Shihui represents the Phillips lab at the Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference (poster) and Gordon Research Seminar (talk!) in Holderness, NH
Sevara presents her summer research at the USC Jumpstart Symposium. And a big thank you to Dylan for excellent mentorship!
Shihui’s new manuscript examining the role of germ granules in properly loading HRDE-1 small RNAs is now available on Biorxiv!
Sanjana represents the Phillips lab at the International C. elegans Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland
Lab lunch to celebrate Tavo’s last day as a post-bac. Good luck in grad school!
Celja and Sanjana’s new manuscript on germ granule organization is now available on Biorxiv!
Shihui is awarded the USC Gold Fellowship! Congrats Shihui!
Now celebrating Sanjana’s quals and the end of rotation 2 for Trevor!
Celebrating Shihui’s quals and the end of rotation 1 for Clayton and Momo!
October 2022
Carolyn, Dylan, and Jenny attend the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Germ Cells meeting.
Welcome to new graduate student, Khlifa!
July 2022
Carolyn, Sanjana and Shihui attend the Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, and Small RNA meeting in Madison, WI. We survived our first in-person post-COVID meeting!
VERY belated celebration for Jenny passing quals! Congrats Jenny!
Carolyn hoods the first three Phillips lab PhDs!!!
March 2022 – Promotion!
Carolyn is promoted to ASSOCIATE professor with tenure!!!
Farewell lunch for Kevin. Congrats on getting your perfect job as a medical science liason!
Farewell lunch for Kat. We’ll miss you!
Farewell lunch for Anne. Good luck with your new position at Genentech! And welcome to rotation students Nina and Brandon.
Farewell lunch for Alicia. Congrats on the new lab and good luck in Texas!
September 2021
Anne defends her PhD. Congrats Anne!
August 2021
Kevin defends his PhD. Congrats Kevin!
Farewell lunch for Celja. Best of luck in the Villeneuve lab. Can’t wait to see what you do next!
August 2021
Celja completes her PhD defense. Congrats Celja!
Lab picnic to celebrate 5 papers (Alicia – Nucleic Acids Research, May 2020; Kevin – eLife April 2020; Celja – G3, October 2020; Alicia – Cell Reports, October 2020; and Anne – Nature Communications, July 2021), passing of quals (Dylan), fellowship awards (Alicia – ACS), job offers (Alicia – assistant professor at UT Arlington and Celja – post-doc in Villeneuve lab at Stanford), and new lab members (Jenny, Sanjana, and Shihui – PhD students, Shwetanshu and Diala – undergraduate researchers, Fergus – lab mascot). Congrats everyone!!!
Anne’s paper is officially out at Nature Communications. Congrats Anne!
How we take lab photos during the pandemic!
Anne give as talk at the RNA Society Meeting – RNA 2021. Nice job Anne!
Carolyn’s NIH/NIGMS R35/MIRA has been renewed – 5 more years of funding for the lab! Thanks to all the hard work of everyone in the lab!
Celja and Kevin have a new micropublication out looking at SIMR-1 in embryos. Congrats Celja and Kevin!
Alicia has just been awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship!!!
Alicia’s new publication describing a small RNA feedback loop that regulates endogenous small RNA levels is now out in Cell Reports. Congratulations Alicia!
October 2020
Celja’s new publication in G3 has been selected as the Featured Article and her block print of C. elegans germ cells was chosen for the cover. Dana, a high school research assistant, also contributed to this work and designed her own cover submission (right). Congrats Celja and Dana!
Uebel and Phillips
Congrats to Diego for completing his Master’s degree!
Phillips lab attends TAGC 2020 Online! Alicia gave a talk in the Adaptation in Natural Populations session and Celja presented a poster.
Celja is awarded the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics from the Genetics Society of America and the USC Graduate School Research Enhancement Fellowship. Congrats Celja!
Congratulations to Alicia on her new paper just published at Nucleic Acids Research!
Lunch to celebrate the end of Jenny’s rotation
Lab Thanksgiving!
Lunch to celebrate the end of Ana and Melanie’s rotation and welcome new rotation student Jenny
October 2019
Halloween 2019!
Phillips lab celebrates Dylan and Anne’s G3 paper and welcomes new lab member Randall
October 2019
Phillips lab attends the USC Molecular and Computational Biology retreat in Lake Arrowhead, CA
September 2019
Congrats to Dylan, Anne, and Celja for our new publication now advanced online at G3. And some great cover art submissions too!
Wallis et al.
Welcome to our new rotation students Ana and Melanie
June 2019
Celja wins both the GSA Best Poster Award in “Gene Regulation and Genomics” and the Worm Art Show “Mixed Media” category with her collaboration with Susan Strome from UCSC (pictured with Ahna Skop and Susan Strome)
June 2019
Phillips lab attends the International C. elegans meeting at UCLA
Celja attends Cell Symposium: Regulatory RNAs in Berlin, Germany
Lab lunch to wish Kavini farewell and to celebrate new lab members Dana, Dylan, and Katerina
April 2019
Anne, Alicia, and Carolyn head to Todos Santos, Mexico for the C. elegans small RNA Symposium hosted by the Colorado State Univeristy Todos Santos Center and organized by Tai Montgomery, Amy Pasquinelli, Julie Claycomb, and Carolyn Phillips
Lab lunch to celebrate the end of Dylan’s rotation
Congrats to Celja for passing her qualifying exam!
Phillips lab Thanksgiving lunch and welcome to new rotation student Dylan!
October 2018
Halloween!
October 2018
Phillips lab attends the USC MCB/QCB retreat in Lake Arrowhead, CA
July 2018
Congrats to Celja and Dorian for getting the first Phillips lab publication accepted at Plos Genetics! Celja also designed an awesome cover art submission.
Uebel et al.
Lab lunch and farewell party for Lisa
Celja and Anne attend the Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Liquid Phase Separation meeting in Heidelberg, Germany, while Carolyn and Kevin attand the CSHL Regulatory & Non-Coding RNAs meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Lab lunch to welcome new members (Alicia and Elizabeth) and to celebrate funding success (Celja and Elizabeth)
Welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow, Alicia Rogers!
Congrats to Celja for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!!
Congrats to Kevin for passing his quals!
Caleb and Meghan join the lab for second rotation
September 2017
Josh joins the lab for his first rotation
August 2017
Congrats to Anne for passing her qualifying exam! First Phillips lab PhD candidate! Now back to work…
Lab lunch to celebrate Celja and Carolyn’s funding success
Celja is appointed as a NIH T32 Chemistry-Biology Interface trainee
June 2017
Phillips lab attends the 21st International C. elegans Meeting
Celja wins mixed media category at the C. elegans art show with her print, “Before Egg Prep”
Carolyn was selected as a 2017 Pew Scholar by the The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
Josh and Stephan graduate!
Celja joins the lab as our third graduate student
Carolyn receives the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
February 2017
Farewell party for Dorian at the LA Kings game
Shanni, Tingting, and Christian join the lab for third rotation
Diego joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher
Lab picture (Last day of Katie and Celja’s rotation)
November 2016
Katie and Celja join the lab for second rotation
October 2016
Phillips lab practices earthquake safety… duck and cover!!!
October 2016
Kevin and Anne present posters at the USC Molecular and Computational Biology departmental retreat
Lab lunch to celebrate Anne and Carolyn’s funding success
Anne is appointed as a NIH T32 Chemistry-Biology Interface trainee
Carolyn receives the R35/MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Anne and Kevin join the lab as our first two graduate students
Kevin and Anne join the lab for their third rotation
Amy and Veronica join the lab for their second rotation
Josh joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher
Injection scope is finally working thanks to Dorian
Stephan joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher
Dorian joins the lab as our first postdoc
Deltavision is installed!
Lisa joins the lab as a research technician
Phillips lab opens!