Mar.15.2024: To celebrate Fu is starting his own lab in April, we had a ZZ-Lab version of “Fast & Furious”🏎🏁!!
Jan. 10.2024: Showing off our painting skills (New year celebration!).
Oct.23.2024: ZZ visited DK and Lu in Shanghai and met his academic grandchildren for the 1st time🥂🍻!!
Sep.22.2023: Farewell to our beloved Weijia! We played ultimate frisbee and had a scarf show👊!
July.5.2023: Part 2 of our eccDNA Nature paper celebration: Limo + food (time to consider tuxedos for next celebration😉🥳?).June.1.2023: Our 1st circular DNA paper accepted at Nature. Here is the part 1 of a 2-step celebration.
Jan.12.2023: Hotpot for celebrations (New year + 1 wedding + 1 engagement)!
Oct.31.2022: ZZ-Lab production for the scariest pumpkin!
Sep.15.2022: Celebrating milestones from EVERYONE in our team: 👨👩👧👩❤️💋👨🏡💵📜!July.28.2022: Celebration! Kara secured a competitive funding. And we have paper acceptedat Nature Genetics.
June.11.2022: Our Lauren won the BEST presentation award from UPGG retreat!A truly engaging and stylish talk!
May.20.2022: Our first in-person PCB retreat since pandemic (Weijia rocked the house!).
Apr.22.2022: Our Kara passed her prelim (a superb job from a rising star!).
Apr.15.2022: It’s time to welcome a new member joining our family: Shun! He already taught us a lot in the past 2 weeks.
Mar.2022: Honored and humbled that our lab is the very first one supported by Duke DST (Challenge Accepted)!
Jan.6.2022: New year celebration! Many thanks to Omicron, you have to imagine our smiling face.
Nov.30.2021: Lauren passed her prelim!! Next step is from Ph.D. candidate to Ph.D..
Sept.16.2021: Congrats to our Oliver on passing his prelim!! Amilestone in his long career ahead…
July. 2021: In the spirit of Olympics
Jun.15.2021: Great to see our research work/style is recognized.
Jun.12.2021: Today, we take off our masks and officially welcome Kara (from DSCB/UPGG program) to our family!
Apr. 23.2021: The 3rd Postdoc came to our family; the 3rd PI from our family. Here we are introducing Prof. Lu Wang 👊!
Jan.7.2021:To celebrate the new year, we figured out who among us is the best at deceiving others.
Aug.14.2020: Today, we officially welcome our 4 new teammates: Lauren, Oliver, Scott, and Weijia! Our family just doubled.
Apr.29.2020: Today, the cofounders of ZZ Lab @ Duke formulated our LAB MISSION STATEMENT! We also reestablished our 5 research rules👊✊!
Apr.1.2020: Preceding our writing class, ZZ’s prank on April Fools’ Day worked really well.
Mar.30.2020: During this lab shutdown time (due to COVID-19), we are taking Gopen Writing Class online together. By doing this, we (1) hold hands together as a family & (2) invest on a skill that can be lifelong beneficial.
Dec.20.2019: holiday celebration. We love each other during lunch, and then shoot each other with fun in the VR world.
Oct.31.2019: the first prize for ZZ Lab @Duke: the Great Pumpkin Award👊💪👊💪!
Oct.1.2019: our 1st Nanopore sequencing run @ Duke. And the heroes who made this happen!
Aug. 12, 2019: the (re)-birth of ZZ Lab @ Duke University School of Medicine, the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
July 2019: the first 2 PostDocs (DK and Sungjin) from ZZ Lab have officially taken their amazing job offer! Happy to transform them from Dr. Dou/Moon to Professor Dou/Moon❤️!
July 2019: the last lab meeting at Carnegie. For sure will miss these smiling faces!
Oct. 2018: you know what, we feel we are much better at pipetting!
Oct. 2018: the 1st ZZ Lab bowling tournament, we should be more creative on names.
Oct. 2018: in ZZ Lab, we believe “elegance is a style”!
July 2018: our research is covered by “POPULAR SCIENCE” (we never thought our science would be popular anyway).
Apr. 2018: Sungjin talks about transposons to our departmental supporting staff and makes them all feeling really “jumpy” in their brain.
Feb. 2018: guess who is the new parent 🙂
Sep. 2017: Lu is showing off his skill in front of his wife (Leo is learning, and Sungjin appears to be skeptical).
Mar. 2016: Lunar New Year celebration (we are not only creative at science, but also at dumpling shapes).
Feb. 2016: guess who just turned to 18!
Spring of 2016: we got visitors, the 3-yr-old thinks zebrafish and axolotl are the coolest in the lab, but we clearly disagree.
Mar. 2015: ZZ receives The Larry Sandler Award from the Genetics Society of America and delivers the opening lecture for the 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago.
Nov. 1, 2014: the birth of ZZ Lab @ Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology.
