April 2008 |
Dr. Peter Byers receives March of Dimes lifetime achievement award
(link to University Week article) |
The 2008 incoming class is selected:
Keisha Carlson, Brown University
Katrina Claw, Arizona State University
Jarrett Egertson, UCLA
Leslie Emery, Alfred University
Jacob Kitzman, MIT
Matt Maurano, UC Berkeley
Melody Rynerson, Lewis & Clark College
Sean Schneider, University of Washington
Peter Sudmant, University of Waterloo
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The department presents the 7th annual Genome Sciences Symposium: The Personal Genome: Implications for Medicine, and an accompanying community panel discussion, The Personal Genome: Consequences for Society |
March 2008 |
UW Study Finds Surprising Genetic Causes of Schizophrenia
(link to Seattle Post-Intelligencer article) |
February 2008 |
Do you know what you're breathing at 30,000 feet?
The Furlong Lab makes an important discovery that may identify a mystery illness that strikes passengers and crew on commercial airliners.
(link to KING 5 website) |
January 2008 |
Study Links Autism and Genetic Mutations
(link to University Week article) |
October 2007 |
 Dr. Phil Green has been selected as 2007 UW Medicine Inventor of the Year
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 Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos and other UW researchers play major role in next phase of Human Genome Project |
September 2007 |
 Dr. Marshall Horwitz receives NIH Pioneer Award
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 The 2007 Department Retreat featured keynote speaker Dr. Roy Vagelos. Parker Travel Award winners for best poster were Sara Di Rienzi and Geoff Findlay. |
August 2007 |
 "Eukaryotes - Small to Large: Genome Evolution, Cell Biology & Molecular Medicine", a symposium honoring Dr. Benjamin Hall, was held August 23 & 24
Symposium Schedule
Symposium Poster |
July 2007 |
 The department presents the "Wednesday Evenings at the Genome" public lecture series
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 Dr. Maynard Olson has been awarded the Gruber Prize in genetics
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June 2007 |
UW researchers play leading role in major study of human genome function
(link to UW News article)
 The Genome Training Grant sponsors the Third Annual Genome Training Grant Symposium, "Evolution of the Mitochondrial Genome".
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May 2007 |
UW Dept of Genome Sciences & Dept of Microbiology top their fields in new rankings by Academic Analytics
UW ranked in top ten in Genetics / Genomics / Bioinformatics graduate programs by US News & World Report. |
April 2007 |
Genome Sciences welcomes three new faculty members: |
 Dr. Maitreya Dunham comes to Genome Sciences from Princeton University, where she is currently a Lewis-Sigler Fellow. Her lab studies genome evolution and genetic networks in yeasts using experimental evolution and genomic tools.
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 Dr. Christine Queitsch comes to Genome Sciences from the FAS Center of Systems Biology at Harvard University where she completed a Bauer Fellowship. Her research seeks to characterize molecular mechanisms that govern phenotypic robustness and that can rapidly generate selectable phenotypic variation in a multicellular organism. |
 Dr. Jay Shendure comes to Genome Sciences from Harvard Medical School where he completed his PhD and will soon complete his MD. His research interests include the development of new technologies for DNA sequencing and their application to study genomic variation in humans. |
 The Department presents the 6th Annual Genome Sciences Symposium: "Pests, Plagues and Plants: Genomics and Global Health" |
UW scientists advance macaque genome research
(link to University Week article)
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The 2007 incoming class is selected:
Renee George, University of Washington
Sayer Herin, University of Chicago
Andy Itsara, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Ray Malfavon-Borja, California State University, San Marcos
Sarah Ng, University of Wisconsin
Alex Nord, Carleton College
Rupali Patwardhan, Indiana University
Caitlin Rippey, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Daniel Skelly, University of Wisconsin
Cailyn Spurrell, University of California, Berkeley |
 GS graduate student Zhaoshi Jiang has been awarded a 2006 China National Award for Outstanding Overseas Students. His research in the Eichler Lab is focused on understanding the evolution of human segmental duplications.
The National Award for Outstanding Overseas Students has been awarded by the Chinese Government since 2003. There were 75 award winners among all Chinese students in United States, including 3 from the UW.
(link to University Week article)
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 Dr. David R. Stadler (1925 - 2007), Professor of Genome Sciences |
March 2007 |
 Dr. Gail Jarvik has been appointed the new head of the UW Department of Medicine's Division of Medical Genetics
(link to University Week article) |
November 2006 |
 Dr. Mary-Claire King is awarded the American Cancer Society's highest honor, the Medal of Honor. The society gives the award annually to five Americans who have made outstanding contributions to fighting cancer. |
October 2006 |
| Dr. Andrew Sharp of the Eichler Lab is awarded the 2006 Postdoctoral Basic Research Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. |
September 2006 |
| The 2006 Department Retreat features keynote speaker Dr. William Foege. Parker Travel Award winners for best poster are Allyson McCormick and Dr. Marissa Vignalli. |
June 2006 |
 The Genome Training Grant sponsors the Second Annual Genome Training Grant Symposium, "The Genomic Basis of Evolution: Speciation, Disease Resistance & Neurodevelopment". |
May 2006 |
 The department presents the Fifth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium: "Insights From Model Organisms" |
April 2006 |
 Dr. David Baker is elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. |
| Dr. Mary-Claire King is awarded the 2006 A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine. |
The 2006 Incoming Class is selected:
Lisa Beutler, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Daniel Blick, University of Texas
Nick Coley, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Sara Di Rienzi, Bryn Mawr College
Ryan Emerson, University of Washington
Chris Murphy, Washington University
Kevin Roach, University of Washington
Alan Rubin, Pacific University
Oliver Serang, North Carolina State University
Kyle Siebenthall, Cornell University |
March 2006 |
 The William H. Foege Building dedication, featuring remarks by William Foege, Bill Gates, and former president Jimmy Carter took place on March 8, at 3:00 p.m. |
December 2005 |
 A good time is had by all at the Genome Sciences holiday party. Follow this link for photos. |
November 2005 |
 Dr. Joseph Felsenstein is awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh. |
September 2005 |
| Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos joins the department. |
August 2005 |
| Dr. Ephrat Levy Lahad, Associate Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is on sabbatical in the King lab this fall and winter. Ephrat was a Fellow in Medical Genetics at UW between 1992-1996, during which she cloned the Alzheimer's disease gene presenilin 2 (Levy Lahad et al Science 269: 973-977, 1995). Ephrat continues her work with Alzheimer's disease, as well as investigations of the genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2, and the development of pre-implantation diagnosis for inherited disease. |
June 2005
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 Dr. Robert Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences and the William Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the 2005 Genetics Prize of the Gruber Foundation, to be presented in October at the meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Salt Lake City . Dr. Waterston was selected for his many accomplishments, including his pivotal role in the Human Genome Project.
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 Research by Dr. Mark Rieder and the Nickerson Lab suggesting patients may respond to a widely prescribed anti-blood clotting drug differently because of newly identified genetic variations is featured in the New York Times.
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May 2005
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Dr. Mary-Claire King is elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Dr. King is the American Cancer Society Research Professor in the departments of Medicine and Genome Sciences. Her research interests include breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, and systemic lupus erythematosus. |
 The Department presents the Fourth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium, "Comparative Genomic Analysis". |
April 2005
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 Dr. Evan Eichler is selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Dr. Eichler, a pioneer in the study of rapidly evolving portions of the genome, continues to study the organization, origin, and impact of recent segmental duplications within mammalian genomes. His selection brings the total number of HHMI investigators at the UW to 13, including Genome Sciences affiliated faculty members David Baker, Stan Fields, Phil Green, and Richard Palmiter.
The HHMI is the nation's largest private source of support for biomedical research and science education, with an annual research budget of approximately $400 million. The institute periodically selects new members from among the nation’s top researchers in the ascending phase of their careers. |
 The Genome Training Grant sponsors the first GTG Symposium: Genome Evolution.
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The 2005 Incoming Class is selected:
- Max Boeck, Reed College
- Diane Dickel, University of Chicago
- Geoff Findlay, Carleton College
- Marianna Ivanov, University of California, Berkeley
- Jeff Kidd, Case Western Reserve University
- Kristen Lewis, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Graham McVicker, University of British Columbia
- Richard Meraz, California State University, Long Beach
- Tom Nicholas, University of Utah
- Stephen Salipante, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
- Matt Sandel, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
- Rori Rohlfs, Carnegie-Mellon University
- James Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Troy Zerr, University of Washington
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September 2004
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 Dr. Joshua Akey joins the Department.
Well-known in the fields of population genetics and molecular evolution, Dr. Akey has research interests that include understanding how evolutionary forces shape patterns of genetic variation within and between species and how to use this information to address fundamental questions in biology and evolution. His lab currently pursues projects in human population genomics, the genetic architecture of complex and quantitative traits using yeast as a model system, and canine evolution.
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A symposium to celebrate the career of Dr. Walton L. Fangman, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Genome Sciences, and his contributions to our understanding of DNA replication was held on September 3, 2004. Speakers and participants included past and present members of his laboratory.
Walt joined the Department of Genetics at the University of Washington in 1967. Originally interested in the initiation of DNA synthesis at the single origin of replication in prokaryotic chromosomes, Walt was quickly seduced by the small size of the budding yeast genome with its high density of replication origins. It is in this arena that Walt has spent most of his career, exploring the temporal program of chromosomal DNA replication and essentially creating the field along the way.
Besides serving as Chairman of the Department of Genetics (1985-1990), Walt has also served two stints as the Principal Investigator on the NIH Genetics Training Grant. Walt has been a Professor Emeritus at UW since 2000 and retired from active University life at the end of 2004. |
Past News Items 2001 - 2004
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