The #LabFunEpi turned 8! Thank you for the support and great experiments along the way. And specially a great thank you to Sierra Hamernick for the cake! @wazimismail.bsky.social @yiwenxie.bsky.social

Fusion confenrence on “Stem cells and Cancer” in Malta, is the best way to reunite with my PhD advisor @mrsantos.bsky.social and old friend from UCSF Daniel Lim.

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month!

MD/PhD student Mihai Dumbrava from our #LabFunEpi presenting his work about an epigenetic persister cell signature using single using single cell ATAC+RNA profiling of HGSC patient samples at the AACR Ovarian cancer meeting in Denver CO.

When I was a graduate student the process of DNA de-methylation was a complete mystery. Until Dr. Anjana Rao described for the first time how the TET enzymes mediate the process. It was amazing to meet one of my scientific heroes this week.

Three generations of summer students together for the Rochester mini renaissance fest. #LabFunEpi

Great way to spend the hottest day so far in Minnesota: the MD/PhD (MSTP) retreat at Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Yesterday I was invited by the graduate students to talk about my career path. Did not expect to have so much fun digging into my PhD and postdoc and eventually some undergraduate treasures: Perkinsus atlanticus was my first organism of interest and how I became fascinated with nucleus.

The Ovarian Cancer Midwest focus meeting is now open for registration. Please join in Minneapolis, MN November 10-11 for an amazing line up of speakers including Ernst Lengyel, University of Chicago, and Joan Brugge, Harvard Medical School.

unleashtheshe.wordpress.com The #LabFunEpi joyfully participated in the Unleash the She fundraiser for ovarian cancer!

25ml of water to celebrate the April 25th Portuguese Carnation Revolution!

Our search of a signature if persiter cells using open chromatin and expression with single cell resolution has started. Our paper is out as a pre-print: doi.org/101101/2025..... Work led by MD/PhD student @Mihai Dumbrava and postdoc @wazimismail.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kannan and Weroha.

@wazimismail.bsky.social presenting at the Keystone Symposia Epigenetics in Development and Disease.

Great meeting in Antwerp to discuss novel sequencing technologies. #RNGS2025 #LabFunEpi

Sequencing technologies meet Legoland. #RNGS2025 #LabFunEpi

Great visit to ICBAS- Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences to see the “new” building and to play a little part on the 50th anniversary. Thank you for the invitation Marta Amaro Santos. #LabFunEpi

www.ocmfconference.com Save the date: Nov 10-11, 2025

Marching for science!

#StandUpForScience2025 in #Minnesota - information here, St. Paul, at the Minnesota State Capitol. Friday March 7. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

The MD/PhD student in our #LabFunEpi , Mihai Dumbrava has received an award from FWW! Thank you for the support.

@wazimismail.bsky.social has been selected to present at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social ! If you are around don’t miss his presentation. #LabFunEpi

The Ovarian Cancer Research Syndicate schedule is out from the @pennmedicine.bsky.social Ovarian Cancer Research Center. Great line up!

Happy New Year funny bunch! #LabFunEpi

Happy Holidays from the #LabFunEpi.

New lab “merch” for our holiday party!

doi.org/10.1182/bloo... We are starting to understand the differences between TET2 and DNMT3A mutations at the molecular level and with single cell resolution. Incredible multiomic tour de force by @wazimismail.bsky.social , Jenna Fernandez, @moritzbinder.bsky.social , Mrinal Patnaik and many more.

Great presentation by MD/PhD student Mihai Dumbrava to showcase our NIH/Mayo Ovarian SPORE pilot project to understand the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer. #LabFunEpi #OvarianCancer

Ovarian Cancer Midwest Focus conference: Flash Talk presentation first prize to my student @yiwenxie.bsky.social! Very sharp!

The lab has recently turned 7th. I want to thank all the current and previous members of the laboratory of functional Epigenomics #LabFunEpi at Mayo Clinic.