Oct. 2026 — We are excited to announce that Ang Li will join our lab as a postdoc in Nov. 2026. Ang recently completed her Ph.D. in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology at Harvard University, working with Dr. Michael Springer.
Sep. 2026 — We are delighted to announce that Lin will join our lab as a postdoc in Jan. 2027, after completing her Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, where she studies circadian rhythms. We look forward to welcoming Lin to the lab.
Jul. 2026 — Congratulations to Peter on winning a poster competition, only 4 awards selected from 64 international entries, at the FASEB Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.
Jun. 2026 — Our lab received a four-year Department of Defense (DoD) CDMRP Idea Development Award for the project “Defining an Error-free DNA Repair Signature as a Predictive Marker for Lethal Prostate Cancer.” This award supports our efforts to develop new approaches for predicting DNA repair vulnerabilities in prostate cancer.
Mar. 2026 — Peter and Shiyang presented their research at the DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer GRC. Congratulations to Peter on winning second place in the highly competitive poster competition, selected from 93 international entries.
Feb. 2026 — A major milestone for our lab: Peter, Trevor, and Yi published their study, “High-throughput mapping of spontaneous mitotic crossover and genome instability events with sci-L3-Strand-seq,” in Nucleic Acids Research. This work establishes a scalable approach and a comprehensive computational suite for studying spontaneous mitotic crossover and genome instability at single-cell resolution.
Dec. 2025 — Yi received a W. M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Award, supporting our research on DNA repair in cancer and rare diseases from 2026 to 2028.
Dec. 2025 — Peter delivered an oral presentation at the 9th SoCal Genome Stability Symposium, hosted by City of Hope.
Nov. 2025 — Congratulations to Peter on his promotion to Project Scientist.
Aug. 2025 — Shiyang He joined our lab as a postdoc after completing his Ph.D. at UC Riverside, where he studied RNA-binding proteins.
Aug. 2025 — Junting Li joined our lab as a Summer Student Researcher. She recently graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Feb. 2025 — Our lab's research on expanding the sci-L3 single-cell sequencing platform was published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to Peter on this important methodological advance.
Dec. 2024 — Peter gave an oral presentation at the 8th SoCal Genome Stability Symposium, hosted by Scripps Research.
Mar. 2024 — Peter presented his research at the DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer Gordon Research Conference (GRC).
Dec. 2023 — Peter and Trevor presented their research at the 7th SoCal Genome Stability Symposium, hosted by the University of Southern California (USC).
Mar. 2023 — Trevor presented his research at the NHGRI T32 Trainee Symposium.
Dec. 2022 — Congratulations to Peter on receiving a Poster Award at the 6th SoCal Genome Stability Symposium, where Trevor also delivered an oral presentation. The meeting was held at UC Irvine.
Dec. 2022 — Congratulations to Trevor on receiving an NIH NHGRI T32 fellowship through the Genomic Analysis and Interpretation Training Program (GATP).
Aug. 2022 — Congratulations to Trevor on advancing to PhD candidacy in UCLA's Bioinformatics IDP.
Aug. 2022 — Yi had the special honor of presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to her Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Tom Petes, at the Genetics Society of America (GSA) Yeast Genetics Meeting in Los Angeles.
Aug. 2022 — Peter delivered a highly selective trainee oral presentation at the FASEB Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements Conference in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Apr. 2022 — Congratulations to Trevor on receiving an Honorable Mention for his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) application.
Mar. 2022 — Trevor presented his research at the DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer Gordon Research Seminar (GRS).
Dec. 2021 — Congratulations to Renee on receiving early admission offers from both Caltech and MIT.
Sep. 2021 — Congratulations to Trevor on receiving a Poster Award at the 5th SoCal Genome Stability Symposium, where Peter also delivered an oral presentation. The symposium was organized by Scripps Research and held virtually.
Aug. 2021 — Our lab received an NIH NIGMS R35 MIRA Award for the project “Understanding Spontaneous Mitotic Crossover by Single-Cell Multi-Omics.”
Jun. 2021 — Trevor Ridgley joined our lab as a Ph.D. student in UCLA's Bioinformatics IDP, after completing his B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics at UC Santa Cruz.
Nov. 2020 — Peter Chovanec joined our lab as a postdoc, following his Ph.D. research at the Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, and a short postdoctoral training at Caltech.
Mar. 2020 — The Yin Lab officially opened at UCLA in Spring 2020.
Nov. 2019 — Our lab will be supported by the Damon Runyon - Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. Thank you, @DamonRunyon!
Mar. 2019 — The Yin lab will open in Mar. 2020.