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December 2022


Lab tree is not complete till it is festooned with popcorn and CSF3R immunofluorescence!

Happy Holidays!!!

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November 2022


Congrats to stellar graduate student Breanna Maniaci on her F31-Diversity Award from NIH/NHLBI!
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October 2022


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

This Magic Schoolbus theme really brings me back to my 90's childhood!

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October 2022


We had a lovely day in the sunshine at a pumpkin patch on Sauvie's Island!
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August 2022


LLAMA PARTY!!!

CDCB annual picnic brings a full Portlandia vibe!

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May 2022


Sarah, Lucie and Julia attend the Cincinnati Myeloid Meeting!

So great to connect again with our colleagues, and to share fun new data!
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May 2022


The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society named Dr. Julia Maxson as a rising star! Congratulations Julia on being selected for an LLS Scholar Award. She'll receive $120,000 per year for five years.
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April 2022


The Maxson and Braun labs gathered for team celebration filled with laughter, video games and even karaoke!

It was so fun to have everyone gathered in one place. We have a wonderful lab team!!

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April 2022


Thai Nguyen has joined the Maxson lab as a Computational Biology Intern!

We are excited to formally welcome Thai as a member of the team. She previously worked with the Maxson lab to develop CITE-Viz. (Poster below!) While working as an intern on our team, Thai will also be completing her Master's degree in the Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of Oregon.
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April 2022


CONGRATS DR. MALONEY!!

 Lauren has matched in Pediatrics at University of Colorado - Denver.  We are so excited for her to start this next phase of her career as a Resident Physician. 
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February 2022


Dr. Hanqian Carlson had joined the Maxson lab! We are so excited to welcome Dr. Carlson to the team. 

WELCOME HANQIAN!
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January 2022


Congrats to our interns, who worked with Garth Kong over the last few months to develop an exciting new program for analyzing CITE-Seq data!

CITE-Viz reproduces a flow cytometry-like workflow to allow users to intuitively subset populations of interest with no programming skills required.
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Top to bottom: Anjali Panikar, John Cheney, Thai Nguyen, Wesley Rosales

December 2021


Getting in the holiday spirit with team members from the Maxson and Braun labs. 
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December 2021


 The Maxson Lab attended the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in Atlanta, GA., where Breanna presented her research.

Both Sarah and Bree celebrated their 2021 ASH awards, which were featured on a display on-site. Congrats!!
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October 2021


Happy Halloween from
the Maxson lab.
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​Few things spookier
​than Reviewer #2!
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July 2021


WELCOME, LUCIE!

The Maxson lab is ecstatic to welcome Dr. Lucie Darmusey to our lab family.

​Dr. Darmusey is coming all the way from France, bringing with her a wealth of expertise in cancer genomics. In the Maxson lab, Lucie will be working on leukemia epigenetics and ASXL1 mutations.
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July 2021


Celebrating Zach starting his Doctor of Pharmacy program! We are so excited to support Zach as he takes this next step in his career. 
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June 2021


CONGRATS, SARAH!
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We are excited to share that Sarah Taylor has 
received the NIH Ruth L Kirschstein T32 Program in Biomedical Sciences training grant, which supports PBMS trainees in their second year of graduate school. 
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June 2021


Hunter Blaylock has joined the team as a Research Assistant. We are so excited to welcome him to the team!

WELCOME, HUNTER!
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April 2021


We are excited to share that Breanna Maniaci has been awarded the ASH Minority Hematology Graduate Award! Bree was selected for this award from a competitive pool of applicants and we are very proud of her achievement.

CONGRATS, BREE!
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March 2021


WELCOME TO THE LAB, SARAH!

The Maxson Lab is excited to announce that Sarah Taylor has joined our group. Sarah moved to Portland from Roanoke, Virginia and is excited about the opportunities to explore the outdoors—hiking and biking—in the PNW!

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November 2020


Garth Kong has joined the Maxson lab as a Research Assistant. He will be providing bioinformatics support to all lab members and writing software to analyze sequencing datasets.

WELCOME, GARTH!
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July 2020


CONGRATULATIONS TO BREANNA!

Bree passed her written and oral quals today without revisions! We are excited to see what comes next for this talented and dedicated scientist. 


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July 2020


Rowan Callahan has joined the Maxson lab as a Research Assistant. He will be working with our team on bioinformatics projects and epigenetic data analysis.

WELCOME, ROWAN!
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February 2020


Dr. Carratt's received Collins Medical Trust and Medical Research Foundation awards!

She was also recently awarded a Knight Collaborative Research Grant, which she wrote with computational biology graduate student, Ben Weeder. 


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December 2019


Julia and Sarah attended the 2019 American Society of Hematology Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Dr. Carratt presented her research modulation of Ras-driven oncogenesis by mutations in SETBP1, for which she won an ASH abstract achievement award! 

Dr. Maxson presented on myeloid lineage enhancers and a novel therapeutic target for CSF3R/CEBPA-mutant AML at the Myeloid Workshop. 
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September 2019


Congratulations to Dr. Maxson, who has been named ​a Lamfrom Laureate!

The Knight Cancer Institute established the Hildegard Lamfrom Research Scholar Awards to support promising early-stage cancer researchers at OHSU.
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July 2019


The Maxson Lab, along with other investigators from the Knight Cancer Institute, traveled to Colorado for the FASEB Hematologic Malignancies Conference.

We spent six days immersed in scientific discussion, and Sarah presented her postdoctoral research for the first time.

We also took time to enjoy the beautiful mountain venue. Julia went hiking at the iconic Maroon Bells, and Sarah and Bree went white water river rafting!
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June 2019


Congratulations to our graduate student Breanna, who has been awarded a PERT T32 Training grant! 

​Congrats, Breanna!
We are so proud of you!
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April 2019


Huge congrats to Sarah, who has been awarded an NRSA fellowship!

​Sarah made a big field shift when she joined the Maxson lab, quickly picked up new techniques, gathered lots of preliminary data and wrote a beautiful grant in her first 10 months that was funded on first submission!
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March 2019


We are so excited to welcome our first graduate student to the Maxson lab. Breanna has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Cancer Biology Program at OHSU.

WELCOME, BREANNA!
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January 2019


We escaped with time to spare!

The Maxson Lab completed an escape room challenge. It was great to see the team communicate and work so well together.
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December 2018


The Maxson Lab is relocating! 
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Can’t wait to be reunited with our amazing colleagues in the new KCRB building. 
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December 2018


It's official! The fabulous Lauren makes the transition from extended lab family to lab nuclear family. Lauren will be completing her physician scientist training project in our lab.

​WELCOME, LAUREN!
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November 2018


Dr. Maxson receives an ASH Junior Faculty Scholar Award for the team’s work on the role of ASXL1 and SETBP1 mutations in Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia.

​Congrats Julia!
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August 2018


The lab celebrates at Sarah's wedding at the Elysian Ballroom in downtown Portland.

​Congratulations Dr. Carratt!
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May 2018


Zachary Schonrock joins the Maxson Lab as a research assistant. Zach recently graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a B.A. in Chemistry.  We are excited to have him on the team! 

WELCOME, ZACH!
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May 2018


Last lab lunch before Amy goes on maternity leave! We will miss you, but we are so excited for the new addition!
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March 2018


Julia attends the EHA-ASH Translational Research Training in Hematology workshop in Milan!
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October 2017


Sarah Carratt joins the Maxson Lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Sarah recently completed her PhD at UC Davis where she studied pharmacology and toxicology. In the Maxson Lab, she will be applying her pharmacology expertise to develop targeted drug therapies for leukemia. 

WELCOME, SARAH!
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August 2017


Amy & Julia attended the FASEB Hematological Malignancies Conference in Vermont and took a dip in the Saxton River to cool off.











Amy even befriended the only other native "Mainer" at the conference, Kira, so they could compete in a lobster shucking contest.
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June 2017


Amy presents her work "CRISPR/Cas9 to Model the Genetic Complexity of CSF3R-Driven Myeloid Malignancies" at The Broad Institute in Boston. 
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February 2017


Cody emerges victorious after a long battle with a tricky genotyping PCR. Way to go, Cody!
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November 2016


Amy's first CRISPR experiment worked beautifully! She was so excited that she took the gel photo home to put on her fridge. She is slightly less excited about Julia taking her picture while she's trying to set up her PCR.
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