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.
July 22, 2026 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Cascade Room | Register Here
Public Lecture:
University of Washington
Dr. Samuel Wasser presents on the use of genetics to combat transnational environmental crime, with a primary focus on illegal trade in African elephant ivory.
July 31, 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Foege Auditorium
Dissertation Defense:
Beliveau Lab | Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
September 30, 2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Foege Auditorium
GS Seminar:
Colorado State University
COGS-invited speaker
June 11, 2026 | News
Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), Ryan Friedman (postdoc)
June 5, 2026 | News
The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences.
May 19, 2026 | News
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.