THE LOGSDON LAB
Lab photos & news
2025
December 5, 2025
The lab enjoys a virtual reality experience at Sandbox VR! Afterwards, everyone goes to Glennis's place for a holiday party, complete with a potluck and white elephant gift exchange.
Holiday party pic, from L to R: Shenghan Gao, Savana Hadjipanteli, Mariah Antopia, Saron Akalu, Keith Oshima, Mohamed Imran, Glennis Logsdon, Pepe, Carolina Montaño, Shu-Cheng Chuang, Alessia Daponte, Ray (Shu-Cheng's son), Zhenyu Zhao
November 11, 2025
The lab celebrates Keith's birthday with a strawberry cheesecake made by Glennis! Happy birthday, Keith! We hope you had a great birthday!
Not pictured: Keith enjoying the cake and sharing pictures from his trip to Japan. ​​
October 29, 2025
Carolina and Glennis dress up as Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked at the Epigenetics Institute Halloween party! Other lab members make spooky origami figures while enjoying pizza and candy.​​
October 22, 2025
Glennis gives a talk at the National Academy of Sciences' Blavatnik US-Israel Scientific Forum on Genome Medicine Over a Human Lifetime in Washington, DC and meets other scientists from the US and Israel!​​
October 20, 2025
Shenghan gives a talk on his recent work on human centromere genetic and epigenetic variation at the Penn Epigenetics Institute Retreat! Savana and Shenghan also present posters on their research.
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Photo credit: Shu-Cheng Chuang
October 10, 2025
Glennis presents the lab's work at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” in Bari, Italy, and has an amazing time hanging out with her collaborators. A special thank you to Mario Ventura, Claudia Catacchio, and Francesca Antonacci for inviting her to the symposium! ​​
October 6-7, 2025
Keith and Shenghan present posters at the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) annual meeting in Memphis, TN! Glennis gives a talk at the same meeting.
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Photo credit: Mitchell Vollger
October 3, 2025
The lab celebrates Carolina's and Mariah's birthdays with a cake from Paris Baguette and pineapple Dole whip! Happy birthday, both of you!
October 1, 2025
The lab takes a group photo by the LOVE statue on UPenn's campus!
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From L to R: Saron Akalu, Keith Oshima, Savana Hadjipanteli, Carolina Montaño, Pepe, Glennis Logsdon, Shu-Cheng Chuang, Mariah Antopia, Mohamed Imran, Shenghan Gao
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Photo credit: JiaKo Hung
August 15th, 2025
The lab enjoys a summer outing at Painting with a Twist, where we painted a galactic view with paints that glow under blacklight!
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From L to R: (front row) Savana Hadjipanteli, Carolina Montaño, Keith Oshima, Shu-Cheng Chuang, Shenghan Gao; (back row) Glennis Logsdon, Mohamed Imran, Mariah Antopia, Saron Akalu, Tensae Assefa, and Yujing Liu
July 24th, 2025
Glennis, Saron, and Mariah attend the 66th McKusick Short Course on Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics in Bar Harbor, ME! Glennis also gives a lecture on completing the sequence of the human genome using long-read sequencing technologies.
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From L to R: Glennis Logsdon, Saron Akalu, and Mariah Antopia
July 3rd, 2025
Glennis, Keith, and others in the HGSVC publish a paper in Nature entitled "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes". This work debuts near-complete reference genomes from 65 diverse individuals and the hidden structural variation within them.
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Listen to Glennis, Adam Phillippy (NIH/NHGRI), and Christine Beck (JAX) discuss this paper on Science Friday, a public radio show and podcast!
June 9th and 23rd, 2025
Saron Akalu (G&E graduate student) and Mariah Antopia (GCB graduate student) officially join the lab! Welcome to both of you! We're so happy to have you as part of the lab.​
May 29th, 2025
The Logsdon Lab celebrates Savana's successful prelim defense and advancement to Ph.D. candidacy! Congratulations, Savana! We're so proud of you.
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From L to R: Shu-Cheng Chuang, Jess Knapp, Ryan LaPointe, Saron Akalu, Shenghan Gao, Mariah Antopia, Keith Oshima, Imran, Savana Hadjipanteli, Pepe, and Glennis Logsdon.
May 20th, 2025
Glennis attends and presents at the HGSVC meeting at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland! She also gives a public lecture in their seminar series on human genome variation.
May 8th, 2025
Glennis and others in the T2T Consortium publish a paper in Nature entitled "Complete sequencing of ape genomes". This work sets the stage for future T2T reference genomes of nonhuman primates that will enable large-scale evolutionary analyses!
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Image: The cover of the May 8, 2025 issue of Nature.
May 2nd, 2025
The lab celebrates Shu-Cheng's birthday with a cake from Paris Baguette! Happy belated birthday, Shu-Cheng! We hope you enjoyed the cake.
April 14th, 2025
Glennis is selected as a 2025 Searle Scholar and is awarded $300,000 over 3 years for her work on human centromere variation and engineering! We are so grateful to the Kinship Foundation for this award.​
April 4th, 2025
The lab celebrates the acceptance of our latest paper, Carolina's Rapid Scholar Award from the Academic Pediatric Association, and Carolina's acceptance to the Master of Science in Translational Research (MSTR) degree program at Penn and slot on the Clinical and Translational Science (CTSA) TL1 training grant!! Congrats to all!​
March 7th, 2025
Glennis and Pepe advocate for scientific research at the Stand Up for Science rally in Philly!
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Photo credit: Teddy Drivas (UPenn)
February 28th, 2025
The lab enjoys bubble tea while hanging out with Pepe, our lab mascot, and discussing ways to advocate for science and research!
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