Lab News
October 2023
Maya Contreras joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Maya!
We say goodbye to our fantastic scientist and team leader Amanda. We wish her all the best in her new position and thank her for all her support above and beyond her awesome science work over the past years.
August 2023
We say goodbye to Artem who will starting as a graduate student in the UW MCB program. Good luck in graduate school, we will miss you!
June 2023
We say goodbye to Lucian and look forward to seeing what awesome science he does next.
May 2023
Amanda and Artem’s paper is submitted to bioRxiv. Super proud to see all your hard work and innovative problem solving coming together in this paper about making and applying an awesome new tool to analyze rupture frequency.
Lucian successfully defends his thesis, congrats Dr. DiPeso!
Lucian’s paper is submitted to bioRxiv. Fantastic collaboration with the Fowler lab at UW and hopefully the start of many more years of discoveries.
December 2022
And we’re back at ASCB! Super excited to be here in person this year and great work Artem and Molly on your poster presentations!
November 2022
Jodiene passes her general exam to become a PhD Candidate, Congrats Jodiene!
October 2022
Foiled again! The stunning and scientifically relevant Hatch lab pumpkin creation was beaten to the finish line by other worthy competitors in our BSD/HB community. Congrats to everyone. It was a sight to behold.
November 2021
After much hard work on revisions and resubmissions, Anna, Heather, Emma, and Amanda’s paper is published at Life Science Alliance.
October 2021
Another fantastic entry from the Hatch lab to the virtual pumpkin carving contest. We learned a lot about how hard it is to destroy a pumpkin. Great job everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=68fZMYNfX8
We say goodbye to post doc Anna Mammel. Thanks for all your hard work during a challenging time, for bringing R to the lab, and we wish you all the best in your new position at Neurocode!
June 2021
Jodiene Johnson, an MCB graduate student, joins the lab! Welcome, and time to update the website…
First in person lab meeting in 18 months! No snacks, but some good science discussion.
Jodiene is awarded the Cell and Molecular Biology training grant, Congrats Jodiene!
May 2021
Artem Yaschenko joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Artem!
Anna, Heather, Emma, and Amanda’s paper is submitted to bioRxiv! So excited to see this multi-year project get out to the public. Click here for Anna’s excellent tweet-orial: https://twitter.com/DrMammel/status/1393355411642720258
December 2020
Inaugural Hatch Lab secret santa (one gift, one guess) and gif guessing showdown. The category? One gif that describes the year. https://twitter.com/amandalyngunn/status/1339753887360667649?s=21. Congratulations to our winners, Anna and Jodiene (and everyone on making it through 2020)!
Nov 2020
November 19th: Congratulations, Molly, on passing your general exam!
Oct 2020
October 30th: Our annual pumpkin carving contest entry sums up our feelings about this year. Great job #TeamHatchLab on this multimedia entry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCUg6-LpQM&feature=youtu.be
May 2020
May 21st: Ali Young’s paper accepted for publication at Molecular Biology of the Cell. For a great summary of the work done by Ali and Amanda Gunn, check out Ali’s Science Sketch
January 2020
January 6th: Ali Young’s paper is submitted. The first paper submission and biorXiv preprint for #TeamHatchLab. Thanks Ali and Amanda Gunn for all your hard work.
December 2019
December 3rd: Congratulations, Lucian DiPeso, on passing your general exam!
October 2019
October 25th: Another fantastic Hatch Lab entry for the annual pumpkin carving contest. Another bitter defeat in the face of stiff competition. Will next year finally be our year?!?!?
October 17th: Anna Mammel and Lucian DiPeso are both appointed to Fred Hutch’s Chromosome Metabolism and Cancer Training Program (https://www.fredhutch.org/en/research/education-training/graduate-program/chromosome-metabolism-cancer-training-grant.html). Way to go guys!
September 2019
Molly has been appointed on UW's Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program! Go Molly!
August 2019
Has it been nine weeks already? Congratulations to our interns, Mikayla and Alison, on a fun and productive summer! And to Ali for being a great mentor!
July 2019
Welcome to our new Staff Scientist, Dr. Amanda Gunn and our new Postdoc, Dr. Anna Mammel. We're excited that you're here!
June 2019
Welcome to our new Graduate Research Assistant, Molly Zych, and our two Pathways Undergrad Summer 2019 interns, Mikayla King and Alison Witwer!
February 2019
February 11 | Welcome to our new research technician, Emma Choo!
July 2018
Ali Young is awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) from the National Cancer Institute (NIH).
June 2018
Lucian DiPeso, a new graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, joins the lab
May 2018
Dr. Hatch is a 2018 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Mari Cobb is off on a new scientific adventure in the Kalahari Desert. We will miss you, Mari!
October 2017
Ali Young is awarded a fellowship from the Chromosome Metabolism and Cancer Training Program
August 2017
Ali Young, a new postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Colorado Boulder, joins the lab
July 2017
Dr. Hatch awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (MIRA R35) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
August 2016
Heather Huang, a new research technician, joins the lab
July 2016
Mari Cobb, a new research technician, joins the lab
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