Lab Activities and Pictures

2025

The Chen Lab at the first annual Cold Spring Harbor Immune Engineering and Cellular Immunotherapy conference, organized by Sidi! Featuring keynote speakers Michel Sadelain (Columbia Institute for Cell Engineering and Therapy), Arlene Sharpe (Harvard Medical School), and Hongbo Chi (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital).

Zane’s farewell: Lunch at KPOT, October 10, 2025

Ariel farewell party: Lunch in South Bay, April 11, 2025

2024

Chen lab outing: Lunch in Taste of China and bowling event, June 28, 2024

Lab clean up day after solar eclipse! Apr 9, 2024

2023

Farewell party for Meizhu. Best wishes to her new adventure at Astrazeneca! March 11, 2024.

Lab celebrating New Year with nice food in Taste of China! Feburary 9, 2024

Farewell party & lab meeting for Xinyu and Alina. December 15, 2023

Lab retreat at Ragged Mountain Memorial Preserve! Nice fall views and food at Seoul BBQ! November 4, 2023

Lab fun pickleball/tennis event! Surprised by the amazing “light food” after the event. The already fantastic food at September in Bangkok tastes even yummier after a lot of excise. August 11, 2023

Farewell party for two professors Dai at Kpot! Wish Xiaoyun and Wenlong all the best in their future work and life! Summer 2023.

Everyone enjoys the summer BBQ at the farewell party for Xiaoyun in Lighthouse Point Park! Our best wishes to Xiaoyun for her new chapter of life! May, 2023

Great Friday night mentoring session from the lab OG, first graduate student Matt! Spring 2023

Congratulations to Medha for her successful Master thesis defence! April 28, 2023

MD PhD farewell party at Lau SiChuan restaurant! The restaurant chef has had a busy night thanks to 35 hungry customers from Chen lab. Ping, “Give me five more Peking Duck”. April 21, 2023

Chen lab enjoys the fun and social vibe of pickleball. Tournament gold medal(s) goes to Sidi, Kaiyuan, Ping, Xinyu and Emily! April 14 2023

Farewell party for Kazu, who will embark a new journey in Japan! You will be missed, Kazu. Thanks Luojia for buying us a fantastic cake! And happy birthdays to Erica, Angie and Luojia! Feb. 24 2023

Lab gather at Taste of China to celebrate Chinese New Year 2023, the year of rabbit! Great to see some new faces and some OGs joining the party! Spring 2023

2022

Chen Lab halloween costume contest and game night. Costume contestants: Xiaoyun (Joker) and Sidi (Killer T cell). The lab enjoyed the werewolf game after having all sorts of food from Lao Sichuan restaurants. Oct. 31, 2022

Social chair Liqun and his associate Luojia took the lab away from maxi preps and AAV purification for a lab retreat at Flushing, NY. Following heated scientific discussions, lab enjoyed Chinese Chess tournament (Fig 2 showing Ping bullying Paul, who learned Chinese chess for less than an hour) and Voice of Chen Lab singing competition (data not shown: Liqun and Ping dominate the stage). Fall 2022.

Yale Genetics Retreat 2022, featuring sunshine, beach, and late night Werewolves (board game), all after fantastic scientific talks and discussions of course… Fall 2022

Lab outing @ east beach of Hammonasset Park, Clinton after a big lunch at Taste of China. Farewell to the lab OG Stanley and wish him a lot of offers from medical school application. Welcome the new postdoc, Chuanpeng joining the lab. Summer 2022

Graduate school survival 101–taught by Ryan @ the rooftop of his apartment, while enjoying free Kuro Shiro Ramen from the Department of Genetics. Ryan received a 5/5 on RateMyProfessor. Summer 2022

Lab retreat at Newport, RI. After a day of hiking through the beautiful Cliff Walk, the lab gather in a Japanese restaurant and enjoy some sushi and hibachi. Clearly Ping is the winner in terms of Sake drinking. Spring 2022

Sidi taking a selfie of people listening to the last talk of Paul’s PhD career. Finally an in-person (technically hybrid) thesis defense for the lab. Congrats to Dr. Paul Renauer! Spring 2022
Outdoor farewell party for Lupeng! Amazing weather in Spring 2022
2nd Bay Challenge: Dart. Winner: Bay 5
Farewell to Doctor-to-be Winston! Wish him all the best in the future! Spring 2022
Congrats to the 1st ever Lab Cornhole Winner, Bay1! Spring 2022

2021

Lab hiking trip at Devil’s Den Preserve, celebrating the 6th year anniversary of the Chen lab! Fall 2021.
BBQ at Lighthouse Point Park for Mid-Autumn Festival! Fall 2021
Mentors and mentees in the Chen lab coordinate both experiments and outfits! Summer 2021
Our undergraduates sneak away from their minipreps and T7e1 assays for a July in New Haven dinner at September in Bangkok! Thanks for the invitation guys… Summer 2021
Celebration for our graduating students at Lighthouse Point Park, with lobster by Head Chef Sidi! Congrats to Johanna, Jerry, Stanley, and Viola, and best wishes for their future endeavors! Spring 2021
West Campus Ice Cream Extravaganza! Featuring a badly misfigured SpongeBob and two Big Daddies. Spring 2021
Here we see Jerry and Matt having a moment together, running into the freezing water at Lighthouse Point Park. This bizarre act is allegedly a Yale tradition called the “Polar Plunge.” Word has it that shortly after this photo was taken, they turned right back around and went to lab to do their minipreps. Winter 2021

2020

Sidi demoing his patented 4-Step Method for mouse colony management over an interactive Zoom session. Fall 2020

2019

Our very own Jerry is a cellist in Low Strung, a cello ensemble of Yale undergrads!
Lab at Snow Strung, December 2019
Chris Guzman, newly minted PhD! November 2019
Halloween! Fall 2019
Inaugural lab retreat, in NYC! Fall 2019
Group photo with new Chen Lab swag! Fall 2019
Hot Pot for Mid-Autumn Festival, Fall 2019
Lab at Genetics Retreat, Summer 2019
Lab dinner at Taste of China, Spring 2019

2018

Lab dinner farewell to Dr. Bai and other colleagues, Summer 2018

2017

Lab dinner Summer 2017
Lab meeting at the beach

2016

Lab dinner and farewell to Mike Martinez
Lab functioning and folks working hard!

2015

Sidi started the lab in late 2015.

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