job presenting the work.
Our Halloween 2024 theme was “Ghosts of Science Past”. Back row, left to right: Preformation (Shuiling), Protein as Genetic Material (Ly), Phrenology (Ola), Geocentrism (Abby), Junk DNA (Santos), and Spontaneous Generation (Sean). Front row, left to right: Larmarkian Theory (Ray), Alchemy (Jean), and Four Humors (Jay).
The lab had a fun summer dinner in the Fenway, and wished our summer undergrads, Lauren and Riley, good luck as they return to school.
Our recent lab bowling night was a fun but bittersweet send-off for Stevens and Peter. Peter is beginning PhD studies at Washington University in St Louis, and Stevens will be attending University of Rochester School of Medicine. We wish them both lots of success!
Ray, Abby and Ola were impressed to discover hidden talents of their teammates.
Analytical thinking and planning ahead, as always!
Our postdocs celebrated new fellowships in May. Congratulations to Ola on receiving the Iacocca Fellowship and to Ray and Albert for successfully competing for Joslin T32 appointments!
Members of the lab attended a symposium on 4/25/24 that celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Harvard Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM).
Stevens at mile 25.7, running on 4/15/24 in the Boston Marathon for Joslin Diabetes Center!
We are proud that our own Abigael Cheruiyot won the poster award at the HIRM symposium this week…..Congratulations, Abby!
Our lab holiday dinner featured awesome food and a Yankee Swap. Unfortunately, Abby was not able to join in. However, we were delighted to welcome new post-doc, Ray Laboy
Abby was accepted to the Keystone Symposia Fellows Program and her manuscript was accepted to Journal of Clinical Investigation! Go Abby!
The lab had a fun kayak outing on the Charles River.
Shuiling and Stevens at Jamaica Pond for the Joslin Fall 5K race, which Stevens organized.
Stevens received his first Med School acceptance today. Congrats!
Congrats to Stevens and Peter who took 1st and 2nd place, respectively, in the Joslin Fellows 5K race at Jamaica Pond!
Abby networked at a recent Leading Edge Symposium at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus.
The lab attended a recent game at Fenway Park.
Red Sox lost to the Rockies, 7-6, but the lab enjoyed the game.
Saron and Joshua joined the group this summer as undergraduate research interns.
Rotating graduate student, Alanis Carmona, joined us for a lab dinner.
We heard great science and had fun at the Joslin Research Retreat on on picturesque Cape Cod.
The lab had fun at the Molecular Metabolism Department Halloween Party.
Albert and his wife welcomed baby Juniper this week.
Congratulations to Abby whose abstract was accepted for a talk for the American Society for Cell Biology Meeting!
Shannon and Stevens made an interesting discovery while defrosting a -20 freezer…
We are back to attend seminars in the Longwood Medical Area in person…
Abby and Busra enjoy collaborating on science….and on fashion as well.
Stevens helped welcome in the holiday season by playing at the annual Tuba Christmas Concert at Boston’s Downtown Crossing.
Cudos to Abby for her terrific talk at the Molecular Metabolism Retreat on Thompson Island last week.
Peter and Stevens represented the Schaffer lab in the 9th Annual Joslin Fellows 5K.
…and Abby is completing definitive analyses!
...we are thrilled to be able to shed the masks!
Abby is working a super cool project!
In July, the lab enjoyed a hike up Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts. Stevens, our local expert, was a wonderful guide.
Congratulations to Tae Hyun on his first faculty position!
Artie celebrates his recent first author paper in Nature Communications.
A fun lab lunch and send off for Jess, who will be matriculating in the PhD program in Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison….Good luck Jess!
Congratulations to Abby, Sneha, and Busra, each of whom had another publication from their graduate studies!
Abby enjoyed a recent visit to Crane’s Beach.
The lab recently said goodbye to Sammy Moores who is heading for the PhD program in Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.
Tae Hyun treated us all to delicious rice cakes in the Korean tradition of celebrating his daughter’s 100th day, and even did it COVID-19 compliant!
Tae Hyun, his wife, and daughter welcomed a new baby into their family this week. Best wishes to all!
Artie gave a wonderful thesis defense seminar …COVID-19-style, by Zoom, from his apartment. Congratulations, Dr. Sletten!
Abby arrives in Boston!
Jean introduced the lab to Myers + Chang in the South End. We had a delicious dinner!
Holiday Dinner at Jean’s House
Schaffer Lab East celebrates New England fall by going apple picking
Dan probes the effects of nutrients on the translational program through ribosome profiling.
First lab cell-fie in Boston
Everyone pitched in to pack and unpack during the lab move to Boston.
The Schaffer and Ory labs enjoy lunch together.
We celebrated the winter holidays at Whittemore House at Washington University.
Despite social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Abby, Jess and Sam enjoyed the warm fall weather at our recent lab party.
From the smiles (Tae Hyun, Busra, and Sneha), it appears that bartaco is now a lab favorite.
Abby was featured in a recent profile by the Kenya Scholars Access Program. Check it out here!
Busra’s Covid-19-free bench
McKenna and Artie are all smiles after McKenna’s successful thesis defense.
Sammy had otter-ly wonderful fun in the lab on Halloween.
In her free time, Jess is exploring New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Here she is at Mt. Lincoln on the Franconia Ridge.
Best wishes to Artie and Sonya on their wedding!
McKenna enjoyed the beautiful White Mountains while at the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lipids Gordon Conference in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire.
Jess was selected to present her findings on triple combination therapy in a mouse model of Niemann-Pick C disease in a platform talk at the annual conference of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund in Tucson, Arizona.
A 2017 total solar eclipse party in St Louis.
Joel received a very appropriate gift from Secret Santa….play on!
