Category: Lab Member News
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Leonid Mirny and Irina Zhegalova visit the Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam campus
“This week, HPI welcomed 13 researchers from MIT Morningside Academy for Design in the United States to its Griebnitzsee campus for a workshop. This workshop takes place every six months, alternating between the two institutions, and is part of the research collaboration between HPI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The mixed teams of researchers…
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Looking forward to the next year! Lab Retreat 2025
We spent a beautiful lab retreat day at the MIT Endicott House, touring the grounds, reflecting on the past year, and setting strategy for the year ahead. In the afternoon we got creative capturing shadows with cyanotypes, imprinting porcelain cups, and creating custom flatbreads and ice cream sundaes with our friends and families. Thank you…
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Henrik Dahl Pinholt to present at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
A BASELINE MODEL OF POLYMER-DRIVEN TRANSCRIPTION FOR ENHANCER-DRIVEN GENE ACTIVATION Henrik D Pinholt1,2, TimothyFoldes2, LeonidMirny1,2 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Cambridge, MA 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Cambridge, MA Enhancers are key regulators of cellular decisions. They manage to convert transcription factor binding into target promoter activation with…
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Congratulations, Adam, Rhyan, and Solomon!
This summer, our lab was fortunate to host Adam Muhammed, Rhyan Hurns, and Solomon Amir Mubashir, three talented and dedicated interns from North Carolina Central University. From June 9th to August 9th, 2025, their self-possession, perseverance, and good humor filled the lab as they tackled complex projects and achieved remarkable results. We are proud of…
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Summer MSRP Students Join 3D Genome Research
We’re happy to welcome our MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) students! Undergraduates Adam Mohammed, Rhyan Hurns, and Solomon Mabashir are joining us for the summer before their senior year from North Carolina Central University. The MSRP is designed to provide undergraduate students with an immersive research experience, fostering their development in academic and research careers.…
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Alumni Visits
We were so happy to have lab alumni visiting this Spring! Welcoming Simon Grosse-Holz, currently at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden and Carino Gurjao, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Université de Montréal/ Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the Université de Montréal for a visit made us realize how much we miss…
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Welcoming Prof. Valentina Boeva to Campus
We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Valentina Boeva from ETH Zurich today for a special joint group meeting with the Hansen lab. Dr. Boeva, who leads the Computational Cancer Genomics Group, shared her recent work on “UniversalEPI: harnessing attention mechanisms to decode chromatin interactions in rare and unexplored cell types.” The day provided a…
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Welcome Tingran Wang!
Tingran Wang, doctoral student in the MIT physics Department will be joining our lab for a 3-month rotation. During his rotation, Tingran will be collaborating with Henrik Pinholt and Timothy Foldes. They will be investigating how stretched chromatins in vivo can tell us more about their polymer properties, and eventually directly see evidence of loop…
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MIT PRIMES
MIT PRIMES is a free, year-long program, in which high school students work on individual and group research projects in mathematics, computer science or bioinformatics and computational biology and participate in reading groups under the guidance of academic mentors, usually graduate students or postdoctoral scholars. The Mirny lab is very proud of our Prime graduates…
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The World Called
Soprano and Mirny Lab postdoc, Aleksandra Galitsyna, performed a beautiful program of Anton Bruckner, Adolphus Hailstorck and Francis Poulec with the MIT Concert Choir in Kresge Auditorium. The choir was particularly proud to host Adolphus Hailstorck for the East Coast premier of his work “The World Called”. Congratulations!
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Rt.1 shopping tour for Irina!
This weekend, Aleksandra, Irina, and I went on a Sunday shopping adventure to help Irina find the finishing touches for her apartment. Our first stop was Savers, where we were soon lost in the sheer variety of treasures. Aleksandra scored a practical shelving unit. Irina was able to fill in the housewares that she was…
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Science, Sun, and Seaworms. Falmouth 2024
The lab escaped to Falmouth for 4 days of science and summer. We had two days packed with talks by lab members and guests (Johan Gibcus and Anders Hansen) where we caught up on each other’s work and discussed the exciting directions our research is heading in the next year. We were lucky to visited…