Check out our recent publication, where we identified a key regulatory DNA element that controls expression of the disease-associated gene MMP9 in human placental cells. By dissecting this element at high resolution, using reporter assays and CRISPR-Cas9, we uncovered both activating and repressive regions within a 1kb regulatory element, revealing unexpected complexity in how MMP9 expression is controlled. Congrats to all of the authors who put in a lot of hard work on this manuscript!

Congrats to our recent graduates, Ashwini Rangaraj and Kelby Kies!

Congratulations to Kelby Kies, who defended her Master's thesis today in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology! A job well done!

Geetu Tuteja was featured on the Pew podcast, From Lab to Life!
Listen to learn more about her background and research.

 Congratulations to Ashwini Rangaraj who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Because of some bad weather and partial university closure, Ashwini had to move her defense online yesterday. Today we were able to celebrate in person with her family!

The Tuteja lab is excited to welcome two new members:
Lucky Gbeda, a student in the Genetics and Genomics PhD program, and Keting Chen, PhD, a research scientist. 

Kelby Kies and Sabrena Rutledge won poster awards at GDCB research day! Congrats to both!

Ashwini Rangaraj was recognized for winning the university 3MT competition, and Sabrena Rutledge was recognized for her travel award at the GDCB awards luncheon. Congrats to both!

Ashwini Rangaraj was one of the top 10 finalists at the Midwest 3MT competition! Congratulations on this massive achievement!

 Sabrena gave an excellent oral presentation at the Society for Reproductive Investigation meeting in Vancouver in March.  She also got the People's choice award for her talk at the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Symposium! Congratulations, Sabrena!