THE LOGSDON LAB
Lab photos & news
2026
May 7, 2026
Glennis and Willard attend The Biology of Genomes Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, where Glennis co-chairs a session on Computational and Statistical Genomics and gives a talk on centromere variation and evolution, and Willard presents a poster.
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