Lab Culture & Activities
2024 graduate recruitment weekend activities!
2024/3
Patrick Thompson gave a brilliant talk at the recruitment weekend on his thesis work!
The 2nd Annual Lab Retreat!
2024/2
The 2024 lab retreat at the Santa Ysabel Valley was a blast! We discussed science with a lake view, got creative playing with clays, went on a few local hikes, and climbed some trees!
We hosted the January Happy Hour!
2024/1
We are thrilled to host a cozy Happy Hour 🍻 – warm cider, toasty s'mores, and friendly campfire chats. If the new year has been a whirlwind🌪️ this is the space to unwind, share some laughs & enjoy good company! #ComfortHour
Lab holiday celebration!
2023/12
Celebrating holidays with the lab: lunch by the La Jolla shore, white elephant gift exchange (when Boli received a knit hat deceptively packaged in an iPad box), and we share our 2023 retrospect & 2024 goals both in and out of the lab!
Lab hike at San Elijo Lagoon Reserve!
2023/9
A hike with lab at the San Elijo Lagoon Reserve to welcome new members and toast for our first cohort of students passing PhD candidacy exams with flying colors!
Our superstar undergrads are going to grad schools this Fall!
2023/6
Anjali Srinivasan is joining UCSD Bioinformatics & Systems Biology program; Josh Park is joining Harvard BBS program with an NSF GRFP fellowship.
What an honor to support them and behold their growth and success. Almost can’t wait to see what you are about to discover!
We won the best costume award effortlessly at the Baseball Night Happy Hour!
2023/5
The Lab tries their hand at Axe Throwing!
2023/4
We attended and presented at the GRC!
2023/4
Xinhe Zheng gave a fantastic poster presentation. Xin is looking forward to co-vice chair this GRC in 2025!
Wine and Paint with our beloved neighbor Stowers Lab!
2023/2
We hosted our debut happy hour at DNC!
2023/1
We celebrate the multi cultural new year traditions, including 12 grapes, champagne, chocolate gold coins, wishes on the tree, dumplings, and red packets!
We reviewed the moments in 2022 and look forward to new adventures in 2023!
2023/1
Holiday lab dinner + white elephant gift exchange with our neighbor Ye Lab!
2022/12
Happy holidays!
2022/12
We have a new group photo!
2022/11
The first lab retreat at the Joshua Tree National Park!
2022/10
We had a fun time climbing rocks and talking science!
Lab outing: we painted ceramic potteries together today!
2022/08
Abdullah gave a fantastic talk at the 2022 Summer Research Conference!
2022/08
August birthday cake celebration with our neighbors!
2022/08
We have a photo session today! Serious face only
2022/7
July Lab adventure: ocean kayaking at the La Jolla shore, followed by tacos!
2022/7
Abdullah receives the Ledell Family Research Scholarship for Science & Engineering!
2022/6
Welcome our first-year students joining the lab!
2022/5
We successfully escaped a room at 49:36! Followed by happy hour toasts and a groufie
2022/3
February birthday cake time!
2022/2
In vivo Perturb-seq: a Cutting-edge Technique for Studying Gene Perturbations at Single-cell Resolution
2022/2
‘The technique has proved its value already by helping us build single-cell atlases of different tissues, but hopefully this is just the beginning, as it can help us answer so many biological questions.‘
Happy holidays from our lab to yours!
2022/1
Lab dinner at Bahn Thai!
2021/11
Jin lab Halloween theme — we are all ‘Single cells’!
2021/10
Paper Chat: Perturb-Seq reveals abnormalities associated with autism risk genes
2021/9
Xin was featured in the American Society of Human Genetics Postcast, Genetically Speaking.
Jin lab surfing day!
2021/8
GSA Presidential Member Expressions: Xin Jin
2021/6
‘Encouraged by my grandpa, who is a taxonomist, I drew pictures of tropical plants and learned how to distinguish two species with slight differences. Twenty years later I have clearly failed my dream to become a plant biologist. But many of these concepts remain central in my current research, to catalog and classify brain cells based on their transcriptomic similarities and hopefully to use these approaches to understand brain function as well as dysfunction.‘
Piecing together the puzzle of autism risk genes with a scalable genetic screening approach
2021/4
‘The in vivo Perturb-Seq protocol developed by Jin et al. represents a promising new screening tool for studies of complex disorders and diseases. Even more exciting is that this study only scratches the surface of what is possible with this method.‘
Autism genes affect development of neurons and glia
2020/12
‘This approach represents a new area of neurobiology—by connecting genomic technology development with rigorous dissection of molecular mechanisms, we hope to gain new insights about how complex inputs are integrated in the developing brain.‘
A Systems Genetics Approach for Psychiatric Disorders
2020/12
‘This approach represents a new area of neurobiology—by connecting genomic technology development with rigorous dissection of molecular mechanisms, we hope to gain new insights about how complex inputs are integrated in the developing brain.‘
New technology to investigate autism spectrum disorder
2020/12
‘Scientists apply ‘Perturb-Seq’ method to a living organism for the first time.‘
A large-scale tool to investigate the function of autism spectrum disorder genes
2020/12
‘The field has been limited by the sheer time and effort that it takes to make one model at a time to test the function of single genes. Now, we have shown the potential of studying gene function in a developing organism in a scalable way, which is an exciting first step to understanding the mechanisms that lead to autism spectrum disorder and other complex psychiatric conditions, and to eventually develop treatments for these devastating conditions.’
