THE LOGSDON LAB
Lab photos & news
July 26-31, 2026
Glennis, Mariah, & Savana attend the Centromere Biology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar in Waterville Valley, NH, where Savana presents a poster and Glennis gives a talk. Glennis also serves on a discussion panel about communication modalities in science.
Finally, Savana was elected as the next co-chair of the Centromere Biology Gordon Research Seminar (along with Maddy O'Connor, UConn), and Glennis was elected as the next Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference (along with Dani Fachinetti, Institut Curie). The Black and Lampson labs also took a picture with their multi-generational academic family!
Left: Mariah Antopia, Glennis Logsdon, and Savana Hadjipanteli
Right: (front row) Mariah Antopia, Savana Hadjipanteli, Prakriti Kashyap, Preethi Kunchala; (back row) Praveen Kumara Allu, Nick Sapp, Guhan Anbalagan, Glennis Logsdon, Ben Black, Mike Lampson, Takashi Akera, Damian Dudka, Runi Das, Piero Lamelza.
July 24, 2026
Congratulations to Mariah and Saron on officially becoming Ph.D. candidates! We're so proud of you!
July 24, 2026
The lab celebrates three important milestones: Mariah and Saron passing their Ph.D. candidacy exam, Shenghan completing his postdoc, and the lab publishing a study on human centromere variation and evolution in Nature!
From L to R: (front row) Savana Hadjipanteli, Shenghan Gao, Glennis Logsdon with Pepe, Saron Akalu, Shu-Cheng Chuang; (back row) Waguea Carine Fongang, Paige Ryan, Alessia Daponte, Mariah Antopia
July 5, 2026
Glennis gives a keynote talk at the International Genome Graph Symposium in Ascona, Switzerland (with an amazing view of the alps)!
May 7, 2026
Glennis attends the Biology of Genomes Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, where she co-chairs a session on Computational and Statistical Genomics, gives a talk on centromere variation and evolution, and hangs out with collaborators like Erik Garrison (pictured with family).
April 30, 2026
Glennis co-organizes an Emerging Genomic Scientist Symposium for late-stage postdocs who are planning to go on the faculty job market this fall, along with Bogdan Pasaniuc, Brielin Brown, and Iain Mathieson (with support from Diane Fassett, Eileen McCann, the Department of Genetics, the Center for Computational Biomedicine, and the CHOP Omics Initiative).
From L to R: (front row) Glennis Logsdon (UPenn), Isabella Grabski (NYGC), Emma Dann (Stanford and Gladstone Institutes), Aoxing Liu (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Yun Deng (Stanford), Andrew Marderstein (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Bogdan Pasaniuc (UPenn); (back row) Dan Rader (UPenn; Chair), Iain Mathieson (UPenn), Giulio Formenti (Rockefeller), Cynthia Tchio (Harvard and MGH), Kangcheng Hou (Harvard), Xi-Lin Jiang (University of Cambridge), Brielin Brown (UPenn).
April 26, 2026
Shu-Cheng hosts a party at her house, where we have delicious food and play ping-pong and card games! Thanks for hosting, Shu-Cheng! We had a great time.
April 12, 2026
Glennis attends the Searle Scholars Meeting in Chicago, IL, where she meets other Searle Scholars and presents her work. Thank you so much to the Kinship Foundation for supporting our research!
March 27, 2026
Happy birthday to our ONT sequencing expert and master of all things at the bench, Shu-Cheng! We hope you enjoyed this blueberry yogurt cake from Paris Baguette!
February 17, 2026
The lab celebrates Lunar New Year and welcomes the year of the fire horse with lunch at Dim Sum House by Jane G's!
祝大家新年快乐，身体健康、万事如意！
From L to R: Savana Hadjipanteli, Shenghan Gao, Glennis Logsdon, Shu-Cheng Chuang, Keith Oshima, Saron Akalu, Carolina Montaño, and Mariah Antopia
February 6, 2026
The lab sips on bubble tea while hanging out with our morale booster, Pepe!
From L to R: Shenghan Gao, Glennis Logsdon, Mariah Antopia, Savana Hadjipanteli, Keith Oshima, and Shu-Cheng Chuang
January 5-9, 2026
Glennis attends a workshop on "Enlightening the Dark Matter of the Genome" in the Caribbean island of Barbados (co-organized by Guillaume Bourque and Cedric Feschotte, hosted by McGill University's Bellairs Research Institute)
From L to R: (front row) Ksenia Egorova, Nhi Nguyen, Guillaume Bourque, Yuxin Zhou, Riccardo Pianezza, Zhiping Weng; (middle row) Aurelien Doucet, Lisanne Mout, Andrew Mazzanti, Tugce Aktas, Gael Cristofari, ZZ Zhang, Glennis Logsdon, Lin He, Pio Alberto Sierra Rodriquez, Robert Hubley, Josefa Gonzalez; (back row) Mathieu Lupien, Richard Durbin, Vincent Colot, Magnus Nordborg, Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Sebastian Amigorena, Aurélien Petit, Arian Smit