July 31, 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Foege Auditorium
Dissertation Defense:
Conor Camplisson
Beliveau Lab | Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Computational and molecular design of programmable oligonucleotide probes for multiplexed in situ detection”
UW Genome Sciences
Welcome to the Department of Genome Sciences
Our goal is to address leading edge questions in biology and medicine by developing and applying genetic, genomic and computational approaches that take advantage of genomic information now available for humans, model organisms and a host of other species. Our faculty study a broad range of topics, including the genetics of E. coli, yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila, and mouse; human and medical genetics; mathematical, statistical and computer methods for analyzing genomes, and theoretical and evolutionary genetics; and genome-wide studies by such approaches as sequencing, transcriptional and translational analysis, polymorphism detection and identification of protein interactions.
Upcoming Events
August 26, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Foege Auditorium
GS Seminar:
Dr. Conor Herlihy
University of Washington | Beliveau Lab, Schweppe Lab
September 2, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Foege Auditorium
GS Seminar:
Dr. Magdalena Russell
University of Washington | DeWitt Lab
Recent News
June 11, 2026 | News
GS Outstanding Service Award
Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), Ryan Friedman (postdoc)
June 5, 2026 | News
Joe Felsenstein elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences.
May 19, 2026 | News
Hannah Jordt receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Research Highlights
Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish
Syd Sattler is lead author on a publication in bioRxiv, along with other Abitua and Trapnell Lab members.
Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape
Will DeWitt is lead author in a paper in Cell.
A global map for introgressed structural variation and selection in humans
PingHsun Hsieh, David Porubsky, and other current and former Eichler Lab members are authors on publication in Science.
Image-based, pooled phenotyping reveals multidimensional, disease-specific variant effects
Sriram Pendyala is lead author on a publication in Cell.
Recurrent mutations drive rapid HIV escape from two broadly neutralizing antibodies in vivo
Elena Romero is lead author on a publication in PNAS.
Genetic diversity and regulatory features of human-specific NOTCH2NL duplications
Taylor Real is lead author, along with other Eichler and Stergachis Lab members, on a publication in Cell Genomics.
NeMO Analytics: a compendium of transcriptomic data for the exploration of neocortical development
Yash Sonthalia is lead author on a publication in Nature Neuroscience.
Context dependency is essential for predicting intrahost evolution
Alison Feder and Will DeWitt are authors on a comment in Nature Ecology & Evolution.