Swanson Fellows

Jonathan Karr joined the Column Group as a Swanson Fellow in 2023 after completing his PhD in molecular and cellular biology at UC Berkeley under Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq. His thesis work focused on exploring new frameworks for understanding eukaryotic gene regulation that incorporate the findings of recent dynamical studies of nuclear proteins. In […]

Dr. Chen joined the Column Group as a Swanson Fellow in 2023 after completing her PhD in virology and immunology at UC San Francisco. As part of her graduate thesis in Melanie Ott’s group, she discovered a novel immune evasion function of the viral envelope protein of SARS-CoV-2 and first characterized the limited immunity elicited