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October 2019 - our fancy mass-specs are here!
March 2025
Kaitlyn's Good Bye lunch. Thank you for rotating with us and for doing so much cool stuff in a short time :)
February 2025
Tugce hosted the Kanarek Lab for a special evening of fantastic Turkish cuisine. Thank you!
January 2025
Kanarek Lab is celebrating the holidays and entering the new year with a smile :)
Still December 2024
Congratulations Alan for being awarded the PhRMA Pre-Doctoral Award.
We are so proud and also thankful that you provided us with a great reason to celebrate with an ice cream cake
December 2024
Good bye lunch at Maguro Brookline
Both Alice and Max's last week in the lab :(
We will miss you!
November 2024
Max and Amy presented a poster in the Smith Family Foundation Celebration for Excellence in Science Awardees.
Max's first poster - - - and many more to follow :)
November 2024
Welcome Michal - Staff Scientist for our metabolomics platform
and congrats on receiving the BCH Pilot Award (photo and ceremony by BCH Faculty Development Office)
September 2024
Welcome Max - our master intern from Germany
August 2024
FASEB One-Carbon Metabolism meeting - Amy gave a phenomenal talk, Tugce rocked it at the Metabolomics Workshop, and Stacy got all of us going with the AV support!
GOOD JOB EVERYONE
August 2024
Lab BBQ at Naama's house
Chef L. Schweitzer was once again recruited to cater the event
August 2024
Happy Birthday Nancy
July 2024
Congratulations to Nancy for an excellent score on her F31!
Great achievement :)
Also in July - Welcome Nicole - our new summer intern
June 2024
Finally - our RO1 has kicked in! We are ready to take on this study on MTX and its toxicity in the brain!
June 2024
Nancy was awarded the FujiFilm Fellowship. Congratulations :)
June 2024
Welcome Stacy!
Stacy is a summer intern who will work with Peng on our T cell project
June 2024
Congratulations to the three best poster awardees: Alan - Best Poster in the Landry Cancer Consortium, and Nancy and Riley in the HMS Pathology Retreat
May 2024
Naama is getting 1 year wiser (fine. older)
April 2024
BCH Pathology retreat
March 2024
Good bye Bory!
We are so sad that you leave us, yet so happy for you for your next role as a head of a lab in the Medical University of Vienna
These people are so lucky to have you!!!!!!!
March 2024
Thank you Boston Children's for supporting our work focused on T cell metabolism
February 2024
Led by Peng, we celebrated the Lunar New Year.
Happy Year of the Dragon :)
January 2024
Kanarek lab celebrates the beginning of the new year .
HAPPY 2024
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January 2024
Happy Birthday Peng :)
December 2023
Congratulations Adam and Nancy for the acceptance of their paper to Science Advances.
November 2023
Goodbye lunch to Maeve / all you can eat @ Happy Lamb, Cambridge
November 2023
Thank you South Shore Action for Hope for your support of our research!
October 2023
WHAT!!!!
Halloween party with Chiarle lab
Also goodbye party to Pauline and Lea
August 2023
Lab BBQ - at the Kanarek-Schweitzer Residence
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August 2023
Lab Hike with Chiarle lab.
Watertown to Waltham
....with excellent Turkish lunch for the hungry hikers.
Of course.
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June 2023
Peng and Lulu housewarming party.
More like a belly-warming party
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June 2023
Nancy passed her qualifying exam.
CONGRATULATIONS NANCY!!
June 2023
Both Alan and Amy won the "Best Poster Award" in the pan Harvard Medical School pathology retreat, Boston, MA
We are SOOOOO PROUD of you :)
May 2023
I don't even know
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April 2023
Riley and Alan presenting their posters in the STARR retreat, Cold Spring harbor, NY
April 2023
Three visiting master students from Germany joined the lab: Lea Hammer,
Maeve Souza, and Pauline Doettling.
Welcome!
April 2023
Congratulations to Adam for successfully defending his Ph.D thesis. Oops sorry - meant to say Dr. Maynard
April 2023
Congratulations to Amy (AGAIN!) for being selected as a Landry Cancer Consortium Honorary Fellow. So many good "Amy's news" in one spring.
March 2023
Congratulations to Amy - our very own NSF GRFP awardee AND passed the PQE.
We are so proud and happy
March 2023
Good bye lunch @ Sweet Cheeks Q.
Sadly, Annabel and Catherine's last week is here, so we drowned our sorrow in meat.
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September 2022 - Kanarek-Muranen labs trip to the Arboretum.
January 2023
Holidays party at the Kanarek-Schweitzer residence
January 2023
Bory's birthday - cake and coffee.
Thank you Riley for making a cake that is "better than $&%"
December 2022
Holidays party with the Muranen and Ubellacker labs.
Thank you Jeet and Taru for hosting!!!!
November 29-30 2022
Boire-Kanarek mini STARR retreat
November 2022
lab lunch @ Victoria Seafood
November 2022 - Red carpet event
To celebrate our video tutorials and to say good bye to their maker - Andrew
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September 2022 - Welcome to Catherine, Annabel, and Efrat!
Catherine and Annabel will join us for their Master, while Efrat is here for a short research project.
August 2022 - Congratulations.
We got the 2022 Bergmann Memorial Research Award
August 2022 -
lab hike at the blue hills.
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We might have had some lunch and a drink at Trillium afterwards
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August 2022 -
Amy and Nancy joined the Kanarek lab as Ph.D. students.
Welcome both :)
More on July 2022 -
congratulations! we received the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation Research Grant together with the Nachmani lab in Jerusalem.
Can't wait to work with them on this exciting project. RNA biology! definitely out of our comfort zone ;-)
July 2022 -
Ilhan joined for the summer, Riley joined as our new tech, and Nancy Pohl is doing her rotation with us - WELCOME all :)
Our collaborative work with the Lehtinen lab about MTX toxicity in the brain is now accepted to Neuron
... many reasons to celebrate, plus its summer and fun to have a chilled drink on a Friday afternoon
June 2022 - great news - Naama is now a Pew Scholar
Thank you Pew!
June 2022 - the Muranen-Kanarek Retreat @ Stratton Mountain, VT
The group
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The science
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The food
The hike
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The fun
We also had our special guests: Nada Kalaany, BCH, Harvard Medical School, and Ben Batorsky, EAI, Northeastern University
June 2022 - Happy birthday - the lab is 3 years old.
Celebrated during the Muranen-Kanarek Retreat
May 2022 - lab dinner @ the Kanarek-Schweitzer residence.
Also in the picture - Amy Yu -
BBS rotation student
April 2022 - some good news -
Alan received the Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Peng received the Croucher Postdoctoral Fellowship
and we all survived eating natto for breakfast in our coffee hour AND century eggs in a lab lunch @ Xiang Yu China Bistro
February 2022 - Kanarek lab is excited to be selected as a 2022 recipient for the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research for our research of thee cellular response to folate deprivation
March 2022 - Kanarek lab lunch
@ Mahaniyom, Brookline
December 2021 - great news!
STARR Cancer Consortium will fund our collaborative work with the Boire lab
December 2021 - We are so excited to have Peng Wang, our visiting scientist, as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab! Welcome
December 2021 - Holidays Party with the Muranen lab
Thank you Taru and Jeet for hosting!
The hats for the Muranen-Kanarek retreat that never happened (thank you COVID) were finally handed to lab people during the party.
Retreat 2022 is now in the planning
November 2021 - our new mass spec - the Thermo Lego alpha
September 29 2021 - Lab hike @ Rocky Woods, Medfield
some challenges along the way
and lunch from French Press (Needham) for those who made it
September 20 2021 - Lab outing
@ Taberna de Haro, Brookline
Summer 2021 -
Andrew at work
Summer 2021 -
Andrew at play
(@ Lab BBQ)
July 2021 - Lab BBQ.
Catered by local chef Larry Schweitzer
June 2021 -
Anna is back for the summer!
June 1st 2021 -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY lab
:)
The lab is 2 years old now.
Boy, time flies when you are in a pandemic!
And more on March 2021 - The Kanarek Lab received Boston Children's Hospital Pilot grant with the Lehtinen and Steen labs.
This time we went out to cellebrate!
More on March 2021 - Andrew Culhane joined us as a lab tech.
Welcome!
March 2021 - Congratulations to Bory on her promotion!
Bory is now a Harvard Medical School Instructor
#Amazing_Bory
January 2021 - Margaret Zimmer, Harvard Medical School graduate student (BBS program), joined us.
Welcome!
Kanarek Lab picnic. November 20 2020.
Celebrating the HSCI grant and the good weather.
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Of course Bory talked us into having sushi.
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August 2020 - The Kanarek lab is saying good bye to Anna.
This was followed by ice cream...
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July 2020 - The Kanarek lab is picnicing in Cambridge....
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April 2020 - The Kanarek lab is excited to contribute to the IMPACC study of COVID-19 with support by the NIAID:
https://discoveries.childrenshospital.org/covid-19-immune-responses/
April 2020 - Gabrielle's Angels Foundation is supporting our research of the combined therapy of methotrexate and histidine in leukemia. Thank you!
January 2020 - We are now funded by the Charles H. Hood Foundation. Thank you!
December 2019 - Adam Maynard, Harvard Medical School graduate student (BBS program), joined us.
Welcome!
November 2019 - Nuria Vital, a visiting scientist, joined us.
Welcome :)
October 2019 - our fancy mass-specs are here!
unpacking....
and here they are!
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two Q-Exactives almost ready to roll
installing....
Summer 2019 - The lab is ready for some exciting science
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