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Introducing Dr. Eden Francoeur!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social and @uconnhealth.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate Eden Francoeur for successfully defending her dissertation, "Structural variation mechanisms and their rate in inbred mice.”

#JAXTrainee #PhDSky #PhDChat
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November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Introducing Dr. Jie Zhou!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @uconnhealth.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate Jie Zhou for successfully defending her dissertation, “From spatial architecture to prognostic signatures: Decoding colorectal cancer microenvironment.”

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Jie Zhou headshot. Jie Zhou stands behind The Jackson Laboratory's podium with advisor, Jeffrey Chuang, standing next to the podium. Behind them is a projector screen with her thesis title slide that reads, "From spatial architecture to prognostic signatures: Decoding colorectal cancer microenvironment via spatial transcriptomics and computational pathology."
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🎉 Join us in celebrating @jacksonlab.bsky.social's postbacs accepted into med & grad school programs!

Postbac Fellows
🔹 Cameron Keeley-Parker ➡️ VCU School of Medicine
🔹 Alaura Rice ➡️ @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social‬
🔹 Britney Sison ➡️ ‪@ucsfmedicine.bsky.social

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Blue graphic with light blue circle reads, "Cameron Keeley-Parker | Trowbridge lab" with Cameron's headshot. Purple graphic with dark purple circle reads, "Alaura Rice | Burgess lab" with Alaura's headshot. Orange graphic with darker orange circle reads, "Britney Sison | Chang lab" with Britney's headshot.
June 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Introducing Dr. Ryan Englander!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @uconnhealth.bsky.social M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Ryan Englander for successfully defending his dissertation!

#JAXTrainee #PhDSky #MedSky
Ryan Englander, on left, stands at The Jackson Laboratory podium with advisors Karolina Palucka, center of picture, and Olga Anczukow, right of picture.
April 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Introducing Dr. Elli Hartig!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @tufts.edu Ph.D. candidate Elli Hartig for successfully defending her dissertation, “Building and maintaining the architecture of inner ear sensory hair cells.”

#JAXTrainee #PhDSky #PhDChat
Elli Hartig stands behind a wooden podium while presenting thesis slides in The Jackson Laboratory's Bar Harbor, Maine auditorium. Cover slide for Elli Hartig's thesis defense is pictured on a bright and dark green slide that reads, "Building and Maintaining the Architecture of Inner Ear Sensory Hair Cells | Elli Hartig, Ph.D. candidate | Tufts University GSBS Genetics program & The Jackson Laboratory | Advisor: Basile Tarchini, Ph.D."
June 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Introducing Dr. Alexis Garretson!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & ‪‪Tufts Ph.D. candidate Alexis Garretson for successfully defending her dissertation, “The genetic architecture of fertility and germline mutation rates in laboratory mice.”

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July 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Introducing Dr. Ruoyun Xiong!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social and @uconnhealth.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate Ruoyun Xiong for successfully defending her dissertation!

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Ruoyun Xiong headshot. Screenshot of Ruoyun Xiong's virtual thesis defense title slide with Ruoyun pictured presenting above.
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Postbac Researchers 🔬
🔹 DeAnna James ➡️ @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social‬, MA in Behavioral Neuroscience
🔹 Magda Kmiecik ➡️ @uconnhealth.bsky.social‬, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Bio
🔹 Naomi Mitchell-Hutchinson ➡️ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MS in Biomedical Sci

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Yellow graphic with gray circle reads, "DeAnna James | Chesler lab" with DeAnna's headshot. Green graphic with dark green circle reads, "Magda Kmiecik | Beck lab" with Magda's headshot. Blue graphic with light blue circle reads, "Naomi Mitchell-Hutchinson | Bult lab" with Naomi's headshot.
June 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Introducing Dr. Jiatai He!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @umainegradschool.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate Jiatai He for successfully defending his dissertation, "The impact of aging on the stromal-immune microenvironment in breast cancer metastasis.”

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July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Introducing Dr. Mian Horvath!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @uconnhealth.bsky.social M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Mian Horvath for successfully defending her dissertation!

#JAXTrainee #PhDSky #MedSky
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March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Meet Dr. John Butts!

🎉 Congrats to @jacksonlab.bsky.social & @umainegradschool.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate John Butts on defending his dissertation, "Experimental & computational approaches to understanding sequence basis of cis-regulatory elements & functional human variation.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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🎉 Congrats to @jacksonlab.bsky.social postdoc, John Bachman, Ph.D., for being awarded an @americancancersoc.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship for his project, "Elucidating novel biomarkers & therapeutics for immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis & myositis."

#JAXTrainee #ImmunoSky
John Bachman is sitting on a wooden picnic table outdoors. He is wearing a brown sweater and blue jeans. In the background, there is a fence and greenery.
August 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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🧠🔬 Curious what it’s like to be a #JAXTrainee?

Watch a day in the life of Kiley, whose #PhD research is advancing understanding of the brain after injury: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-h...

Kiley is pursuing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Day in the Life of JAX Predoctoral Affiliate Kiley Martin | Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
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October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Interested in a #postbac to prep for an MD-PhD?

Discover why Britney, a #JAXTrainee focused on understanding how metabolism changes as lupus progresses and validating the impact of glycolytic inhibition, chose the Postbac at @jacksonlab.bsky.social to pursue meaningful research. ⤵️

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Light and dark blue split graphic with circles along the right side with white text reads, "I was interested in the cutting-edge research at JAX using mouse models to study human health and disease. I wanted to gain biomedical research experience after undergrad in preparation for applying to graduate schools. After learning about the Postbac at JAX at a conference, I decided to apply! | Britney Sison | Postbac Fellow | Chang Lab | JAX."
January 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Meet the newest #JAXTrainee Ph.D. cohort ➡️ www.jax.org/news-and-ins...

The Cooperative Ph.D. Program at JAX provides training in mammalian genetics, neuroscience & genomic medicine through partnerships w/ @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social, @uconnhealth.bsky.social & @umaine.bsky.social.

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Get to know some of the newest Ph.D. students at JAX at the Jackson Laboratory
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March 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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🎉 Congrats to Ann Wells, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate at @jacksonlab.bsky.social, for being awarded an honorable mention in Phase 1 of the NIH National Eye Institute S-index challenge for her project, "Quantifying Research Transparency."

🔗 www.nei.nih.gov/about/news-a...

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October 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🤔 What’s life like as a #JAXTrainee?

Go behind the scenes with grad students & postdocs at @jacksonlab.bsky.social to see what drives their research, how they spend their days & what it's like to be part of a collaborative scientific community. 🔬 💻

🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🥼‍🧬 Curious about a day in the life of a #JAXTrainee?

Watch how Cullen balances wet lab and computational research while exploring how an #MDPhD can drive impactful discoveries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-0...

Cullen is pursuing his M.D.-Ph.D. in Genetics & Developmental Biology at UConn Health.
Day in the Life of JAX Predoctoral Affiliate Cullen Clairmont | M.D./Ph.D. Student
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October 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Ashley Gardner, Ph.D., a #postdoc in @jacksonlab.bsky.social's Shultz lab, reflects on her personal experience w/ cultural capital & success in science, coming from a non-traditional background. #JAXTrainee

Read more in this Springer Nature blog post: www.springernature.com/gp/researche...
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December 19, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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Introducing Dr. Eishani Sokolowski!

🎉 Congratulations to @jacksonlab.bsky.social / @uconn.bsky.social Health Ph.D. candidate Eishani Sokolowski for successfully defending her dissertation!

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August 16, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Interested in a #postbac to prep for an MD-PhD?

Discover why Blake, a #JAXTrainee investigating the role lung epithelial cells play in antigen presentation post-viral infection in the Palucka lab, chose the Postbac at @jacksonlab.bsky.social to reaffirm his career goals ⤵️

#PhDChat #PhDSky
Light and dark blue split graphic with circles along the right side with white text reads, "Seeing how Dr. Palucka contextualizes research, engages with scientific questions, and connects lab discoveries to clinical experiences has affirmed my passion for pursing an MD/PhD, and enables me to gain a better understanding of the career pathway." Blake Neiderlander | Postbac Fellow | Palucka Lab | JAX."
December 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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🧠 Ever wondered what it’s like to pursue a Ph.D. in #neuroscience?

Meet Kiley Martin, a predoctoral affiliate in the Joy lab at @jacksonlab.bsky.social, earning her Ph.D. through @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social's 'Neuro at JAX' track.

#JAXTrainee #PhDLife
August 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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👋 Meet @jacksonlab.bsky.social's newest Ph.D. students!

Learn what trainees are most excited about & why they chose JAX: www.jax.org/news-and-ins...

JAX's Ph.D. provides training w/ @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social Health & @umaine.bsky.social.

Welcome to the #JAXTrainee cohort! 🎉
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January 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🎉 Congrats to @jacksonlab.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate, Jonathan Funke, for being awarded a NINDS F31 NRSA fellowship for his project, "Investigating the Contribution of Motor Neuronal Mitochondria to #CharcotMarieTooth Type 2D (CMT2D)."

#JAXTrainee #Neuroskyence
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August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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👏 Trainees from @jacksonlab.bsky.social have been busy this spring presenting their research, building connections across the research community, exchanging ideas and gaining experience to support their growth. We’re proud of their accomplishments and inspired by their enthusiasm!

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Nine JAX trainees standing together posing for a group photo on a stone staircase at the International Mammalian Genome Conference (IMGC) in Scotland. JAX postbac Naomi Mitchell-Hutchinson presenting her poster to a group of people at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) annual meeting. The poster is titled, "Analysis of novel mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma." JAX postbac DeAnna James standing next to her poster at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) annual meeting. The poster is titled, "Transcriptional responses to cocaine across stages of drug self-administration in the striatum and prefrontal cortex in genetically distinct mice with high and low rates of acquisition." JAX Ph.D. student Elli Hartig standing next to another meeting attendee and a baby at her poster at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter meeting. The poster is titled, "MYO15A Rescues Elongation of Developmentally-Stunted Stereocilia in Adult Hair Cells."
May 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM