Direct RNA-seq has revolutionized the epitranscriptomics field by changing and facilitating how we map RNA modifications. This has vast implications, from exploring epitranscriptomic functions to uncovering the roles that RNA modifications play in diseases, not to mention how this can impact the development of epitranscriptomic-based diagnostics and therapeutics. Check out my journal club where I … More RNA modifications and the One Ring To Map Them All

When the Indian poet Tagore wrote, “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers” in his 1913 Nobel-winning collection Stray Birds, he could not have foreseen that he had metaphorically prophesied the very beginning of life.Every one of us originates from a blastocyst. Within days of fertilization, an egg develops into this structure, composed of the … More Clare won 3rd place at the 2nd Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Cell Photography Competition

that due to certain circumstances, Miss An is now no longer a PhD student of the Goh laboratory… …by the way, please join me in welcoming Doctor An to the Goh laboratory.

We switched up this year to a poor indoor lab outing, with Lynne and Clare showcasing their karaoke skills, Ann overcoming her fear of scary ride and the whole lab shooting each other down in the VR world.

Rather than stay in Shenzhen for our annual lab outing, we decided to go to Guangzhou because… reasons… (supposedly the zoo there is better than any in Shenzhen).

Congratulations to Ann, who at the start of her 3rd year as a PhD student, is 1 of the 4 winners of the SZBL Director’s Award (and it comes with a sweet cash prize)!

Our 1st student’s 1st 1st-author paper. Out now in Molecular Cell.

4hr hike up and down Yangtai mountain, culminating in a vendor-sponsored hotpot dinner at CouCou. Perhaps we will do something less intense the next time…

Our review about “Heterogeneity of chemical modifications on RNA” written together with Becki Kuang, now out on Biophysical review.

This was a home-coming trip for Sho and the first time for both Shahzina and Ann to experience USA. Sho presented some of the lab’s recent work for his talk while Ann got to present her first poster at an international conference.