LAB NEWS
03/20/2025
Exciting news: we welcome postdoctoral scholar Donghun Lee to our lab! Donghun grew up in Cheongju, South Korea, and earned his B.S. degree in microbiology from Chungbuk National University. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. During his Ph.D, he utilized single-molecule FRET to study how DNA repair enzymes interact with DNA at the single-molecule level under guidence of Gwangrog. In the Chong lab, he is interested in investigating how intrinsically disordered regions within transcription factors regulate their binding to chromatin at the single-molecule and single-cell levels. Looking forward to working with you, Donghun!
03/03/2025
We welcome a new member to the team today! Kyogo Nagashima (Chem G1) has officially joined our lab! Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, Kyogo obtained a BA in Chemistry and a minor in Computer Science from Oberlin College. He is particularly interested in liquid-liquid phase separations and the mechanisms by which they recruit biologically relevant macromolecules essential for transcription. Warm welcome Kyogo! We're very excited to work with you!
01/27/2025
We are excited to receive a Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative Grant for our project in collaboration with Dr. Yanzhong Yang at City of Hope. Congratulations Team!
12/16/2024
We welcome Kyogo Nagashima (Chem G1), our new rotation student today. We look forward to working with you, Kyogo!
10/25/2024
We successfully renewed our Mallinckrodt Research Grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation and a research grant from the Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust, each providing the lab with $75,000 of research funding for the coming year. Congratulations team!
09/15/2024
Congratulations to Shasha on receiving the ALSF Innovation Grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), which supports our lab's research on rhabdomyosarcoma in the coming two years with $250,000 of funding. Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is committed to creating opportunities for new and innovative research into treatments and cures for childhood cancers. The Innovation Grant provides critical and significant seed funding for researchers with a novel approach to pediatric oncology scientific investigation. Congratulations Shasha and team!
06/24/2024
We're excited to share our new paper in JoVE where we present the protocol of a single-molecule imaging-based method for quantifying the dynamics by which proteins interact with each other in biomolecular condensates in live cells. Check out our paper here and click on the video to listen to Shawn Yoshida, the first author, introducing the method. Congratulations Shawn!
06/20/2024
Our postdoctoral scholar Barun Kumar Maity has accepted a faculty position at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India. Barun will be leaving for the new position in mid-August. Warm congratulations and well done, Barun! We are so proud of you as our first lab alumnus to become a professor. We cherish the time working alongside you and wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors. Meanwhile, our lab is actively recruiting a postdoctoral scholar. Interested applicants, please email Shasha. More information can be found here.
03/08/2024
Our lab is growing! Michael Di Martino (Bioengineering G1) has officially joined the lab! Michael grew up in Hawaii and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 with a B.A. in General Biology with minors in Chemistry and Theatre Arts. His undergraduate research experiences were a combination of biomicrofluidics and immunology. He is presently interested in modeling biological systems, cellular dynamics and precision medicine. Warm welcome, Michael! We are so excited to have you join the team!
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01/22/2024
Shasha and the Chong Lab received the 2024 CCE Innovation Award that comes with $50,000 of unrestricted research funding. The award-winning project titled "A new method to decode the composition of biomolecular condensates in live human cells"is led by Qinyu Han. Congratulations Shasha and Qinyu!
01/03/2024
Happy New Year! We kicked off the new year with five new members. We are excited to welcome postdocs, Jiamin Guo and Yanghao Zhong, as well as new rotating students, Roujon Nowzari (BMB G1), Jordan Santana (Physics G1) and Andrew Schilling (CB&MB G1). We look forward to working with all of you!
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