The Department of Genome Sciences is excited to welcome Dr. Cole Trapnell as its newest Assistant Professor. Dr. Trapnell studies stem cells and differentiation, primarily using high throughput transcriptome sequencing. He comes to UW from a postdoc at John Rinn’s lab at Harvard and before that, earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park working with both Steven Salzberg and Lior Pachter.
Grad Joe Sanchez has been awarded first place for his poster “The human Meier-Gorlin Syndrome mutation in ORC4 reduces replication initiation and rDNA copy number in Saccharomyces cerevisiae“, at the Yeast Genetics Meeting of the Genetics Society of America. Drs. Judit Villen, Lea Starita, and Celia Payen, along with grad Jenny Andrie, gave talks during the plenary session.
GS grad Keolu Fox gave a talk, “Indigenomics: Next Generation Blood Typing”, at the symposium: “A Spectrum of Perspectives: Native Peoples and Genetic Research”, cosponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, NHGRI’s Smithsonian exhibit “Genome: Unlocking life’s code”, and the National Congress of American Indians.
Lessons From the Woman Who Discovered the BRCA Cancer Gene
Dr. Mary-Claire King‘s interview with Time magazine