10/2021: Our former postdoc Sarah Kim-Hellmuth receives the Adalbert-Czerny Award for our GTEx cell type paper
09/2021: Carmen Bjurström, Marion Korach-André and Mariia Minaeva join the Stockholm lab
05/2021: The Lappalainen Lab opens its doors in Stockholm and now spans two continents
10/2020: Sailalitha Bollepalli and Julia Domingo join the lab!
10/2020: Our preprint of COVID-19 risk factors is out in medRxiv
9/2020: Congrats to Molly for her F32 from NHGRI!
9/2020: The GTEx papers are out, with multiple papers from the lab:
07/2020: Tuuli gets tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Systems Biology
02/2020: Our preprint of mechanism of the IRF1 locus os out in bioRxiv
12/2019: Our NIMH R01 with Harmen Bussemaker is funded
12/2019: Undergraduate researcher Athena Tsu joins the lab
1/2020: Congrats to Elise for her F31 from NHGRI!
12/2020: Congrats to Elise and Silva for NYGC's annual PhD and postdoc awards!
10/2019: Our paper on better transcriptome interpretation in rare disease is out in Science!
10/2019: The GTEx preprints are out! See the main paper, our cell type paper, our CRISPR validation paper, our ASE paper, and the rare variant paper
09/2019: Rotation student Katie LaRow joins the lab
09/2019: Postdoc Anu Pasanen joins the lab
06/2019: Margot defends her PhD thesis!
05/2019: Our preprint on better transcriptome interpretation in rare disease is out in bioRxiv
05/2019: Tuuli receives the Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award!
04/2019: Rotation students Yige Zhao and Nora Lam join the lab
03/2019: Our review paper on genome analysis & interpretation is out in Cell
12/2018: Staff scientist & lab manager Marcello Ziosi joins the lab
11/2018: Postdoctoral resarcher Dafni Glinos joins the lab
10/2018: Our R01 with John Greally for analysis of mechanisms of aging is funded!
08/2017: Our paper on regulatory modifiers of coding variants is published in in Nature Genetics!
08/2018: Molly Martorella, a PhD student, joins the lab
06/2018: Tuuli received the Leena Peltonen Prize for Excellence in Human Genetics
05/2018: Jonah Einson, a PhD student, joins the lab
04/2018: Our Roy and Diana Vagelos pilot grant with Harmen Bussemaker is funded!
03/2018: Our NHLBI R01 for MESA/TOPMed analysis of genetic associations in lung disease is funded!
01/2018: Silva Kasela, our new postdoc, joins the lab
01/2018: Congrats to Stephane for his K99 fellowship!
01/2018: Two new rotation students join the lab: Yocelyn Recinos and Eddie Ruiz
12/2017: Our grant with Chaolin Zhang from Columbia is funded by NIGMS, with Tuuli as a co-investigator
12/2017: Stephane receives the NY Genome Center Outstanding Postdoc 2017 award - congrats!
11/2017: Alper Gokden, our new technician, joins the lab
10/2017: GTEx papers are out in Nature with our companion in Genome Research!
09/2017: Our preprint on regulatory modifiers of coding variants is out in bioRxiv!
07/2017: Elise Flynn joins (i.e. stays in) the lab as a PhD student
08/2017: Our paper on immune response eQTLs & their role in autoimmune disease is published in Nature Communications!
04/2017: Rotation student Elise Flynn joins the lab
03/2017: Bioinformatics analyst Paul Hoffman joins the lab
03/2017: Our new preprint on immune response eQTLs & their role in autoimmune disease is now in bioRxiv
1/2017: Video interview with Illumina
11/2016: Our mini-review of recent work in GWAS and eQTL studies in blood in Cell
12/2016: Our NIH U24 grant with Mt Sinai colleagues for the MoTrPAC Consortium is funded!
10/2016: Congrats to Sarah Kim-Hellmuth for the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship!
09/2016: Rotation student Nick Giangreco joins the lab
08/2016: Visiting student Alejandra Cervera joins the lab
09/2016: Our preprint on quantifying eQTL effect size as allelic fold change in bioRxiv
09/2016: GTEx mid-phase preprints are out, links in GTEx Portal
09/2016: Our paper on phasing and haplotypic expression in Nature Communications
02/2016: Our new preprint on phasing and haplotypic expression in bioRxiv
10/23/2015: Aaron Wolman joins the lab to work as Associate Scientist I
09/30/2015: Tuuli's perspective paper on bridging statistical genetics and molecular biology Genome Research
09/17/2015: Our paper on best practices in allelic expression analysis out in Genome Biology
08/01/2015: Postdoctoral Researcher Sarah Kim joins the lab
06/21/2015: Tuuli's tips for academic trainees in Genome Biology
05/07/2015: The GTEx consortium papers are out! eQTLs & protein-truncating variants in Science, imprinting in Genome Res, and more
03/06/2015: Our preprint on methods in allelic expression analysis is online in bioarXiv
01/29/2015: New paper on tissue-specific genetic & epigenetic regulation with Gutierrez-Arcelus et al. in PLoS Genetics
01/20/2015: Postdoctoral researcher, PhD Pejman Mohammadi joins the lab
01/05/2015: Rotation student Zachery Baker joins the lab
12/01/2014: New paper on GxE and GxG interactions with Buil, Brown et al. in Nature Genetics
10/13/2014: Postdoctoral researcher, PhD Stephane Castel joins the lab
10/31/2014: Our paper on allelic mapping bias is out in Genome Biology. Check out the blog post too!
09/15/2014: Research Assistant Ana Pascoini joins the lab
08/14/2014: New paper on RNA-seq in diverse human populations with Martin, Costa et al. in PLoS Genetics
04/25/2014: New paper on loss-of-function variants with Elaine Lim et al. in PLoS Genetics
07/12/2014: Rotation student Margot Brandt joins the lab - as the first PhD student of the whole NYGC!
04/25/2014: New paper on epistasis with Andrew Brown et al. in eLife
04/20/2014: Senior staff scientist, PhD Ana Vasileva joins the lab
04/20/2014: Part-time bioinformatician Rohan Bareja joins the lab
03/03/2014: Admin assistant Erica Bertisch joins the lab
01/13/2014: Q&A with Tuuli on the NYGC website
01/02/2014: The lab is open!