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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

GS grad Katrina Claw (Swanson Lab) has been awarded a 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.

Dr. Mary-Claire King has been awarded the 2013 Paul Ehrlich Prize

Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk

Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk
Research from the Eichler and Shendure Labs makes USA Today’s list of top ten discoveries in 2012

Prenatal genome deciphered from parents’ lab tests

Prenatal genome deciphered from parents’ lab tests
Shendure Lab research makes CNN list of top ten discoveries in 2012