CCEH Quarterly Newsletter Feb 2026

            February 2026        

            Issue 16
        

Welcome back to our CCEH Quarterly Newsletter!

Seminar Series

Utah CIHD Virtual Seminar Series | 2025-2026

Yale CCEH Seminar Series | 2025-2026

Highlighted CCEH Core

Single Cell Characterization and Procurement Core

Contact the Co-Directors

Lee Grimes, PhD : lee.grimes@cchmc.org
Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD : marie-dominique.filippi@cchmc.org

Services

Single-cell sort and analyses by conventional flow cytometry (up to 18 colors), multispectral flow cytometry (up to 24 colors) and flow imaging
Single cell mRNA expression: providing expertise and technical support on study design, sample preparation, and data analyses and interpretation
Super-resolution confocal imaging: providing expertise and technical support on study design, sample preparation and data analyses and interpretation for single cell analysis in vitro and in bone marrow in situ

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Announcements

Activities

2026 CIHD Student/Postdoc Training and Rising Stars Symposium

University of Utah | March 23 - March 25, 2026

Workshop on Molecular Aspects of Myeloid Stem Cell Development and Leukemia

Cincinnati, OH | May 18 - 21, 2026

Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Fred Hutch Cancer Center | June 22 – August 21, 2026

U24 P&F Funding Opportunities

The NIDDK U24-supported Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) have joined forces to provide novel support mechanisms for junior faculty, postdocs, and trainees who want to pursue new studies in non-malignant hematology. Center Directors welcome applicants from across the US and will strive to provide equal access to the cutting-edge resources and expertise available in their centers.

We are now accepting P&F Type B applications
Due March 16, 2026 (5 PM MST)!

Hot off the Press

Congratulations to the Lee Grimes Lab for their recent publication

A unified multimodal single-cell framework reveals a discrete state model of hematopoiesis in mice

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Congratulations to The Sigala Lab for their recent publication

Chemical propulsion of hemozoin crystal motion in malaria parasites

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Congratulations to The Kapur Lab for their recent publication

Suppression of Rho-associated kinase 1 (ROCK1) promotes human hematopoietic stem cell expansion by attenuating mitochondrial fission

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Featured Faculty

Dr. Phillip Doerfler, PhD

Dr. Doerfler is an Associate Investigator at the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His long-term research goal is to enhance genetic therapies by understanding how genes are regulated and how genomes remain stable. His group focuses on two key areas: the functional genomics of hemoglobin switching, which improves clinical and biological understanding of β-hemoglobinopathies and studying how blood stem cells respond to DNA damage, particularly from genome editing tools like CRISPR-Cas9. This work is crucial for improving the safety and effectiveness of genetic therapies. Dr. Doerfler received a Type A P&F award through the CCEH in 2024 to fund his project investigating long-term genome editing safety in hematopoietic stem cells, utilizing the Fred Hutchinson Cell Procurement Core.