August 2025: Maggie Presents at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium

Maggie delivered an excellent presentation at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, showcasing her project on the EBV virus conducted with Andrew. Despite the short timeframe, she did an outstanding job—congratulations, Maggie!

August 2025: SURI Students Shine at Research Presentations

Our SURI students successfully wrapped up their research presentations with outstanding results. Despite the challenges of their projects, they demonstrated passion, hard work, and delivered excellent talks that received great feedback. Congratulations to Lily, Adhithi, and Sriya—great job!

August 2025: High Schoolers Visit the Fly Core

Daniel and John visited the fly core for a few days to learn about fly work and research. They learned about the power of the Drosophila melanogaster model organism and tissue-specific protein expression before their school years started!

August 2025: High Schoolers Visit the Fly Core

Daniel and John visited the fly core for a few days to learn about fly work and research. They learned about the power of the Drosophila melanogaster model organism and tissue-specific protein expression before their school years started!

July 2025: Welcome Andrew and Maggie to Chung Lab!

Andrew, a recent Rice University graduate, has joined Chung Lab as a research technician. Maggie, currently an undergraduate student at Rice, joined the lab this summer as a student researcher. We are excited to welcome these two passionate and driven individuals to our team!

June 2025: Chung Lab Celebrates Sarita’s Next Chapter

The Chung Lab had a wonderful farewell gathering for Sarita, who has contributed greatly to the lab. We celebrated her last day at a Korean restaurant, enjoying delicious food together while wishing her the very best as she begins medical school. Thank you and good luck, Sarita!

May 2025: Howard Selected for Oral Presentation on CDK19 Research

Howard was invited to give an oral presentation at the 3rd Graduate Neuroscience Symposium, where he presented his work on newly identified CDK19 variants and their pathogenicity. His talk highlighted important clinical and genetic insights into kinase module gene variants. Great job, Howard!

May 2025: Ranjan Presents Research on DDX23 at Graduate Neuroscience Symposium

At the 3rd Graduate Neuroscience Symposium, Ranjan delivered an excellent poster presentation on his project, “Pathogenic gain-of-function variants in DDX23 cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome with microcephaly, motor delay and seizure.” His work highlighted important genetic mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders and was well received by the audience.

March 2025: Tomomi’s Farewell Party

September 2024: UDNI conference

Dr. Chung presented an invited talk at the Undiagnosed Disease Network International conference in Seoul.

September 2024: Howard presentation

Dr. Howard Koh presented a poster on CDK19 in neurologic disorders at the UDNI 2024 conference in Seoul.

August 2024: Aryan’s Presentation

Aryan gave a highly effective poster presentation about his work on CNOT4, demonstrating how Drosophila serves as an effective model for studying rare neurological disorders.

August 2024: Lab celebration

Celebrating Aryan's poster award and the successful summer research of John and Lamha, Chung Lab had a lab lunch outing.

August 2024: ERG Setup

We finally set up two-photon microscopy for electrophysiology in Drosophila, along with an injection scope and a fly food kettle, after a year of long waiting.

June 2024: Main fly core fully functional – part 1

June 2024: Main fly core fully functional – part 2

June 2024: Main fly core fully functional – part3

June 2024: President’s Award for Excellence in Peer-reviewed Publication

Dr. Chung received the President’s Award for excellence in peer-reviewed publication two years in a row!

June 2024: Graham’s family visits the lab

Graham and Sharon had a wonderful time visiting the fly core at HMRI. Graham has been doing so well, and we believe he will continue to be strong in the future.

April 2024: Welcome Dr. Yunseon Yang to Chung Lab!

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Yunseon Yang from Korea to Chung Lab. She joins us as a Sejong Fellow, supported by the prestigious Sejong Fellowship, and brings with her an impressive record of accomplishments. We look forward to her outstanding contributions and future success. Welcome, Yunseon!

April 2024: Lok Chung lab first lab meeting starts

March 2024: Main fly core space setting start

November 2023: Michael, Mary, and Michele visited the lab

Zeiss training for fluorescence scope

September 2023: Michael, Mary, and Michele visited the lab

Michael, Mary, and Michele visited the lab visited HMRI and toured the fly core, having a pleasant conversation about the current progress in Mitchell syndrome research and plans.

September 2023: Excellence in Peer-Reviewed Publications

Dr. Chung received the President’s Award for excellence in peer-reviewed publications.

July 2023: Prestigious Tong H Joh research Innovation Award

Dr. Chung received the Prestigious Tong H Joh research Innovation Award.

June 2023: The first Mitchell Syndrome Summit

Mitchell Syndrome families visited HMRI and toured the fly core, having a pleasant conversation about the current progress in Mitchell syndrome research and plans.

June 2023: Fruit flies entering HMRI for the 1st time

June 2023: Temperature fly core set-up

March 2023: Laboratory setup starts

Slow but steady