Upcoming Events
Monday, September 9 through Wednesday, September 11
Department Retreat
Tuesday, September 17
Spatial Biology Meeting
all day | Foege Auditorium
Thursday, September 19
Dissertation Defense: Madeleine Duran | Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Algorithms for differential analysis of cellular composition in single-cell perturbation experiments"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium
| remote viewing option | flier
Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18
Symposium: "AI for Genomics and Proteomics"
Foege Auditorium and Health Sciences D-209
sponsored by Genome Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
New Faculty
Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Saori Sakaue has accepted our offer to join the department as an assistant professor. Dr. Sakaue received her MD/PhD from the University of Tokyo, where she worked on genetic analyses of global biobanks. She conducted postdoctoral research with Soumya Raychaudhuri at Harvard, focusing on developing single-cell genomics tools to understand the role of genetic variants in gene regulation. Her lab will focus on developing and using statistical genetics tools to integrate molecular data for understanding disease mechanisms, ultimately addressing clinical challenges for future patients.
Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. William DeWitt has accepted our offer to join the department as an assistant professor. Dr. DeWitt was a graduate student with Kelley Harris and Frederick Matsen in Genome Sciences and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, and a postdoctoral fellow with Yun Song at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his career, he has tackled computational and theoretical problems in evolutionary dynamics and quantitative immunology. His lab will pursue work in probabilistic and dynamical modeling, statistical inference, and machine learning, all grounded by questions about evolving biological systems.
Department News
Maitreya Dunham Named Chair of the Department of Genome Sciences
Gabby Ferra has been selected as an ASHG Human Genetics Scholar.
Devin Schweppe has been named a Pew Biomedical Scholar.
Elliott Swanson has been awarded a Curci Fellowship.
UW Genome Sciences Hackathon Leads to New Long-Read Sequencing TechnologyGabby Ferra has been awarded the Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship. Introducing the Genome Sciences 2024 incoming class:
Ayomikun Akinrinade - UC Irvine
Carina Biar - Northwestern University
Kyle Brandt - University of Minnesota
Ben Cohen Stillman - UC Davis
Alex Donny - University of Minnesota
Zanny Ham - Hamilton College
Rachael Hu - University of Washington
Lucas Kerr - UW MSTP
Anna Leipertz - UC Berkeley
Carlo Melendez - Western Washington University
Jyoti Rai - University of South Alabama
Yash Sonthalia - Johns Hopkins University
Megan Taylor - University of Washington
Karl Young - Reed College
Conor Kelly and Bo Wen have received NSF Fellowships. Erik Bergstrom and Connor Finkbeiner have received honorable mention.
Candice Young has received the award for best trainee talk at the TAGC 2024 Symposium. 
Brian Beliveau and Devin Schweppe have received a WM Keck grant. This collaboration between the University of Washington and the University of California, Los Angeles, will establish an entirely new approach to enable robust, scalable, and easily accessible methods for single-cell proteomics.More News
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The Department of Genome Sciences is committed to creating an environment that is welcoming and inclusive. Our goal is to foster a place of learning and working where all members can thrive and where diversity is recognized and celebrated. At Genome Sciences, we aim to create supportive spaces for those who are marginalized in higher education or society. To achieve this, we recognize that it is our ongoing responsibility to understand, acknowledge, and challenge systems of privilege and disadvantage in higher education such as those based on race, color, creed, caste, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or socioeconomic status.
Genome Sciences mourns the loss of our colleague, Dr. Deborah Nickerson.
Recent Research Highlights
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Experimental evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for caffeine tolerance alters multidrug resistance and target of rapamycin signaling pathways
Renee Geck is lead author, along with other Dunham Lab members, on an article in G3. -
Best practices for collecting and preserving marine mammal biological samples in the ‘omics era
Emma Timmins-Schiffman is co-author on an article in Marine Mammal Science. -
Removal of Exogenous Stimuli Reveals a Canalization of Circadian Physiology in a Vertically Migrating Copepod
Emma Timmins-Schiffman is lead author on paper in Journal of Proteome Research. -
Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing
Xiaoyi Li is lead author on paper in bioRxiv. -
A single-cell time-lapse of mouse prenatal development from gastrula to birth
Chengxiang Qu is lead author on paper in Nature. -
Single-cell, whole-embryo phenotyping of mammalian developmental disorders
Chengxiang Qu and Xingfan Huang are lead authors on paper in Nature.