
Will Chen
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Will Chen
@wchenomics
@DamonRunyon Fellow at Baker lab @UWproteindesign. PhD with @JShendure. mainly at https://t.co/WpSk6RTizP


Thrilled to share I’ve started my lab at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine! We focus on mapping cellular trajectories & TF networks in development and Mendelian disorders, exploring new therapies. Join us—postdocs, grads, and scientists welcome! sites.dartmouth.edu/qiulab/










I'm thrilled to share our work from @JswLab (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). We developed LOCL-TL, an optogenetic approach for monitoring localized translation in mammalian cells. LOCL-TL revealed two mechanistically distinct strategies for mitochondrially localized translation.


1/14 On behalf of the amazing team in @JswLab, we’re excited to share PEtracer (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) a prime editing-based evolving lineage recorder compatible with both scRNA-seq and high-resolution imaging readouts in intact tissue. By applying PEtracer in a syngeneic mouse model of lung metastasis, we dissect how cell-intrinsic and environmental factors coordinately shape tumor evolution in vivo.

Molecular circuits for genomic recording of cellular events dlvr.it/TKcVLr

I’m delighted to share our work on scrambling the human genome using prime editing, repetitive elements, and recombinases @ScienceMagazine! @ferreira_raph_ @LeopoldParts @ProfTomEllis, @geochurch @SangerInstitute science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Lots of changes from the preprint. A🧵

Now out in @ScienceMagazine we present 'Genome-shuffle-seq': a method to shuffle mammalian genomes and characterize the impact of structural variants (SVs) with single-cell resolution in one experiment. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…


What if 1 million scRNA-seq libraries can be prepared within $1k? Here we go 👉 21 million cells from 623 mouse tissues, spanning 5 life stages & 3 genotypes, all in a SINGLE study by ONE remarkable student Zehao @Tommyz626 from our lab @RockefellerUniv! shorturl.at/epsz7


The lives of cells, recorded go.nature.com/4g2gRwG #Perspective by @AskaryLab, Wei Chen, @_Choi_Junhong, Lucia Y. Du, @ElowitzLab, @james_gagnon, @schierlab, @sophieseid, @JShendure, @TanjaStadler_CH & @tranmartink

Excited to announce our new #proteindesign strategy for allosterically controlling the kinetics of protein-protein interactions! Read on for cool applications in cytokine signaling, biosensing, and protein circuits. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cute story alert!🧵@Caltech two clueless office mates (@piraner & I) created a tool to control cells with ultrasound. As postdocs (@UCSF & @UWproteindesign), we teamed up again (with @majo__duran & @AdamChazin) to build a tool for engineered cell signaling nature.com/articles/s4158…