DLK1 paper is live in Cancer Cell

A proteogenomic surfaceome study identifies DLK1 as an immunotherapeutic target in neuroblastoma Amber K. Hamilton, Alexander B. Radaoui, Matthew Tsang, Daniel Martinez, Karina L. Conkrite, Khushbu Patel, Simone Sidoli, Alberto Delaidelli, Apexa Modi, Jo Lynne Rokita, Maria V. Lane, Nicholas Hartnett, Raphael D. Lopez, Bo Zhang, Chuwei Zhong, Brian Ennis, Daniel P. Miller, Miguel A. […]

Lab Growth

Diskin Lab growing again! After several successful dissertation defenses, a technician leaving to attend medical school, and much of the team moving to remote work, the on-site lab has been a bit sparse the past couple of years with often just one or two people ever being in Colket on a regular basis. But we’re […]

Congratulations Dr. Shraim!

Diskin Lab hangs another tassle!      On June 5, 2024, Diskin lab was thrilled to present another student for their successful thesis defense. Rawan Shraim joined the lab in July 2020, amidst all the pandemic turmoil and restrictions on personnel sharing space. She came to us through a unique program at Drexel University School of Biomedical […]

AutoGVP

AutoGVP: a dockerized workflow integrating ClinVar and InterVar germline sequence variant classification Summary: With the increasing rates of exome and whole genome sequencing, the ability to classify large sets of germline sequencing variants using up-to-date American College of Medical Genetics-Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG-AMP) criteria is crucial. Here, we present Automated Germline Variant Pathogenicity (AutoGVP), a […]

Dr. Diskin is now Director of the Computational Biology Core for the CCCR

The Center for Childhood Cancer Research has now named the Computational Biology Core with Dr. Diskin as the Director. The rest of the core consists of: Dr. Alvin Farrel, Assistant Director Rebecca Kaufman, Bioinformatics Scientist II Dr. Evan Cresswell-Clay, Bioinformatics Scientist II Kushbu Patel, Bioinformatics Scientist II Dr. Rawan Shraim, Bioinformatics Scientist II Pamela Mishra, […]

Congratulations Dr. Egolf!

  April 6, 2022 brought another successful thesis dissertation in Diskin Lab. Congratulations to Dr. Laura Egolf on the successful defense of her thesis work titled Defining the Landscape of Rare Inherited and de novo Germline Structural Variation in Neuroblastoma. This is the culmination of several years’ work and we’re so thrilled! It was lovely to […]

Congratulations, Dr. Weiner and Dr. Modi!

Dr. Diskin is promoted!

Transitions

As things are ever-changing here at CHOP and in the CCCR, so too in the Diskin Lab. Dr. Diskin is overseeing the newly formed Center for Childhood Cancer Research Bioinformatics Core, a resource to be used by Cancer Center researchers to help analyze data sets. This is a collaborative effort between CCCR and the Department […]

Two new papers go live on the same day!