News

• Montserrat was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! (July 2019)

• Natalie Toothacre (CAMB program, G&E) joined our lab – WELCOME!!  (May 2019)

• Welcome to Makheni Jean-Pierre, who joined us during the summer of 2019 with the Penn Summer Internship Program (SUIP) (Summer 2019)

• Welcome to Penn Vet student, Kaitlyn Cassel, who joined us during the summer of 2019 for the Penn Vet BI Summer Research Program (Summer 2019)

• Camille’s review article (“When the balance is broken”) on X-linked gene dosage and female-biased autoimmunity is accepted! Yet another witty title for a review article from our lab. (May 2019)

• Zack passed his prelim, and is an official candidate for the PhD program in the Penn CAMB DSRB program!! (May 2019)

• Anguera lab graduates for 2019: Congratulations to Don, who graduated with a B.S. with honors from Penn; Congrats to Steve Hayes, who graduated from Penn Vet also with honors; Congrats to Anna Martin, who also graduated from Penn Vet! (May 2019)

• Montserrat & Camille participated in the first Anguera lab hooding ceremony, for the Penn BGS Graduation! (May 2019)

• Isabel’s review article (“Enjoy the silence”) on XCI diversity in somatic cells is accepted! (April 2019)

• Camille defended her dissertation with flying colors and joined Gerd Blobel’s lab at CHOP.  We wish her all the best! (March 2019)

• Welcome to Cardboard_Camille, our special 2D slightly larger-than-life replica of Camille. She likes to move around the 3rd floor of Rosenthal and surprise members of other labs. (March 2019)

• Mr. Sparkles continued to get bigger (& sassier) in the lab, demanding more frequent feedings. (Spring 2019)

• Our lab’s first paper on XCI in T cells is accepted at JCI Insight!! (March 2019)

• Camille presented her research in a short talk at the 2019 Keystone RNAs in Immunity meeting (Feb 2019)

• Camille & Isabel’s paper on XCI features in macrophages, dendritic cells, and NK cells was accepted!! (January 2019)

• Camille’s manuscript on sex differences in human ESCs and early placental progenitors was accepted!! (October 2018)

• Camille, Isabel, & Montserrat presented at the 2018 CSHL Epigenetics meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY (September 2018)

• Welcome to the lab, Zachary Beetham! Zack is a CAMB G&E student (June 2018)

• Welcome Natalia Enid Aponte Borges! Natalia is part of the Penn Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (June 2018)

• Congratulations to Don who is doing a summer research program in NYC at Sloan Kettering (June 2018)

• Farewell Anna, we wish you all the best in your final year of Vet School (May 2018)

• The Anguera lab welcomes Aimee Dubin as our new Research Specialist! (May 2018)

• Congratulations to Isabel for being appointed to the T-32 in Immune System Development and Regulation (May 2018)

• Isabel passed her prelim with flying colors and is officially a PhD candidate in DSRB!!! (May 2018)

• Anna presented her research at the 2018 AAI meeting in Austin, Texas (May 2018)

• Congratulations to Montserrat for receiving an NIAID R01 and a Lupus Foundation of America D.O.D grant!! Read about it here (May 2018)

• Anna wins first place for her talk at the Vet Student Research Day! (March 2018)

• Turns out Sparkles is a boy, and he celebrates his first birthday this month. Happy birthday, Mr. Sparkles! (March 2018)

• Montserrat and Camille attended the 2018 Midwinter Conference of Immunologists in Monterey, CA (January 2018)

• Camille was selected for a talk at the 2018 Penn Epigenetics Spatial and Functional Genomics Symposium (January 2018)

• Camille’s paper was accepted in Plos Genetics.

• Camille's NRSA predoctoral fellowship (F31) was awarded from the NIH! (August 2017).

• Summer lab axe throwing competition: Anguera lab against the Lengner lab (Aug 2017).

• Camille received a travel award to attend the EMBO Workshop on B cells in health and disease in Girona, Spain (August 2017).

• The Anguera Lab welcomes its newest member, Sparkles, the axolotl (August 2017).

• Welcome to the Lab, Bam Paneru! (July 2017).

• Camille receives a Goldie Simon Preceptorship award from the Lupus Foundation of America (June 2017).

• Welcome to the Lab, Isabel Sierra! Isabel is a CAMB-DSRB PhD Student (June 2017).

• Welcome Donavon Sandoval-Heglund! Don is a Penn Undergraduate and is a part of the PURM summer research program (May 2017).

• Erin Achilles (Vet ’19) received an NIH-Merial Summer Research grant to work in the lab (May 2017).

• Steve received the Morris Animal Foundation summer research fellowship, Congrats Steve! (May 2017).

• Welcome to the Anguera Lab, Anna Martin! Anna received an HHMI career fellowship grant! She will be taking a year off of Vet school to do research full-time in the Anguera & Atchison labs (April 2017).

• Jianle’s JOVE methods paper is now in press (April 2017).

• Camille was appointed to the Developmental Biology Training Grant (T32) at Penn (June 2016).

• First lab publication to make the cover! Read more...

• "LNCRHOXF1: a long noncoding RNA from the X-chromosome that suppresses viral response genes during development of the early human placenta" is now in press in Molecular Cell Biology (May 2016).

• Jianle was selected to give a talk at the 10th annual meeting of the Organization for the Society of Sex Differences (May 2016). 

• Camile was selected to attend the 2016 Van Andel Research Institute summer course on Epigenomics (May 2016). 

• Steve Hanes received an NIH-Merial Summer Research grant (2016).

• First publication from the Anguera Lab now in press at PNAS (March 2016).

• Montserrat received an NIH-BIRCWH Scholarship (January 2016).

• Ian Penkala placed 3rd in the 2015 Penn Vet Student Research Day presentations (March 2015).

• Camille received a travel award to present her research at the 2016 Keystone Conference on Long noncoding RNAs (October 2015).

• Jianle was selected to give a seminar on her research at the Penn Postdoctoral Research Symposium (October 2015).

• Camille received a grant from the American Lupus Foundation (June 2015).

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