Marks Lab News
Sarah, Tomas, Abigail & Noor present at the Wellcome connecting science Virus Genomics, Evolution and Bioinformatics conference. Abigail wins best poster!
Nov 2024
Marks Lab presents at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, UK
Nov 2024
Courtney presents at MOML
Nov 2024
Sarah and Tomas present at the MIT-Merck vaccine symposium
Oct 2024
Poster session
Sarah Gurev shared “Unsupervised generative model of antibody escape for the design and testing of variant-proof vaccines” and Tomas Grudny shared “Forecasting H5N1 Evolution for Vaccine Design”
Steffanie Graduates!!!
Congratulations Dr. Paul on your successful defense of “Modelling sequence and structure towards functional protein design” - can’t wait to see all your future endeavors!
July 2024
Ben and Sarah present at the American Society for Virology (ASV) in Columbus, OH
June 2024
Rose & Courtney present at the Medical and Population Genetics Program Talk (Broad Institute)
June 2024
With Lab alumni
Jonathan Frazer and Mafalda Dias!
Abigail passes her qualifying exam!
June 2024
Ruben, Rose, Aaron, and Daniel present at the 7th annual mutational scanning symposium
May 2024
Fiona passes her qualifying exam!
March 2024
Sarah Wins Best Poster at MoML
November, 2023
Conference Information here: https://www.moml.mit.edu/
Welcome post docs Evan & pascal!
july, 2023
Summer students sunny and Annie visit the lab and give two great talks! Good job!!!
may, 2023
DEBBIE MARKS GETS TENURE!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Debbie got tenure
We’re so happy for you!
may, 2023
Alan graduates!!! Congrats - enjoy new york city!!
June, 2022
Sarah WINS the Takeda Fellowship!
June, 2022
Han wINs the Fujifilm Fellowship!
June, 2022
Courtney Shearer joins lab!
April, 2022
Alan wInS the Canadian NSERC fellowship!
April, 2022
Eli WEINSTEIN Graduates!
Congratulations Dr. Weinstein on your successful defense of “Generative Statistical Methods for Biological Sequences” - we hope your post doc at Columbia is extremely fulfilling!
Steff and Han both pass their Qualifying exams !!! February 2022
DAVID DING GRADUATES! JANUARY 4, 2022
David Ding (a joint student between Debbie Marks at Harvard Medical School and Michael Laub at MIT) successfully defended his thesis, “Evolution of interacting proteins through non-specific and non-contacting mutations”. Congratulations Dr. Ding!
JUNE SHIN GRADUATES!
December 20, 2021
Jung-Eun (June) Shin successfully defends her thesis, “Development and validation of computational models for efficient design of biological sequences”. Congratulations Dr. Shin!
june 2021
Hansen Spinner and steffanie paul join the marks lab!
Han has a background in protein engineering and Steff has a background in computational biology. Welcome!
September 28th, 2020
Nathan Rollins Graduates!
Nathan Rollins successfully defended his thesis, “Protein structure and design by genetic experiments” Congratulations, Dr. Rollins!
july, 2020
NDCN annual meeting posters
Members of the Marks lab are presenting virtual posters at the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network (NDCN) Annual Meeting this month! View posters at https://linktr.ee/markslabNDCN
Alan Amin and Rose Orenbuch join the marks lab!
May, 2020
Both are students entering their second year of PhD programs in the Systems Biology. Alan with a background in mathematics and biochemistry. And Rose in computer science and biology.
April 19th, 2019
Anna Green Graduates!
Anna Green successfully defended her thesis, “Molecular phenotypes from evolutionary sequences: Method development and biological applications” Congratulations, Dr. Green!
Adam Riesselman Graudates!
December 12th, 2018
Adam Riesselman successfully defended his thesis, "Building maps from genetic sequences to biological function." Congratulations, Dr. Riesselman!
Debora Marks Awarded CZI Ben Barres Early Career Investigation Award
December 12th, 2018
Debora Marks was recently awarded a 2.5 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to pursue novel neurobiology research. The specific award honors Prof. Ben Barres, an exemplary neurobiologist and a champion for equal opportunities in science. This grant seeks to build a network of early-career scientists who can develop new strategies for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative disease. This multi-year grant will enable new positions in the Marks lab; apply here!
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Press Release
HMS Press Release
John Ingraham Successfully Defends his thesis
August 2nd, 2018
John Ingraham became the first Marks Lab graduate student to defend his thesis, "Probabilistic Models of Structure in Biological Sequences."
Congratulations Dr. Ingraham!
Talk by John Ingraham at Models, Inference, and Algorithms meeting at the Broad
April 17th, 2018
Mutation Effects predicted from sequence co-variation paper
January 16th, 2017
Paper by Thomas, John, Frank, Charlotta, Mike Springer, Chris, and Debbie on EVmutations and how they can be used to predict the effects of mutations came out in Nature online!
Disorder Page and Paper
September 22nd, 2016
Paper by Agnes, Perry, John, Thomas, Bonnie, Chris, and Debbie on alternative conformations in human disordered proteins just came out in Cell!