We study inter-organ communication using blood proteomics, genetic tools, and computational approaches.
We are part of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah
Bosch Lab News
Positions available:
Research technician - Start date: 2027 Late Spring/Early Summer
Support experimental projects using approaches such as Drosophila genetics, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, molecular biology, protein biochemistry, cell culture, imaging, and protein structure analysis.
Contact Justin Bosch to apply
Post-doctoral fellow - Start date: Flexible
Experimental or computational background. See "Research" tab for current projects.
Contact Justin Bosch to apply
The Bosch Lab is awarded a MIRA R35 grant! From the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study inter-organ communication using new technologies. - August '26
Rayne presents at the SLCSE BEES lunch and holding 3D printed protein structures - July '26
Babs presents at the Symposium on AI in Protein Structure, Function, and Discovery at UofUtah - June '26
Saya presents at the Utah Drosophila Symposium - May '26
New Nature Communications paper from Justin on a tissue-secretome in Drosophila. Work done when he was a post-doc in the Perrimon lab - April 2026
Agastya and Justin presenting at the Biomolecular AI interest group - April 2026
Bosch Lab farewell dinner for Agastya. We will miss you, good luck in grad school! - April 2026
Saya, Giulia, and Justin present at Fly Meeting '26 in Chicago - Mar. 2026
Mia presents at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) - Feb. 2026
Congrats to Pedro for winning best poster at the SACNAS NDiSTEM conference! - Nov. 2025
Agastya presents at the DELPHI Symposium - Nov. 2025
Dhruti and Justin present at the Bioscience Symposium - Sept. 2025
Pedro's poster at the University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium - July 2025
Bosch Lab Farewell Dinner - July 2025
We will miss you Carlie, Dhruti, Pedro, and Ingrid!
Justin's manuscript on "tissue secretome" mapping is on bioRxiv! - July 2025
Bosch lab - June '25
Mountain views from our fly room - May 2025
The Cell Imaging Core is a fantastic way to generate data (and art). Confocal microscopy of the Drosophila larval cuticle showing epithelial cells (green), F-actin (red), and nuclei (blue). - May 2025
Justin and Dhruti tour the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and see our lab's new GPU node in-person! Thanks to the Philanthropic Partners Group and our donors for the funding to purchase this critical equipment! - April '25
Justin presenting on our use of AlphaFold to discover inter-organ communication and predict pathogenicity of human variants that affect hormone-receptor binding.
Virtual presentation at the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC) Researcher-Facing Call - March '25
Justin and Carlie presenting at "fly meeting" San Diego - March '25
Bosch lab - Feb '25
Our S2R+ cell growth assay is working! (purple = more cell growth) - credit Dhruti Patel - Dec. '24
Holiday themed bacterial cultures! - Dec. '24
Our first lab funding! "A New AI-based Approach for Disease Diagnosis and Personalized Medicine" - Nov. '24
Carlie's poster at the DELPHI Symposium - Nov. '24
Human Genetics Retreat Oct '24
Our first transfection of cultured Drosophila cells! (S2R+ cells transfected with Actin-GFP.) - credit Dhruti Patel -Thanks to the Murtaugh lab for use of their microscope. Sept. '24
Carlie's poster at the Bioscience Symposium - Sept. '24
Ruben's colored bacteria art - August '24
Edward's poster at the Undergraduate Summer Symposium - August '24
Edward's talk to the GSRM - July '24
Lab lunch June '24
Our first experiment! May '24