News

Montserrat was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! (July 2019)

Natalie Toothacre (CAMB program, G&E) joined our lab – WELCOME!!  (May 2019)

Welcome to Makheni Jean-Pierre, who joined us during the summer of 2019 with the Penn Summer Internship Program (SUIP) (Summer 2019)

Welcome to Penn Vet student, Kaitlyn Cassel, who joined us during the summer of 2019 for the Penn Vet BI Summer Research Program (Summer 2019)

Camille’s review article (“When the balance is broken”) on X-linked gene dosage and female-biased autoimmunity is accepted! Yet another witty title for a review article from our lab. (May 2019)

Zack passed his prelim, and is an official candidate for the PhD program in the Penn CAMB DSRB program!! (May 2019)

Anguera lab graduates for 2019: Congratulations to Don, who graduated with a B.S. with honors from Penn; Congrats to Steve Hayes, who graduated from Penn Vet also with honors; Congrats to Anna Martin, who also graduated from Penn Vet! (May 2019)

Montserrat & Camille participated in the first Anguera lab hooding ceremony, for the Penn BGS Graduation! (May 2019)

Isabel’s review article (“Enjoy the silence”) on XCI diversity in somatic cells is accepted! (April 2019)

Camille defended her dissertation with flying colors and joined Gerd Blobel’s lab at CHOP.  We wish her all the best! (March 2019)

Welcome to Cardboard_Camille, our special 2D slightly larger-than-life replica of Camille. She likes to move around the 3rd floor of Rosenthal and surprise members of other labs. (March 2019)

Mr. Sparkles continued to get bigger (& sassier) in the lab, demanding more frequent feedings. (Spring 2019)

Our lab’s first paper on XCI in T cells is accepted at JCI Insight!! (March 2019)

Camille presented her research in a short talk at the 2019 Keystone RNAs in Immunity meeting (Feb 2019)

Camille & Isabel’s paper on XCI features in macrophages, dendritic cells, and NK cells was accepted!! (January 2019)

Camille’s manuscript on sex differences in human ESCs and early placental progenitors was accepted!! (October 2018)

Camille, Isabel, & Montserrat presented at the 2018 CSHL Epigenetics meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY (September 2018)

Welcome to the lab, Zachary Beetham! Zack is a CAMB G&E student (June 2018)

Welcome Natalia Enid Aponte Borges! Natalia is part of the Penn Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (June 2018)

Congratulations to Don who is doing a summer research program in NYC at Sloan Kettering (June 2018)

Farewell Anna, we wish you all the best in your final year of Vet School (May 2018)

The Anguera lab welcomes Aimee Dubin as our new Research Specialist! (May 2018)

Congratulations to Isabel for being appointed to the T-32 in Immune System Development and Regulation (May 2018)

Isabel passed her prelim with flying colors and is officially a PhD candidate in DSRB!!! (May 2018)

Anna presented her research at the 2018 AAI meeting in Austin, Texas (May 2018)

Congratulations to Montserrat for receiving an NIAID R01 and a Lupus Foundation of America D.O.D grant!! Read about it here (May 2018)

Anna wins first place for her talk at the Vet Student Research Day! (March 2018)

Turns out Sparkles is a boy, and he celebrates his first birthday this month. Happy birthday, Mr. Sparkles! (March 2018)

Montserrat and Camille attended the 2018 Midwinter Conference of Immunologists in Monterey, CA (January 2018)

Camille was selected for a talk at the 2018 Penn Epigenetics Spatial and Functional Genomics Symposium (January 2018)

Camille’s paper was accepted in Plos Genetics.

Camille's NRSA predoctoral fellowship (F31) was awarded from the NIH! (August 2017).

Summer lab axe throwing competition: Anguera lab against the Lengner lab (Aug 2017).

Camille received a travel award to attend the EMBO Workshop on B cells in health and disease in Girona, Spain (August 2017).

The Anguera Lab welcomes its newest member, Sparkles, the axolotl (August 2017).

Welcome to the Lab, Bam Paneru! (July 2017).

Camille receives a Goldie Simon Preceptorship award from the Lupus Foundation of America (June 2017).

Welcome to the Lab, Isabel Sierra! Isabel is a CAMB-DSRB PhD Student (June 2017).

Welcome Donavon Sandoval-Heglund! Don is a Penn Undergraduate and is a part of the PURM summer research program (May 2017).

Erin Achilles (Vet ’19) received an NIH-Merial Summer Research grant to work in the lab (May 2017).

Steve received the Morris Animal Foundation summer research fellowship, Congrats Steve! (May 2017).

Welcome to the Anguera Lab, Anna Martin! Anna received an HHMI career fellowship grant! She will be taking a year off of Vet school to do research full-time in the Anguera & Atchison labs (April 2017).

Jianle’s JOVE methods paper is now in press (April 2017).

Camille was appointed to the Developmental Biology Training Grant (T32) at Penn (June 2016).

First lab publication to make the cover! Read more...

"LNCRHOXF1: a long noncoding RNA from the X-chromosome that suppresses viral response genes during development of the early human placenta" is now in press in Molecular Cell Biology (May 2016).

Jianle was selected to give a talk at the 10th annual meeting of the Organization for the Society of Sex Differences (May 2016). 

Camile was selected to attend the 2016 Van Andel Research Institute summer course on Epigenomics (May 2016). 

Steve Hanes received an NIH-Merial Summer Research grant (2016).

First publication from the Anguera Lab now in press at PNAS (March 2016).

Montserrat received an NIH-BIRCWH Scholarship (January 2016).

Ian Penkala placed 3rd in the 2015 Penn Vet Student Research Day presentations (March 2015).

Camille received a travel award to present her research at the 2016 Keystone Conference on Long noncoding RNAs (October 2015).

Jianle was selected to give a seminar on her research at the Penn Postdoctoral Research Symposium (October 2015).

Camille received a grant from the American Lupus Foundation (June 2015).