The Farnung Lab received the Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Award and will receive $500,000 over the next two years.

Della defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations!

Lucas is now a HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and the lab is supported by HHMI.

Martin Filipovski defended his PhD thesis. Congrats, Dr Filipovski!

Lucas was named one of 30 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars for 2025 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). 🎉🥳

Allison defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations, Dr. James!

New paper out in JBC describing the substrate plasticity of SIRT6.

Our first chromatin replication preprint is now online!

Congratulations, Jon! This publication establishes how H3K36me3 gets deposited co-transcriptionally.

The Farnung lab receives Stage 2 funding from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for work on genome translocations.

Our paper describing the STK19-containing TC-NER complex is out in Cell.

Sophie Roth has received the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship. Congrats, Sophie!

Alex has passed his PQE!

Our Rpd3S story has now been published in Nature Communications. Congrats, Jon!

Lucas has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award administered by the NIH Common Fund to study molecular mechanisms at the nexus of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics.

New review article available on transcription through chromatin.

Lucas has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and has been recognized as the 2023 Milton E. Cassel Scholar.

Alex joins the lab as a PhD student.