The official record…

2026-08: Exciting news that collaborative work with Jayanta Chaudhuri’s lab on how an AID truncation mutant only disrupts IgH class switching but not somatic hyper mutation has been accepted in Cell Reports!

2026-08: Awesome to welcome back to the lab Sanika Kulkarni!

2026-08: Garima gave a great flash talk on HSP90 inhibitor consequences at the ACS Cancer Stem Cell Consortium Retreat in Washington, DC!

2026-07: Welcome, Cindy Trinh Nguyen, to the Frock lab!

2026-06: Garima gave an excellent talk on the state of HDAC inhibition and DSB repair context for the Division floor meeting.

2026-05: Great to welcome back Olivia Santos for another summer of research!

2026-03: Wonderful to have a mini reunion with Fred Alt and several colleagues at the Gordon DNA repair meeting

2026-01: Fortunate contribution to a multi-lab publication all in our Department. Check in out @ Structure!

2026

Summer Top Golf competition with the Lab!

Reunion w/ Ludovic Deriano, Fred Alt, Wei Yang and Pei-Chi Wei

2025-10/11: Exciting collaborative studies with the Deriano lab on Senataxin function during V(D)J recombination and another on Polymerase theta-mediated repair of G1 DSBs in S phase respectively published in Science Signaling and Nature Communications.

2025-08: Big welcome to Sanika Kulkarni for joining the lab!

2025-08: Garima gave an excellent flash talk at the ACS Cancer Stem Cell retreat in Chicago!

2025-06: Farewell to Cheyenne who was dedicated to do research for the long haul in the lab. We have great expectations for you @ UNC!

2025-06: Grateful to have contributed to the work from our neighbors, the Rankin lab. Pub is out now @ JCI Insight!

2025-06: Welcome, Olivia Santos, to the Frock Lab!

2025-05: Birthday celebration for Cheyenne at the birthplace of the internet! Long Le also dropped by this summer to celebrate.

2025-05: Welcome, Faiza Chowdhury, to the Frock Lab!

2025-04: Congratulations to Carrie for deciding to attend Harvard University in the fall! They are fortunate to have your talents!

2025-04: Congratulations to Cheyenne for accepting the offer to join the UNC MD PhD program! Threaded the needle just before the window closed.

2025-03: A big welcome to Garima Chaturvedi with her genome-wide and coding expertise!

2025-01: Cheyenne gave a wonderful presentation for the Division floor meeting!

2025-01: Beginning with an ending - We wish Jinglong well at his new faculty position at SooChow University!

2025

@ Rossotti’s est. in 1852 and the birthplace of the Internet!

2024-12: Cheyenne put together an excellent presentation at Asilomar on his collaborative work to explain defective meiotic recombination!

2024-08: Great Flash talk for Jinglong at the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Cancer Stem Cell Consortium Retreat in Los Angeles!

2024-07: Perfect timing! 3 papers published in 2 weeks (Genes and Development and Nature Communications) thanks to great collaborators. The final one a publication for Jinglong’s deep dive into alternative end joining and DDR collaboration in quiescent cells out in Science Advances!

2024-05: Birthday celebration for Jinglong and Cheyenne!

2024-04: We are excited to have Jinglong’s story on alternative end joining regulation posted on the preprint server!

2024-03: Near the leap day but a GIANT leap forward to publish Jinglong’s DNA-PKcs chromosome translocation story in Nucleic Acids Research. Bravo!

2024-02: So much rain, but what a view!

2024-01: What an honor! Richard’s ACS RSG will be sponsored by the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Stem Cell Consortium.

2024-01: Great job, Jinglong, for presenting a series of forthcoming stories this year at the Stanford Cancer Institute Floor Meeting!

2024

2023-12: Winter holiday rush - Jinglong’s preprint on DNA-PKcs and translocations is out now!

2023-11: Warm welcome to Carrie Truong! She will remotely pick up where Darsh left off.

2023-11: It was a long time coming and well-deserved - Jinglong’s PhD/Postdoc crossover study on Cas9 DSB overhangs was finally published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! Congratulations!!

2023-10: Great job, Jinglong and Cheyenne, for representing the lab at an ACS fundraising event!

2023-09: Glad to have our collaborative work with Pannunzio lab out in Research Square! Fingers crossed for good reviews

2023-09: Congratulations to Paul and colleagues for publishing the FLASH translocation study in Radiotherapy and Oncology! Big thanks to the Radiation Research Foundation for supporting this project!

2023-07: Elvis, the big winner of the Axe throwing competition!

2023-06: Check out Kai’s Sci-5, Episode 1: What are Chromosome Translocations?

2023-05: Welcome, Elvis Lang and Darsh Vithlani (remotely), to the Frock Lab!

2023-04: Congratulations to Richard for becoming an American Cancer Society Research Scholar!

2023-03: Making progress - Check out Paul’s manuscript on FLASH radiotherapy, hypoxia, apoptosis, and chromosome translocations!

2023-02: Excellent presentation by Jinglong for his Stanford Cancer Institute talk!

2023-01: Science in 5 (Sci-5) collaboration with Kai Zheng is in the works…stay tuned!

2023

2022-11: Great work by Jinglong and colleagues for putting together an excellent manuscript!

2022-08/09: Posters, presentations, and meetings, oh my!

2022-07: Welcome, Anushka Edlabadkar, to the Frock lab! The third time’s a charm!

2022-06: Yikes! Campus-wide power outage! Time to get some ice cream…plug freezers into emergency outlets…and go for a hike

2022-06: Welcome, Long Le and Kristin Conner, to the Frock lab!

2022-05: Congrats to Jinglong for getting accepted into the GSB Ignite program! Time to get some interest from Angel investors…

2022-03: Great job, Jinglong, on your SCI seminar presentation!

2022-02: Congratulations to Cheyenne for getting accepted in to the BIO-X summer program! Great way to start off the meiosis collaboration.

2022

The Breakfast Club hike and a renovated Rossotti’s trip with Kristin, Cheyenne, Richard, & Linda

A “Transformative” moment for Cheyenne, Jodie, and Anita.

2021-10: Lots of effort and hard work - Congrats to current and alum lab members for helping with the DNA end joining review now published in Biomolecules.

2021-10: Many updates in the Virtual Alum Happy Hour!

2021-06: Our part in a great collaborative genome therapy study for Sickle Cell Disease led by the Porteus group is now out in Science Translational Medicine.

2021-06: Welcome to the lab Anita Taft, Cheyenne Sadeghi, and Jodie Meng! Jinglong has many experiments planned for you all to do…

2021-06: Social status upgrade - check out tweets from the Frock lab.

2021-06: Wow! Our JoinT-seq paper was highlighted with a Q & A as a publication of the week by Stem Cell Technologies.

2021-06: Congratulations to Paul for nabbing a position at Nucleix! We can’t wait to see what comes next.

2021-05: Just in Time! Our manuscript describing JoinT-seq was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats to Marie and Josefin for developing such a useful tool.

2021-05: A proud farewell to Marie! An integral lab member, we wish her all the best in Europe.

2021-04: Great talk by Jinglong for the Stanford Cancer Institute Radiation Biology Seminar!

2021-02: Brilliant team effort! Our long-awaited DSB repair study in G0/G1-phase is out on bioRxiv.

2021-02: The long and the short of it - farewell to Josefin and Carlos. Exciting opportunities lie ahead for you both!

2021-01: Foothills Park hike. Couldn’t have timed it any better.

2021-01: Well done, Marie! Collaborative paper led by the Gonçalves group is published in Nucleic Acids Research.

2021

2020-10: The return of the Breakfast Club (socially distant)

2020-09: Frock Lab virtual reunion!

2020-04: Throwback Thursdays and the virtual meeting grind

2020-03: Welcome, Carlos Origel to the Frock Lab, and only a week before the COVID-19 shutdown…

2020-01: Great Job, Josefin! Collaborative paper with the the Gonçalves group is published in Nucleic Acids Research.

2020-01: Welcome, Jinglong Wang, to the Frock Lab!

2020-01: The Holiday Party at the Exploratorium was a magnificent adventure!

2020

2019-12: Guess who was delivering gifts for Secret Santa?

2019-11: Congrats to Dr. Frock for becoming a V Scholar from the V Foundation for Cancer Research!

2019-10: Way to go, Paul, for presenting at the Department Retreat at SLAC and then giving a different talk for the Division Floor Meeting the following week!

2019-10: The Frock-Luck cook-off was a resounding success!

2019-09: Welcome, Marie Le Bouteiller, to the Frock Lab!

2019-08: Finn’s summer internship is over but we hope to see him again in the near future! We can’t wait to see what he’ll do next!

2019-08: The first lab member to leave the lab! We wish Micah great success at Augmenta Bioworks!

2019-06: The inaugural Breakfast club to the Stanford Dish was a fast-paced event.

2019-06: Welcome, Paul Barghouth, to the Frock Lab!

2019-06: Welcome, Finn Maniscalco, to the Frock Lab!

2019-06: Grateful for the support in the lab’s first phase, Melissa Wong! Excited to have Meg Fuentes support the next phase of the lab.

2019-05: The Lab hike to Big Basin was a dry success!

2019-05: Micah gave an excellent Floor Meeting presentation!

2019-04: Congrats to Dr. Frock for receiving the Career Development Award from the Radiation Research Foundation.

2019-02: Josefin gave an awesome presentation for the Division Floor Meeting!

2019-01: Great times at the Holiday “Gatsby” Party!

2019

2018-09: Woot! Collaborative paper led by the Weinstock group is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2018-07: Welcome, Josefin Kenrick, to the Frock lab!

2018-03: Welcome, Micah Kelly, to the Frock lab!

2018-03: Dr. Frock was mentioned in The Scientist: New Methods to Detect CRISPR Off-Target Mutations!

2018-01: Dr. Frock was mentioned in a Biotechniques article: CRISPR/Cas9 eliminates chromosomes.

The Frock Lab, est. 2018