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Carolyn is an invited speaker at the EMBO RNA-Guided Genome Protection Meeting<\/strong> in Caux, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Khlifa attends and gives a talk the MAPSS+Dev Cell Meeting in Madison WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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New funding alert! Carolyn’s R01 has been funded by the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. So excited to continue our work on deciphering the role of RG motifs in piRNA-mediated silencing and transgenerational fertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Sanjana and Maria attend the RNA Society Meeting in Montreal, Canada. (Pictured with Derrick Morton lab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn receives the Albert S. Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award – one of the highest honors at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Awarded annually, it recognizes faculty for exceptional achievements in scholarship, teaching, and service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Shihui is hooded at the USC Dornsife PhD Graduation Ceremony<\/strong>. Congrats Shihui!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Danny passes his qualifying exam! Fantastic job, congratulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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\n\n \n December 2025<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Lab retreat and lunch to celebrate end of Sydnie and Jacy’s rotation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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\n October 2025\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Jenny’s thesis defense! Third one this semester! Congrats Jenny!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Shihui’s thesis defense! Fantastic job! Looking forward to seeing what you do in your post-doc!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Dylan defends his thesis! Congrats Dylan! Can’t wait to see what you are up to next!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Robert presents his summer research project at the USC Jumpstart Closing Luncheon<\/strong>. Nice job Robert! And a big Thank You to Khlifa for being an awesome summer mentor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Lab lunch to celebrate Maria’s F31 award, farewell to summer students Robert and Natalie, and welcome to new PhD student Danny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Maria’s NIH F31 Fellowship has been awarded! She has received 4 years of funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund her research investigating mechanisms regulating Argonaute nuclear import. Congrats Maria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn, Shihui, Sanjana, Khlifa, and Maria attend the 2025 International Worm Meeting<\/strong> at UC Davis (Go Aggies!). Shihui gave a talk in the small RNA session and Sanjana, Khlifa, and Maria presented posters. (See Sanjana presenting her work to a Nobel laureate in the picture below!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Dylan and Jenny are hooded at the USC Dornsife PhD Graduation Ceremony<\/strong>. Congrats to the newest Phillips lab PhDs!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Maria passes her qualifying exam with flying colors! Congrats Maria!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Shihui is awarded the 2025 USC PhD Achievement Award, given to only 6 outstanding PhD students across the university. Congrats Shihui! Carolyn also receives an accompanying mentoring award!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Phillips lab attends the 2024 MCB Retreat in Ventura, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Samuel presents his summer research at the JumpStart Closing Poster Session and Luncheon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn, Shihui Dylan, and Maria attend the Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress, and Small RNA (MAPSS) meeting<\/a> in Madison, WI. Carolyn was a meeting organizer, Shihui gave a talk, Dylan gave a lightening talk, and Maria presented a poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Lab lunch to celebrate new lab grad student Maria, Endowed Fellowship for Shihui, Outstanding TA award for Sanjana, and new summer student Samuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn is a keynote speaker at the Center or RNA Biology (CRB) and Cellular, Molecular, and Biochemical Science Training Program (CMBP) Annual Symposium at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn and Sanjana attend the Todos Santos Small RNA meeting at the Colorado State University Campus in Todos Santos, Mexico. Carolyn was a meeting organizer and invited speaker and Sanjana chaired one of the sessions. 2024 Todos Santos Small RNA Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Carolyn is an invited speaker at the piRNAs and PIWI Proteins meeting in Montpellier France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Sanjana is selected for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for BISC 120L. Congrats Sanjana!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Shihui is awarded the USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship for 2024-2025. Whoohoo!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Sevara presents her summer research at the USC Jumpstart Symposium. And a big thank you to Dylan for excellent mentorship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Shihui’s new manuscript examining the role of germ granules in properly loading HRDE-1 small RNAs is now available on Biorxiv!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Celja and Sanjana’s new manuscript on germ granule organization is now available on Biorxiv!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Shihui is awarded the USC Gold Fellowship! Congrats Shihui!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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VERY belated celebration for Jenny passing quals! Congrats Jenny!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn hoods the first three Phillips lab PhDs!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn is promoted to ASSOCIATE professor with tenure!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Farewell lunch for Anne. Good luck with your new position at Genentech! And welcome to rotation students Nina and Brandon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Farewell lunch for Alicia. Congrats on the new lab and good luck in Texas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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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!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Anne’s paper is officially out at Nature Communications. Congrats Anne!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Celja and Kevin have a new micropublication out looking at SIMR-1 in embryos. Congrats Celja and Kevin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Alicia’s new publication describing a small RNA feedback loop that regulates endogenous small RNA levels is now out in Cell Reports. Congratulations Alicia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Lunch to celebrate the end of Ana and Melanie’s rotation and welcome new rotation student Jenny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Congrats to Dylan, Anne, and Celja for our new publication now advanced online at G3. And some great cover art submissions too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Welcome to our new rotation students Ana and Melanie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Congrats to Celja on her micropublication!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Celja attends Cell Symposium: Regulatory RNAs in Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Lab lunch to wish Kavini farewell and to celebrate new lab members Dana, Dylan, and Katerina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Anne, Alicia, and Carolyn head to Todos Santos, Mexico for the C. elegans<\/em> small RNA Symposium hosted by the Colorado State Univeristy Todos Santos Center and organized by Tai Montgomery, Amy Pasquinelli, Julie Claycomb, and Carolyn Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Congrats to Celja for passing her qualifying exam!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Phillips lab Thanksgiving lunch and welcome to new rotation student Dylan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Lab lunch to welcome new members (Alicia and Elizabeth) and to celebrate funding success (Celja and Elizabeth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Congrats to Kevin for passing his quals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Josh joins the lab for his first rotation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Congrats to Anne for passing her qualifying exam! First Phillips lab PhD candidate! Now back to work…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Lab lunch to celebrate Celja and Carolyn’s funding success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Phillips lab attends the 21st International C. elegans Meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Celja wins mixed media category at the C. elegans art show with her print, “Before Egg Prep”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn was selected as a 2017 Pew Scholar by the The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Josh and Stephan graduate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Celja joins the lab as our third graduate student<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Carolyn receives the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Shanni, Tingting, and Christian join the lab for third rotation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Diego joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Lab picture (Last day of Katie and Celja’s rotation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Katie and Celja join the lab for second rotation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Lab lunch to celebrate Anne and Carolyn’s funding success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Anne is appointed as a NIH T32 Chemistry-Biology Interface trainee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Carolyn receives the R35\/MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Anne and Kevin join the lab as our first two graduate students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Josh joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Injection scope is finally working thanks to Dorian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Stephan joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Dorian joins the lab as our first postdoc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Lisa joins the lab as a research technician<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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