Lab News and Announcements

• UMass Chan scientist co-leads study identifying simple rules for folding the genome (October 8, 2025)

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• Job Dekker elected to National Academy of Sciences (June 2, 2022)

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• Job Dekker is elected to the National Academy of Medicine (November 10, 2021)

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• Job Dekker elected to European Molecular Biology Organization (July 13, 2020)

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• Job Dekker received the Novitski Prize from Lynn Cooley (April 12, 2018)

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• Our recent study is covered in Quanta Magazine (February 23, 2018)

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• Job Dekker is the recipient of the 2018 Edward Novitski Prize (February 8, 2018)

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• Here’s how cells rapidly stuff two meters of DNA into microscopic capsules (January 29, 2018)

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• Study answers 100-year-old question about how chromosomes get their distinctive X-shape (January 18, 2018)

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• Packing a Genome, Step-by-Step (January 18, 2018)

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