New Year’s Card 2025
Another year complete! We’re excited to share our 2026 New Year's card: Super Reilly Lab—celebrating the collaborative quests and sense of discovery that drove our progress. Our lab has been reimagined in pixels, with precision CRISPR tools, scalable MPRA technology, advanced machine learning , and a brilliant team at our disposal. We’re using these tools to try to solve questions at the forefront of human evolution, health, and disease. Scroll through to catch all the puns, players, and bonuses that went into this years card.Thank you to the many players who make our science possible—our collaborators who share expertise and resources, friends who celebrate our victories and support us through setbacks, funders who believe in our vision, and facility staff who keep our research running smoothly. Here's to a 2026 where we all reach new levels of success!
— The Reilly Lab
Erin rides a dolphin into the horizon, shortly after asking it to lend her some of its cells.
Madeline feeds her T cells some ancient DNA.
Julio swings toward his new cells in the tissue culture room.
Capucine maintains her neural progenitor cells by aspirating up all of the old ones.
Thanh Thanh jumps on CRISPR “scissors” to make a precise genomic edit.
Tian wields his extensive coding powers to zap away a bug.
Grace tames MPRAsnakeflow: a pipeline that uses snakemake for MPRA data analysis.
Steve surveys the lab from atop Harkness tower.
The Owl Labs Meeting Camera ominously watches the lab from atop its tree.
Jack launches MPRA lentivirus into the first well of the plate.
Catherine collects a package from Illumina.
DeepSweep: A machine learning model that is used for pinpointing causal adaptive variants amongst hitchhikers.
Our rotation students Susanna Liu and Anna Mikulevica spin around in a vintage centrifuge.
Frank helps us manage our money by collecting some Plasmidsaurus dinocoins.
Mackenzie enables machine learning by teaching convolutional neural networks to his favorite robot, Johnny 5.
Isabel raises the Rod of Asclepius to protect the cell culture from an RNase.
Bones of model organisms we leverage sit beneath the surface, including a zebrafish, a naked mole rat, and the ancient remains of several hominins.
Ovaun enjoys a swim with the cells in some warm thirty-seven degree DMEM.
Jared studies ancient DNA originating from those who lived 15,000 years ago. To get closer to his work, he’s decided to join them.
Bahar wrestles a differentiated neuron back down onto the plate.
