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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 30/09/2026

A very happy belated birthday to our fearless leader, @sgrayg.bsky.social 🎂🧬🎊🥂

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to the #DukeSCI Colloquium! It was a great day filled with awesome science, good conversation, and opportunities for new collaborations. We already can't wait for next year🤩🧬A special thank you to our keynote speakers @rongfan8.bsky.social & @junyuecao.bsky.social

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 18/09/2026

Congratulations to Gregory lab PhD student Max Bucklan on passing his prelim exam this week! We are so proud of you Max 🍾🥂🥳

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 17/09/2026

Meet Sicheng Jing, a Master's student in our lab from #DukeBiostats. Following her B.S. in #Bioinformatics from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, she is studying computational #genomics, transcript isoforms & protein structure in #neurological diseases. 🧬Sicheng enjoys trying new recipes, and watching anime.

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 27/08/2026

Anticipated in early 2027, the #DukeMGC will offer the @10xgenomics.bsky.social #Atera platform!🧬 Specs: - 1.3x #Chomium sensitivity - greater resolution than #VisiumHD - x2 #Xenium capture area size - lower cost per tissue than #Xenium - targeted & WT (18k genes) assays - FF or FFPE

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 17/07/2026

This week, the #DukeMGC ran our 2500th #SingleCell sample 🎊🎉 More than 10 species and 100s of projects later and we still love generating high quality #scRNAseq data for our customers! For more info on our single cell services, visit: dmpi.duke.edu/cores/molecu...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 16/07/2026

Gregory lab PhD student, Max Bucklan, has been selected as a winner of the @laskerfdn.bsky.social Video Contest!! He used #Lego to explain his work on atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (#ATRT), a rare #pediatric #BrainTumor. Congratulations Max! Check it out: laskerfoundation.org/meet-the-win...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 09/07/2026

Last week, our fearless leader @sgrayg.bsky.social and the rest of the @geneticssociety.bsky.social Program Committee went to Capitol Hill to advocate for human #genetics and #genomics research, highlighting the importance of NIH funding 🧬

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 08/07/2026

This summer, we are hosting Samuelle, a senior of @unrcabnr.bsky.social for the #MSSociety Undergrad Summer Research Program! She is examining cortical samples from #MS patients & their #genomic data. Outside the lab, she hangs out with her rabbit, Cowie (who looks like a cow).

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 18/06/2026

The #DukeSCIRIP colloquium is back for another year to highlight #SingleCell and #spatial science happening at Duke, #UNC, @ncstate.bsky.social & #NCCU! This will be a day-long event (8:15am-5pm), with both academic & corporate talks. For more info and to register: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-... 🧬🔬

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 17/06/2026

#DukeMGC & #Illumina held a seminar to present current Illumina #SingleCell projects here at Duke and results from the MGC's recent benchmarking paper (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...) 🧬 JULY 1: Illumina single cell will be available at the MGC! Reach out for a consult: DMPI-MGC@dm.duke.edu

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 02/06/2026

Meet Zach, a rising Duke sophomore and our new undergrad in the lab! He will be working with #Xenium #SpatialOmics data to examine #CNStissue #lesions in #Cancer patients with hypermutated #BrainTumors. Outside of the lab, he enjoys playing sports and hiking 🧠🌄

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 29/05/2026

To celebrate Khooshbu's time the #DukeMGC, we went to Top Golf! We had an un-fore-gettable time 🤩⛳️🏌️‍♀️

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 21/05/2026

The final #DukeSCIRIP seminar for this academic year will be 6/3 from 12-1pm, featuring a talk from Dr. Jian Hu of @emoryuniversity.bsky.social 'Uncovering the Dark Spatial Transcriptomes in Brain' For more information or to join virtually, please visit our website: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 04/05/2026

Meet Sicheng, our new Master’s student from #DukeBiostats! She will be working on developing an analysis pipeline for #SingleCell #LongRead isoform data, with a focus on ORF annotation, NMD prediction, & protein structure prediction in the context of neurological diseases 🧬🧠

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 01/05/2026

Last weekend, we had the opportunity to take part in Duke Brain Tumor Center's #AngelsAmongUs 5K & Walk for Hope! Gregory lab student, Lauren Whaley, shared her work on #GBM in the #BrainTumor science tent and Team BTOP was able to help in the fundraising of $2.8mi for brain tumor research! 🧠🔬🧬

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 01/05/2026

Congrats to #DukeMGC's Khooshbu Patel, who is starting her PhD in Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy @ UNC Fall '26. She will focus on translating healthcare innovations, #Genomics & #PrecisionMedicine into clinical practice. Khooshbu, we are so proud and wish you all the best in this next chapter!

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 30/04/2026

Another year of #GliaCamp under our belts! Shoutout to Gregory lab PhD students for sharing their #Xenium data: Emma with a talk on #MS & Lauren with a poster on #GBM 🧠🧬 Thanks to @filianolab.bsky.social for spearheading organization of this event. We look forward to it every year 🤩

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 29/04/2026

Next installment of #DukeSCIRIP is NEXT WEEK on Wednesday 12-1pm! Featuring talks from the Snyder lab & Kay lab on #SpatialTranscriptomics applications in #cancer 🧬

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 28/04/2026

A big congratulations to Gregory Lab PhD student, Odmaa Bayaraa, on receiving the @dukemedschool.bsky.social Dean's Award for Research Excellence! We are all so proud of her hard work and dedication and cannot wait to see what she does next 🥳🧠

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 27/04/2026

The results are in - the Gregory Lab's 3rd annual #LabAppreciationWeek podium is as follows: 1st: Ellora Haukenfrers 2nd: Julia Smith 3rd: Emma Hatchell But the real winner is Emily Hocke for organizing this whole week for us! We already can't wait for next year... 🌟🧑‍🔬👏

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 27/04/2026

To wrap up our #LabAppreciationWeek, we had a lab potluck and played Jeopardy, created by #DukeMGC's Emily Hocke & Alan Smith 🤩🍲

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 27/04/2026

Fourth event of our annual lab olympics was Lab Tape Shuffleboard! 🎯🧑‍🔬 It was a close game, but #DukeMGC Research Tech, Alan Smith pulled away in the second round to secure a win 🏆

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 24/04/2026

Third event of our lab olympics was the dry ice spoon race 🧊🥄 Disaster struck in the final heat, where our fearless leader dropped & crushed his dry ice piece.. but Odmaa Bayaraa persisted and pulled off a win! 🏃

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 24/04/2026

Second event of our annual lab olympics was the glove swap race! We put gloves on, do 10 jumping jacks, and then race to take the gloves off and put them back on ⏲️🧤 Winner was honorary Gregory lab member, Dianne Cruz 🏆

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 24/04/2026

First up for the 3rd annual Gregory Lab lab olympics was the 'pipette tip ejection' competition! Our fearless leader @sgrayg.bsky.social sunk a 25-point shot to seal the win 🏆

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 24/04/2026

Day 4 of #LabAppreciationWeek we dressed for the wrong occasion! 🏂👩‍🌾

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 22/04/2026

Socks & sandals, lots of color, and some fun accessories to boot... day 3 of #LabAppreciationWeek is WACKY WEDNESDAY 🥳

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 21/04/2026

What do three black cats and a bunny all have in common...? They love #LabAppreciationWeek! Day 2: 'Dress as Your Pet or Favorite Animal Day'

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 21/04/2026

We cannot wait to see what @10xgenomics.bsky.social #Atera brings... Some highlights: - WT profiling at 18,000+ plex with options for customization - increased throughput - single-cell level sensitivity - lower cost-per-sample Let's see what's possible with the impossible!! 🧬🔬💻🤩

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 21/04/2026

Had a great time presenting Lauren Whaley's work at the #AACR26 poster sesson! 'Integrative #SingleNuclei #SpatialTranscriptomic profiling of primary and recurrent human #glioblastoma reveals cell-specific EGFRvIII expression & ANXA1 signaling axis' #GBM 🧬🧠

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 20/04/2026

#AACR26 is underway and our fearless leader happened to run into Gregory lab alum, Santosh Gupta! We love getting a chance to reconnect with old lab mates. Talk about cell-ebrating #LabAppreciationWeek! All the way from San Diego to Durham 🛫🥳

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 20/04/2026

It's the Gregory lab's 3rd annual #LabAppreciationWeek!! We can't wait to share what we get up to this week in celebration of our lab's hard work, all year round🧬😁 First on the docket is Decades Day! Can you guess which decades are which? 👀

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 30/03/2026

Yesterday our fearless leader @sgrayg.bsky.social had the opportunity to speak about #DukeMGC's groundbreaking work with @cellanome.bsky.social at @abrf.bsky.social on the panel 'Optofluidics & CellCages: Approaches for Multimodal #SingleCell Discovery'. Thanks #ABRF26! 🧬🔬💻

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 19/03/2026

Some members of the Gregory lab spent the weekend enjoying the beautiful cherry blossoms in #DukeGardens and it was picture-perfect!

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 19/03/2026

April 1 at 12pm, the next installment of the #DukeSCIRIP seminar series, featuring Helen Rueckert & the Gregory lab's Odmaa Bayaraa! In MSRBIII room 1125 or online via duke.zoom.us/j/9192379974... Want to present? Interested in more info? Visit our webpage: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 18/03/2026

Today, the #DukeMGC is celebrating our 500th @10xgenomics.bsky.social #Xenium sample! From our first run in March of 2023 to now, we've learned a lot and generated data for many publications 🧬 For more info on our #SpatialOmics services, see dmpi.duke.edu/cores/molecu... #SpatialTranscriptomics

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 09/03/2026

Presenting the #DukeMGC poster from #AGBT26 'Beyond 'Black Box' Analysis: A platform-agnostic guide for non-formalin fixed #SingleCell RNA sequencing' For more information, check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 06/03/2026

#AGBT26 was ex-cell-ent! Thank you to @agbt.bsky.social for another great meeting. We're already counting down the days to next year... 🧬

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 04/03/2026

Today, #DukeMGC's Ellora Haukenfrers presented at #DukeSCIRIP 'A platform-agnostic evaluation of non-formalin fixed single cell RNA technologies' Interested in learning more? Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Learn more about SCIRIP: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 25/02/2026

Day 1 of #AGBT26 was awesome! #DukeMGC's Karen & VJ are ready to rock out for and talk science for the rest of the week 🧬🎸😁

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 23/02/2026

Next #DukeSCIRIP seminar is March 4th 12-1pm online or in MSRBIII! Join us for talks on ongoing research in #SpatialTranscriptomics and #SingleCell at Duke, this month from the Ji lab and #DukeMGC🧬 For more info or to join virtually, please visit dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 20/02/2026

Work from the #DukeMGC will be on display at #AGBT2026: Tuesday 1:30-3:30, poster #401 Wednesday 4:45-6:15, poster #472 Come find us to chat about our data! 🧬 #AGBT #SpatialTranscriptomics #SingleCell #Benchmarking #LongReadSequencing

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 29/01/2026

We are thrilled to share the 1st pub out of the #DukeMGC. Congrats to Lab Analyst Ellora Haukenfrers' on your 1st first author paper! We present 'A platform-agnostic evaluation of non-formalin fixed #singlecell RNA technologies' #benchmarking #scRNAseq www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 20/01/2026

Upcoming on Feb 4, the next #DukeSCIRIP seminar! Featuring talks from Lauren Parker of the Karra lab & Hamayl Afzal. For more information or to contact #DukeSCIRIP, please visit out website: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 30/12/2025

That's a wrap on another year in the Gregory lab! 2025 was filled with many hours of hard work in the lab & R Studio, with some fun along the way. Cheers to 2026 from all of us - we can't wait to show you what we've been working on this year! 🥂🧬🧠 #SingleCell #SpatialOmics

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 26/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Gregory Lab 🎀🥂

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 19/12/2025

January 7th 2-1pm in MSRBIII or online, #DukeSCIRIP seminar series continues! @epigenometech.bsky.social's Chris Hartle will be presenting the talk '‘Deciphering Single-Cell Chromatin Landscapes in the Human Immune System: A First Look’ 🧬 For more information: dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-...

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 17/12/2025

Yesterday, the Gregory lab had our annual holiday lunch & white elephant gift exchange A great time was had by all! After all, we have holiday cheer in our DNA (and on our lab cart)🧬🎄🕎

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The Gregory Lab @ DukeU @gregorylab.bskyverified.social · 12/12/2025

Today, #DukeMGC gave a talk & poster presentation on our available services at the #Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory! We love the opportunity to share the work we do... 🧬🧠 Interested in learning more about MGC services? Please visit our website: dmpi.duke.edu/cores/molecu...

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