Congratulations to Brandon, Denice, and Mykel for their acceptances into Doctoral Programs!
April 2023
Mark was an invited speaker at the Avian Research Symposium hosted by The Roslin Institute.
March 2023
Mark was an invited speaker at ISER at the Gold Coast Convention Center in Australia.
February 2023
Angelina was awarded a NanoBioNYC fellowship to support her dissertation research.
January 2023
Congratulations to Ekene for being awarded the Sharon D. Cosloy Undergraduate Research Scholarship in Biology!
October 2022
Mark and Miruna attend the Crispr in Ophthalmology conference held at the University of Oxford and funded by the Macular Society.
September 2022
The Emerson and Gardner labs were awarded a R21 from NIGMS/NIH to develop a novel method to identify the components of cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements.
September 2022
Miruna, Thabelo, and Brendon present their work at the Visual System Development Gordon Research Conference.
August 2022
Mark was awarded a Whitman Fellowship to study the development of skate retinas at the Marine Biological Laboratories.
June 2022
The NIH awarded a Diversity Supplement to support Brandon Webley’s research training.
May 2022
Congratulations to Mykel for being awarded the Sharon D. Cosloy Undergraduate Research Scholarship in Biology!
October 2021
Congrats to Estie, Kevin, Pooja, Kazi, and Miruna for their accepted paper in Developmental Biology!
August 2021
Congratulations to Xueqing for her accepted paper in Scientific Reports!
July 2021
The BrightFocus Foundation awards a Macular Degeneration Research Award to the Emerson Lab to look for cone formation promoting factors.
September 2020
The Emerson Lab renews their National Eye Institute R01 to study “Transcriptional regulation of cone photoreceptor genesis”.
July 2020
Congratulations to Miruna, Diego, Diana, Cassandra, and Kevin for their accepted paper in eLife!
April 2020
Congratulations to Sruti, Nathalie, Ariana, Sneha, Brian, and Ben for their accepted paper in Neural Development!
March 2020
Diego Buenaventura Defended his thesis. Congrats!
December 2018
Denice Moran joins the lab as a part of the NSF program.
September 2018
Sacha Sulaiman joins the lab as a part of the NSF program.
August 2018
Malai O'Keeffe joins the lab as a part of the NSF program.
July 2018
Kevin Gonzalez, Kazi Hossain, Cassandra Thakurdin, Pooja Dutta, and Twinkle Jacob graduated! Good luck!
May 2018
Visited Mott Hall, P.S.161, Charles O' Dewey for NSF Outreach.
January 2018
Brandon Webley joins the lab as a Post-bacc.
Octber 2017
Shirley Chan, Sana Ilyas and Erin Keblish joins the lab for the NSF program.
August 2017
Zsofia Torok joins the lab for Honors research.
June 2016
Harlem PS161 middle school students visit the lab for some hands-on science projects.
June 2016
Undergradates Abdullah Syed and Cassandra Thakurdin join the lab.
June 2016
Kazi Hossain is accepted into the UNLV NSF-REU program!
June 2016
Kevin Gonzalez is accepted into the MARC program, wins a Chleck Family Undergraduate Scholarship, will be supported by the Alfred Harcourt Foundation, and will participate in the CCNY NSF-REU program!
June 2016
Diego Buenaventura wins a DSRG travel grant to attend the Visual System Development Gordon Research Conference in August.
June 2016
Doctoral students Estie Schick and Xueqing Chen join the lab.
June 2016
Brian Wang, Sneha Gopal, and Benjamin Souferi graduate! Good luck!
May 2016
Twinkle, Pooja, Kazi, Kevin, Sruti, and Sean visit 3 middle schools in Harlem and Queens
Made possible due to funding by NSF, our students brought hands-on molecular biology to the classroom and reached over 300 students (including those at Pooja and Kazi's former schools)!
January 2016
The Emerson Lab receives another year of pilot grant funding from the Retina Research Foundation
January 2016
Javed Chitaman joins the lab as an graduate student
September 2015
The National Science Foundation funds the Emerson Lab with a 5 year CAREER award for the project: "A cellular and molecular analysis of a specific retinal lineage that generates cone photoreceptors and horizontal cells"
September 2015
Twinkle Jacob and Pooja Dutta joins the lab as undergraduate students
September 2015
The updated version of the Emerson Lab website goes live
You're on the new website now!
August 2015
Benjamin Souferi accepted into CCNY NSF-REU program
The program includes a $5,000 stipend to cover 10 weeks of research, weekly workshops, and seminars.
June 2015
Sruti presents at the Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution conference through a DSRG grant
Sruti presented a poster titled " Evolution and function of gene regulatory elements in cone photoreceptor cell specification"
About the Conference June 2015
Benjamin Souferi becomes a masters student at The City College of New York
May 2015
Kazi Hossain and Kevin Gonzalez join the lab as undergraduate students
May 2015
The Emerson lab moves to the Center for Discovery and Innovation research building
View photos March 2015
Mark receives a CUNY JFRASE Award through the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
February 2015
The NEI funds the Emerson lab project, "Transcriptional Regulation of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis"
January 2015
The Emerson lab receives a pilot grant from the Retina Research Foundation
January 2015
Sneha Gopal takes third place in the poster competition at the AiCHE meeting
Sneha presented a poster titled "Identification of Enhancer Elements for OneCut1 and OneCut2"
Read the abstract November 2014
Ben Souferi receives the Cosloy Scholarship from the CCNY Biology Department
October 2014
Sruti Patoori and Sean McCaffery join the lab as doctoral students
May 2014
Diego receives a vision research grant from Sigma Xi to study photoreceptor development
About the grant May 2014
The Emerson lab receives a pilot grant from the Retina Research Foundation
February 2014
Diego Buenaventura joins the lab as a doctoral student
September 2013
Sneha Gopal, Brian Wang, Benjamin Souferi, and Suprita Datta join the lab as undergraduate students
February 2013
Nathalie Jean-Charles joins the lab as a research assistant and the first member of the lab
January 2013