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id: "entity-cheeseman-lab-mit"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Cheeseman Lab at MIT"
aliases: ["Cheeseman Lab"]
source_timestamps: ["§ The Human Layer"]
tags: ["research-lab", "academia"]
related: ["entity-iain-cheeseman", "entity-claude"]
canonical_url: "https://cheeseman-lab.mit.edu"
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-ext-17-workplace-set-up-for-agents"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/is-your-workplace-set-up-for-ai-agents"
sourceTitle: "Is Your Workplace Set Up for AI Agents?"
---
# Cheeseman Lab at MIT

A laboratory at MIT led by [[entity-iain-cheeseman|Iain Cheeseman]], focused on cell division and chromosome segregation (high-throughput CRISPR and imaging). In the source it integrated a [[entity-claude-d17|Claude]]-powered agent to analyze CRISPR gene-knockout screening results, identifying RNA-modification pathways that other models missed — the setting for the [[concept-human-role-ownership|ownership]] example. Canonical reference: https://cheeseman-lab.mit.edu (public materials do not yet explicitly document the specific Claude deployment described).