Upcoming Events
Wednesday, October 23
Genome Sciences Seminar: Dr. Tony Capra
"Integrating Genomic and Patient Data to Interpret Human and Neanderthal Genomes"
3:30, Foege Auditorium | flier | talk will be streamed via Zoom
Thursday, October 24
Science in Medicine Lecture: Dr. Kelley Harris
"Tracing the Evolution of Genomic Mutability"
1:00, Foege Auditorium | website
Friday, October 25
Dissertation Defense: Aaron Wolf (Genome Sciences Ph.D., Akey Lab)
"The Distribution of Neanderthal Ancestry Across Populations And Within Genomes"
10:00, Foege Auditorium
| flier
Wednesday, October 30
Genome Sciences Seminar:
Dr. Erik Andersen
"Wild C. elegans: niche specification, natural diversity, and genome evolution"
3:30, Foege Auditorium | flier | talk will be streamed via Zoom
For a complete listing of GS events, please see the events calendar.
Assistant Professor - now accepting applications
group photo - 2019 department retreat
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.
Combined Fund Drive
Facult & staff: Please consider making a donation via the UW Combined Fund Drive.
Department News
Glennis Logsdon has been awarded an NRSA fellowship from the NIH.
Stella Huang and Rebecca Martin have been awarded the Parker Travel Award for best poster at the department retreat.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
Seminar video from the Sandler Symposium is now available.
Ashley Hall has been awarded an NRSA fellowship from the NIH.
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.
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Phenotypic and Genotypic Consequences of CRISPR/Cas9 Editing of the Replication Origins in the rDNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Joe Sanchez and Bonny Brewer are lead authors on a paper in Genetics. -
Human artificial chromosomes that bypass centromeric DNA
Glennis Logsdon is lead author on a paper in Cell. -
Metaproteomics reveal that rapid perturbations in organic matter prioritize functional restructuring over taxonomy in western Arctic Ocean microbiomes
Nunn and Noble Lab members are authors on a paper in Nature's Journal of Microbial Ecology: ISME. -
Calling star alleles with Stargazer in 28 pharmacogenes with whole genome sequences
Steven Lee is lead author on a paper in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. -
A combination of transcription factors mediates inducible interchromosomal contacts
Seungsoo Kim is lead author on a paper in eLife. -
Superovulation alters global DNA methylation in early mouse embryo development
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Enhancer Chromatin and 3D Genome Architecture Changes from Naive to Primed Human Embryonic Stem Cell States
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The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis
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High-throughput identification of dominant negative polypeptides in yeast
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Dynamics of gene expression in single root cells of A. thaliana
Trapnell, Fields, Queitsch, and Cuperus Lab members Ken Jean-Baptiste, Jose McFaline, Cristina Alexandre, Lauren Saunders, Mike Dorrity, and Kerry Bubb are authors on paper in Plant Cell. -
Autophagy accounts for approximately one-third of mitochondrial protein turnover and is protein selective
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Reconciling disparate estimates of viral genetic diversity during human influenza infections
Katherine Xue is lead author on a letter in Nature Genetics resolving the question of how much viral genetic diversity is present in human influenza infections. -
Comprehensive profiling of translation initiation in influenza virus infected cells
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A Genome-wide Framework for Mapping Gene Regulation via Cellular Genetic Screens
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Neurodevelopmental disease genes implicated by de novo mutation and copy number variation morbidity
Brad Coe and Madeleine Geisheker are authors on paper in Nature Genetics. -
Characterizing the Major Structural Variant Alleles of the Human Genome
Peter Audano and Arvis Sulovari are lead authors on paper in Cell. -
Long-read sequence and assembly of segmental duplications
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DNA methylation dynamics during embryonic development and postnatal maturation of the mouse auditory sensory epithelium
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Modeling site-specific amino-acid preferences deepens phylogenetic estimates of viral sequence divergence
Grad student Sarah Hilton is first author on paper in Virus Evolution examining how deep mutational scanning experiments can be used to inform phylogenetic estimates of divergence times -
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency promotes protein aggregation through dysregulation of extracellular vesicles
Ruth Thomas and Evvie Vincow are lead authors on paper in PLOS Genetics. -
Lon protease inactivation in Drosophila causes unfolded protein stress and inhibition of mitochondrial translation
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Ancient convergent losses of Paraoxonase 1 yield potential risks for modern marine mammals
Furlong Lab members are authors on paper in Science.
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A Multiplex Homology-Directed DNA Repair Assay Reveals the Impact of More Than 1,000 BRCA1 Missense Substitution Variants on Protein Function
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Accurate classification of BRCA1 variants with saturation genome editing
Former grad Greg Findlay is lead author on paper in Nature.
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Human T cell receptor occurrence patterns encode immune history, genetic background, and receptor specificity
Will DeWitt is lead author on paper in eLife.
