News – Page 34 – UW Genome Sciences

Shreeram Akilesh, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Stamatoyannopoulos lab and Instructor of Pathology, is a recipient of a 2013 Damon Runyon Fellowship, one of only two given nationwide for physician-scientists

NSF Fellowship Awards

GS grads Rachel Gittelman (Akey Lab), Vanessa Gray (Fowler Lab), and Alex Mason (Queitsch Lab) have been awarded NSF fellowships. Elyse Hope, Rob Lawrence, and Max Libbrecht received honorable mention.

GS grad Daniel Kim has been awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from NIMH

Dr. Megan Dennis has been awarded a K99 postdoctoral fellowship from NINDS

Dr. Harmit Malik has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The Genome Sciences IT team has received the UW Distinguished Staff Award for a Team

UW Distinguished Staff Award

GS grad Katrina Claw (Swanson Lab) has been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship

Bonderman Travel Fellowship

Introducing the incoming graduate class of 2013

Introducing the incoming graduate class of 2013:
Melissa Chiasson, Yale University
Anne Clark, Harvey Mudd College
Mike Doud, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Tim Durham, Williams College
Alexander Eng, Harvey Mudd College
Seungsoo Kim, Harvard University
Colin McNally, Princeton University
Cecilia Noecker, St Olaf College
Vijay Ramani, Princeton University

GS postdoc Celia Payen (Dunham Lab) has been awarded Honorable Mention for the Postdoctoral Mentoring Award given by the UW Graduate School

2013 Student Research Showcase

MCB grad Nate Peters (Berg Lab) has been awarded second place in the graduate division, Cell and Molecular Biology, of the2013 Student Research Showcase organized by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. He was also awarded first place in the 2013 Northwest Developmental Biology poster competition.