Upcoming Events
Wednesday, August 21
Genome Sciences Seminar: Dr. Michael Dorrity
"Control of temperature sensing in yeast cells and developing embryos"
3:30, Foege Auditorium
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Friday, September 6
Dissertation Defense: Jonathan Packer (Trapnell Lab, Waterston Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“A molecular atlas of C. elegans development at single cell and single lineage resolution”
1:00, Foege Auditorium
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2019-2020 Genome Sciences Seminar Schedule
Seminar video from the Sandler Symposium is now available.
For a complete listing of GS events, please see the events calendar.
New Faculty
Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Devin Schweppe has accepted our offer to be an assistant professor and will join our department in 2020. Dr. Schweppe is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Steven Gygi at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schweppe will develop proteomics methods to analyze dynamic cellular signaling networks.
2019 Incoming Class
Introducing the Genome Sciences 2019 incoming graduate class:
Anna Bakhtina, University of Washington
Conor Camplisson, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Phillip Chu, Northwestern University
Madeleine Duran, MIT
Austin Gabel, UW MSTP
Xavi Guitart, Vanderbilt University
Kianna Hales, University of Washington
Morgan Hamm, University of Washington
Lilian Heil, University of North Carolina
Maya Lewinsohn, UW MSTP
Sophie Moggridge, University of Victoria
Sriram Pendyala, UW MSTP
Zorian Thornton, Virginia Tech
Wei Yang, UCLA
Department News
Dr. Kelley Harris has been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences 
In Memoriam: Dr. Benjamin Hall
High school intern Jenna Everard took first place in the Bio Expo, lab research category. Jenna was mentored by Brook Nunn, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, and Andy Lin.
Robin Aguilar, Phoebe Parrish, and Sam Smukowski have been awarded NSF fellowships. Dr. Kelley Harris has been named a Searle Scholar for 2019.Genome Sciences Travel Award winners
In our first application cycle, the Department has funded travel awards to 3 graduate students – Melissa Chiasson, Claudia Espinoza and Colby Samstag – and one postdoc, Jed Carlson. The awards are funded by income to the Department from endowments established by Genome Sciences faculty and are to encourage professional development.
Dr. William Noble has received the 2019 ISCB Innovator Award.Dr. Kelley Harris has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.
Dr. Brian Beliveau , Dr. Tera Levin (Malik Lab), and Dr. Alistair Russell (Bloom lab), have been awarded Damon Runyon Dale Frey Awards.
Dr. Jay Shendure has received the 2019 Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Junyue Cao has been awarded the 2018 Verna Chapman Young Scientist Award from the International Mammalian Genome Society.Dr. Jay Shendure has been selected as an AAAS fellow.
Nick Hasle has been awarded an F30 to support his thesis project "Dissecting the role of PTEN in human disease by testing the effects of thousands of variants on multiple cellular phenotypes".
Arvis Sulovari and Bryan Andrews have been awarded the Parker Travel Award for best poster at the department retreat.
An interview with Bob Waterston
Read the article appearing in UW Medicine's The Huddle.
Aaron McKenna, Tychele Turner, and Damien Wilburn have been awarded K99 Career Transition Awards.
Dr. Jesse Bloom has been selected as an HHMI Investigator.
In Memoriam: Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos
Aaron McKenna has received the Graduate School’s 2018 Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Dr. Mary-Claire King has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the Dan David Prize. 
Katherine Xue has received the Crow Early Career Award at the 2018 Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Conference.