Graduate Student Spark Grants 2025

Michael DiMartino (Chong Lab) - In Disorder, Specificity: Low Complexity Domain (LCD)-Derived Interfering Peptides for Targeting PAX3-FOXO1 LCD Interactions to Treat Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma

Jeongsoo Hur & Anastasiya Oguienko (Wang & Mazmanian Labs) - In situ directed evolution of synthetic phage particles for efficient genetic engineering of gut microbiome

Cameron Jackson (Gradinaru Lab) - Targeted Molecular Strategies to Increase Oocyte Availability for Improved Pregnancy Outcomes and Embryo Development

Yunzheng Liu (Zernicka-Goetz Lab) - Lineage tracing of post-implantation stem cell-derived human embryo model using molecular recording

Joseph Rich (Pachter Lab) - Efficient and accurate variant detection applied to cancer transcriptomics with varseek