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“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...” (The Shining, reference). One needs to get out of the lab to be fulfilled and stimulate creativity. And remember to take pictures. Activities include lab lunches to celebrate accepted papers, funded grants, and to celebrate people moving off to the next phase of their careers. Great restaurants abound in Houston and the celebrant gets their pick (within a budget of course). Activities also include celebrations of birthdays, showers, holidays as well as lab outings.

Andrew's lab lunch farewell

Lab celebration for Larissa's NIH F32 grant

Match Day, Matt matched to his first choice

Matt's lab lunch to celebrate his paper and MDPhD graduation

The best gifts of all at Larissa's baby shower

Andrew's farewell karaoke before leaving to get his M.D. Ph.D.

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2024: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Getting out of the lab at BCM

On a boba tea run

Rong-Chi, Janel and Sara at the Eukaryotic mRNA Processing Cold Spring Harbor meeting

Celebration lab lunch for Rong-Chi and Janel each being awarded a grant

Rong-Chi, Larissa and Tom at the 2023 DM Young investigator meeting (upstate NY)

2023 Holiday Party at Tom's home

Lab lunch celebration for Janel's paper

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2023: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation GRC meeting

Swim party for Ashish's farewell

Halloween party

Matt's post-PhD defense celebration

Latest lab lunch celebrating Larissa Nitschke’s postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation

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2022: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Cooper Lab Cooper Lab members in front of the Alkek Fountain at Baylor College of Medicine, October 2021.

Cooper lab annual holiday celebration with food, games and a white elephant give exchange.

A group project on the whiteboard in the Cooper Lab breakroom.

Halloween 2021; could it be that some people aren’t in costume?

Yet another celebratory lunch, this one for Matthew Penna's F31 award.

Cooper Lab group lunch celebrating Ashish Rao's paper.

Lab lunch celebrating Sara Johnson's paper while being COVID safe.

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2021: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Paint night! This was pre-COVID; remember those days?

B-day cakes for Sara and Ashish! Overlapping birthdays means two cakes.

Another paper, another celebration Celebrating Diana’s first paper.

Social distancing is easy in the wide open space of Texas!

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2020: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Cooper Lab members in front of the Alkek Fountain at Baylor College of Medicine, October 2019.

2019 Holiday Party: The Cooper lab members enjoyed good food, games and a white elephant gift exchange.

Farewell lunch for Riya Thomas as she is off to grad school. Congratulations and please come back to visit.

A farwell lunch to celebrate Paul Pang's accomplishments and bon voyage to Stanford.

Members of the Cooper Lab participated in the 2019 Houston MDA Walk.

Our lab team MDA Walk t-shihrt was designed by Rong-Chi.

House Party and Lab party at Tom's house to wish Jen and Ginny well and welcome Matt and Sara, May 2019

Lab Lunch and celebrating funding of Tom's.

Escape From The Lab. The lab members out and about.

Escaped Again! It's not that we only go out to eat; it's the only time we take pictures.

Diana, Paul, Ashish and Tom at IDMC12 in Sweden.

Diana and Paul signed up for the 3MT Three Minute Thesis competition sponsored by Queensland University. Diana won first place in the BCM competition.

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2019: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Somehow the Cooper lab pulled off this huge surprise reunion! More than 30 participants from all over (even Taiwan), 11 talks from former students and postdocs, videos and letters from many more - it was overwhelmingly fantastic.

Another surprise! A party at the Cooper’s house after the reunion symposium.

Cooper lab members celebrating at the reunion celebration.

Notice the “TC” in the “30”. Dr. Cooper says he must have been in his 20’s when he started his lab. Uh huh.

See you all soon, at meetings and in the journals.

A time to reflect. 30 years of the Cooper lab. Okay now back to work!

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View a gallery of photos from the Cooper Lab 30 Year Reunion.

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Cooper Lab members in front of the Alkek Fountain at Baylor College of Medicine, February 2018.

2018 Holiday Party: a skeleton crew over the holidays but we know how to party!

Lab Lunch Cooper lab members had a lunch outing to celebrate Ravi Singh's Cell Reports paper.

Lab Lunch The Cooper lab lunch and celebration of the publication of Ginny Morriss' paper.

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2018: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Another lab celebration, published paper or funded grant; don’t remember!

2017 Holiday White Elephant Party: Maybe everyone got what they wanted, maybe not!

We escaped with less than one minute remaining. Team work did the trick.

Dinner after the escape room.

Ginny Morriss’ baby shower: It’s a competition. The winning group gets to baby sit (just kidding).

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2017: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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The Cooper Lab on the Alkek Fountain at Baylor College of Medicine, 2016.

Kassie Manning and Amy Brinegar won poster awards at the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2016 Holiday White Elephant Party: showing off gifts (some stolen more than once).

Celebrating another paper, September 2016.

It’s better when only two people play chess.

Lab lunch celebrating Ginny Morriss’ grant being funded.

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2016: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Members of the Cooper Lab in front of the Alkek Fountain at Baylor College of Medicine.

A lunch outing celebrating Ravi Singh’s Mol and Cell paper.

Cooper Lab group picture from early 2015.

On the Seine at the International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium Meeting in Paris.

2015 Holiday White Elephant Party: Picture taken using Anha’s new selfie stick.

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2015: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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Cooper Lab members in front of Alkek Fountain, 2014.

Setting up for the lab 2014 holiday white elephant party.

Lab Reunion: Lunch for Cooper lab alumni and current members at the Gordon Research Conference, 2014.

Winners of the Halloween door contest and pizza for the lab

A nod to Abby Road in front of the Alkek Fountain.

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2014: View a gallery of our lab activities.

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