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Dr. Rizzardi aboard NASA’s “vomit comet” 2015

03.01.2024
The Rizzardi Lab welcomes our newest (and FIRST) graduate student, Dev Raj Bhattarai!

01.15.2024
Collaboration with Drs. Rick Myers and Nick Cochran at HudsonAlpha on MAPT regulation published in AJHG!

08.15.2023
Rizzard Lab opens in the Department of Biochemsitry and Molecular Genetics at UAB!

07.18.2023
Dr. Rizzardi presents poster at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.

04.18.2023
Dr. Rizzardi presented data from Cell Genomics paper for the UKDRI Neurogenomics Seminar. Watch here!

03.08.2023
Our work using single cell multiomics (ATAC+Gene Expression) to identify cell type-specific cis regulatory elements in Alzheimer’s disesase is published in Cell Genomics. This work was led by Ashlyn Anderson, MS and Bri Rodgers, PhD (former UAB Graduate Student) with help from many others at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.

02.10.2023
Cell Genomics paper featured in ALZFORUM article. “Single-nuclei multi-omics spots wonky gene regulation” – Chelsea Weidman Burke

Dr. Rizzardi presents single cell multiomics study of Alzheimer’s at AGBT meeting.

07.26.2022
Special Guest on Tiny Expeditions Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3: “When Our Brains Fail Us: an exploration of neurodegenerative diseases”.

04.16.2019
The Naked Scientists Interview with Izzie Clarke – “Identical twins in space”.

04.12.2019
NASA Twins Study published in Science.

08.01.2016
Work on NASA’s “Vomit Comet” tailoring molecular techniques including nanopore sequencing for microgravity featured in Hopkins Medicine magazine.

10.13.2015
News feature on nanopore sequencing in microgravity. “Zero-gravity genomics passes first test.” – Chris Cesare, Nature.

Bri Rogers, L. Rizzardi, Ashlyn Anderson
Halloween 2022