Joung Lab

Please visit the Joung Lab at https://www.jounglab.org/


You can also find us at:
Massachusetts General Hospital
Molecular Pathology Unit
149 13th Street, Room 6133
Charlestown, MA 02129 USA


The Joung Laboratory develops technologies for genome engineering using artificial “designer” DNA-binding domains. We utilize engineered zinc finger, transcription activator-like effector (TALE), andRNA-guided CRISPR/Cas-based systems to direct specific genomic alterations in living cells and organisms. In addition to developing and optimizing these technologies, we are exploring their applications for biological research and gene therapy.

Joung Lab Team

Ravi
Bajpai
Research Techni...
Stacy
Francis
Lab Manager
Tasos
Gogakos
Research Fellow
Keagan
Hesse
Research Techni...
Eliza
Holtz
Research Techni...
Ken
Lam
Research Fellow
Ivy (Thuy)
Nguyen
Research Techni...
Giulia
Oliva
Research Fellow
Sehee
Park
Research Fellow
Ligi
Paul-Pottenplackel
Staff Scientist
Karl
Petri
Research Fellow
Esther
Tak
Research Fellow
Tianduo
Wang
Research Fellow
James Angstman
Graduate Student, Harvard University, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Maggie Bobbin
Nicholas Bonnaig
Peter Cabeceiras
Vincent Cascio
Oliver Cervantes
Rebecca Cottman
Elizabeth Dahlborg
Boston University School of Medicine, Class of 2015
Magdalena Eichtinger
Research Fellow, MGH Neurology
Rui Fang
Sandra Fay-Richard
Intellectual Property and Corporate Counsel at Intelligent Medical Devices
Jennifer Foden
Associate Scientist II, Bluebird Bio
Jonathan Foley
Yanfang Fu
Jason Gehrke
Astrid Giesecke
Scientist, GSK (UK)
Carl Göbel
Mathew Goodwin
Gene Editing Specialist, Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals
Julian Grunewald
Jimmy Guo
Andrew Hirsh
Joy Horng
Jonathan Hsu
Jessica Hurt
Research Fellow, Burge Laboratory, Department of Biology, MIT
Tao Jiang
Edouard Kengni
Consultant, Bioversity International
Cyd Khayter
Benjamin Kleinstiver
Ibrahim Kurt
Samantha Linder
Graduate Student, MGH Cancer Center
Morgan Maeder
Research Scientist, Editas Medicine
Megan McSweeney
Marketing and Commercial Development, Invitae
Nhu Nguyen
Vikram Pattanayak
Michelle Prew
Cherie Ramirez
Deputy Director, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard University
Maureen Regan
Research Specialist, University of Illinois, Chicago
Deepak Reyon
Biogen IDEC
Jeffry Sander
Research Scientist, DuPont Pioneer
Kanae Sasaki
Alexander Sousa
Stacey Thibodeau Beganny
Research Technician, Amherst College
Ved Topkar
Shengdar Tsai
Russell Walton

PI BIO

Dr. Joung’s research interests include understanding how Cys2His2 zinc fingers, the most common domain encoded in the human genome, mediate specific protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions. In addition, Dr. Joung’s lab uses a combination of directed randomization and bacterial cell-based selection methods to engineer artificial “designer” zinc finger domains with desired DNA-binding specificities. The ability to direct functional domains (e.g.—transcriptional regulatory or endonuclease domains) to specific genomic loci using these customized DNA-binding domains will have important applications as tools for biological research and as potential therapeutics for molecular medicine and gene therapy.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1998-2001 Post-doctoral fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Ph.D. in Genetics, Harvard University
1996 M.D., Harvard Medical School
1987 A.B., Biochemical Sciences, Harvard College

POSITIONS
2009-pres Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
2009-pres Associate Chief of Pathology for Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
2008-pres Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
2007-pres. Director, Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
2007-pres. Member, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
2004-2008 Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
2004-pres. Faculty member, Ph.D. program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School
2003-pres. Member, Center for Cancer Research, MGH Cancer Center
2000-2008 Assistant Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
1998-2001 Post-doctoral Fellow, HHMI/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1997 Chief Resident in Clinical Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
1996-1999 Resident in Clinical Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital

HONORS
2011 Appointment as The Jim and Ann Orr MGH Research Scholar
2010 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award recipient
2010 NIH Transformative R01 recipient
2009 Honoree, The One Hundred, MGH Cancer Center
2000-2005 NIH K08 fellowship award
2000 Board Certification in Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
1998-2000 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians
1996 Bernard N. Fields Prize in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (for Ph.D. thesis), Harvard Medical School
1989-1996 Medical Scientist Training Program (M.D.-Ph.D.) appointment, Harvard Medical School
1987 Graduated magna cum laude, Harvard College

Joung Lab Resources

Resources

TALEN Resources:
TALengineering.org
FLASH platform resources
REAL and REAL-Fast platform resources
Joung lab TAL effector reagents at Addgene
TALengineering newsgroup

Zinc Finger Protocols:
Oligomerized Pool ENgineering (OPEN) reagents
ZFN-mediated mutagenesis of zebrafish genes
Modular assembly method for engineering zinc finger arrays
High-throughput beta-galactosidase assay (word.doc)

Zinc Finger Reagents:
Oligomerized Pool ENgineering (OPEN) reagents
Modular assembly engineering reagents
Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) expression vectors
Bacterial two-hybrid system vector maps and sequences (word.doc)

Zinc Finger Software:
ZFNGenome
(genome-scale resource for identifying potential zinc finger nuclease target sites in various organisms, Dobbs laboratory, Iowa State University)
ZiFiT
(Zinc Finger Targeter; web-based software for designing zinc finger arrays using modular design, Dobbs and Voytas labs, Iowa State University)
ZiFDB
(Zinc Finger Database; web-accessible database of zinc fingers and engineered zinc finger arrays, Voytas laboratory, University of Minnesota)

Links:
The Zinc Finger Consortium
Addgene Zinc Finger Consortium webpage
Center for Causal Consequences of Variation
Dr. Carl O. Pabo and Protean Futures LLC