September 2025:
Wow it’s been a long time since an update! Here’s some highlights from the Reh Lab:
Welcome New Lab Members! A warm welcome to our new postdocs Josh, Evelyn, and Bindia! We also have a new MD-PhD student, Brennan, and lab tech, Ashlyn!
Goodbye Old Lab Members! Goodbye to Abby and Sierra! Sierra is starting a Masters of Public Health at Columbia University, and Abby moved to Ohio to work in an ophthalmology clinic and study for Med School. Congratulations to our undergraduates Gracious and Kayla who have since graduated as well.
Awards: Congratulations to Josh for receiving a Vision Training Grant and Evelyn for receiving an ISCRM fellowship!
Papers: Marina and Kiara have recently submitted papers! Check out the preprints below, and check out the publications page for other more from the Reh lab.
CUT&TIME captures the history of open chromatin in developing neurons
August 2023:
Congratulations to Levi Todd on starting his own lab at SUNY-Upstate! We will miss you!
AUGUST 2023:
Congratulations to Marina Pavlou for receiving the Weill Neurohub Fellowship for 2023-2025!
June 2023:
Congratulations to Wesley Jenkins for successfully defending his thesis!
November 2022:
New paper from the lab published in Science Advances!
August 2022:
Congratulations to Kiara Eldred for being selected as a 2022 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow!
https://www.hhmi.org/news/25-early-career-scientists-become-hhmi-hanna-gray-fellows
AUGUST 2022:
Congratulations to Marina Pavlou for receiving the 2022-2023 ISCRM Postdoctoral Fellowship! Well deserved!
January 2022:
Check out our new publication “Single-cell ATAC-seq of fetal human retina and stem-cell-derived retinal organoids shows changing chromatin landscapes during cell fate acquisition” in Cell Reports!
December 2021:
Congratulations to Akshaya Sridhar and Marcus Hooper on their new positions at Genentech and the Allen Institute! We will miss you!
October 2021:
Check out our new paper “Efficient stimulation of retinal regeneration from Müller glia in adult mice using combinations of proneural bHLH transcription factors” in Cell Reports. We test new BHLH factors to see a greater diversity of fates in reprogrammed cells, as well as greater reprogramming efficiency. For an overview of the paper check out our press release, linked here.
September 2021:
Congratulations to Alex for starting graduate school at UC Berkeley! We will miss you.
May 2021:
Congratulations to Marcus for receiving the IIRF fellowship award for his research on retinal regeneration.
December 2020:
Closing out the year with our new paper, “Microglia Suppress Ascl1-Induced Retinal Regeneration in Mice”, which was released in Cell Reports. Find the paper here.
August 2020:
Our new paper investigating transcription factor binding during reprogramming, “Developmental changes in the accessible chromatin, transcriptome and Ascl1-binding correlate with the loss in Müller Glial regenerative potential”, has recently been released in Nature Scientific Reports. Read it at this link.
March 2020:
Find Tom’s interview with The Scientist in “Scientists Grapple with US Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research”.
February 2020:
Listen to Tom on the most recent episode of the Stem Cell Podcast in
Our new paper “Single-Cell Transcriptomic Comparison of Human Fetal Retina, hPSC-Derived Retinal Organoids, and Long-Term Retinal Cultures” has been released in Cell Reports and our submission got the cover image! Check out the paper here, and the press release here.
Our new paper STAT Signaling Modifies Ascl1 Chromatin Binding and Limits Neural Regeneration from Muller Glia in Adult Mouse Retina is now available in Cell Reports!