UW Genome Sciences

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.

• An Atlas of Variant Effects to understand the genome at nucleotide resolution
  Fowler and Starita Lab members are authors on paper in Genome Biology.

• Brain proteomic analysis implicates actin filament processes and injury response in resilience to Alzheimer’s disease
  Gennifer Merrihew, Jea Park, Deanna Plubell, and other MacCoss Lab members are authors on paper in Nature Communications.

• A peptide-centric quantitative proteomics dataset for the phenotypic assessment of Alzheimer’s disease
  Gennifer Merrihew, Jea Park, Deanna Plubell, and other MacCoss Lab members are authors on paper in Scientific Data.

• A draft human pangenome reference
  Nature

• Increased mutation and gene conversion within human segmental duplications
  Mitchell Vollger and Philip Dishuck are lead authors on a paper in Nature along with other Department of Genome Sciences members.

• Gaps and complex structurally variant loci in phased genome assemblies
  David Porubsky is lead author on a paper in Genome Research along with former (Mitchell Vollger) and current Eichler Lab members (William Harvey and Allison Rozanski)

• Inversion polymorphism in a complete human genome assembly
  David Porubsky is lead author on a paper in Genome Biology along with Eichler Lab members William Harvey and Allison Rozanski.

• Sampling the proteome by emerging single-molecule and mass spectrometry methods
  MacCoss Lab members are authors on a paper in Nature Methods.

• State-dependent evolutionary models reveal modes of solid tumour growth
  Bedford Lab member Maya Lewinsohn is lead author on a paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, along with other Beford and Feder Lab members.

• Tigerfish designs oligonucleotide-based in situ hybridization probes targeting intervals of highly repetitive DNA at the scale of genomes
  Beliveau Lab and Noble Lab member Robin Aguilar is lead author on a paper in bioRxiv, along with other Beliveau and Noble Lab members.

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