It wouldn’t be a BLM Christmas party without an epic White Elephant gift exchange. This year’s winners- my new Danny Devito pillow and Russell’s fashionable shirt. Love you crazy kids!…

Kaitlyn Calabro successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on October 24th, 2019. Every student stands out for a particular reason. For Kait, it was her height (or lack thereof!), and her incredible work ethic. I knew from the first week of her lab rotation that she had enough elbow grease to…

After an exceptional 5 years as a postdoc in the Boye Lab, Shreyasi decided to get a ‘real job’ at Spark Therapeutics. We are lost without her super sweet voice announcing lab meeting every Friday!  We’ll miss you Shreyasi and wish you all the best in your new endeavor!…

K. Tyler McCullough successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March 25th, 2019! We are excited that Tyler decided to join grad school (aka come to the ‘dark side’), and to conduct his studies in the Boye Lab. For the experience he brought with him, he was the program’s first ‘fast-track’…

Congratulations to Sean Crosson, Ph.D., Kaitlyn Calabro, and Russell Mellen for giving outstanding presentations at this year’s ASGCT meeting in Washington D.C.! Along with Dr. Boye, they rounded out 4 oral presentations at this year’s conference. Dr. Boye discussed her team’s efforts to develop novel AAV capsids that exhibit…

As if loving what you do for a living wasn’t enough, today I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from a grateful patient all the way in Denmark. Thank you so much to Klaus and little Rasmus for this incredibly generous and unexpected surprise! This happens so infrequently in…

Genome-editing technologies that correct specific mutations represent a transformative new approach for treating genetic disorders. Despite its widespread use in mouse models of disease, and in cell lines, the Boye lab was the first to demonstrate the effects of CRISPR/Cas9 mediated gene editing in somatic cells of non-human primate. Their…

“When you get where you’re goin’, don’t forget turn back around. Help the next one in line. Always stay humble and kind”. These lyrics from Tim McGraw (yes, I like him, so what?!) remind me of Mavis Agbandje-McKenna. She is the queen of AAV… she’s basically the queen of…

Doctoral candidate Kaitlyn Calabro had the pleasure of presenting her work this week at the Retinal Degeneration meeting in Ireland. She summarized her efforts to characterize a novel mouse model of Usher syndrome 1B and the effects of dual AAV-MYO7A vectors in these mice and in macaque. She fits…

Kaitlyn Calabro was recently awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship. The overall goal of Kaitlyn’s proposal, “Exploring MYO7A function in novel mouse models and improving AAV-Dual Vector Gene Therapy for Usher Syndrome 1B” is to generate the necessary preclinical data to initiate…