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Dr. Barbara Trask among those honored as “Women of Inspiration”

Dr. Judit Villen has received the 2011 Research Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

GS grad Sara Di Rienzi is conducting research in Japan this summer on the microbiome of termites.

Follow her experiences on her blog, “Eating for a Quadrillion“.

GS grad Keolu Fox has received a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship honorable mention ranking.

Researchers Find De Novo Autism Mutations Using Exome Sequencing

Researchers Find De Novo Autism Mutations Using Exome Sequencing
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GS grad Blake Hovde is co-author on paper in Nature, “A synthetic homing endonuclease-based gene drive system in the human malaria mosquito”

Dr. Daniel Gottschling has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Elhanan Borenstein has been selected as a 2011 Sloan Research Fellow and has been appointed as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Introducing the 2011 Incoming Class

Introducing the 2011 incoming class:
Stephanie Battle, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Michael Duyzend, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Rachel Gittelman, University of Pennsylvania
Elyse Hope, Stanford University
Alex Mason, University of New Mexico
Jorgen Nelson, Rice University
Matthew Snyder, University of Michigan
Sonia Ting, National Yang-Ming University

Congratulations to Genome Sciences and affiliated MCB students awarded 2011 NSF Fellowships

Andrew Adey, Shendure Lab
William Edelman, first year rotation student
Caitlin Gamble, Fields Lab
Roie Levy, Borenstein Lab
Alessandra Sullivan, Queitsch Lab
Jeff Vierstra, Stamatoyannopoulos Lab
Jennifer Wagner, first year rotation student

Honorable Mention:
Caitlin Connelly
Adam Gordon
Aaron Miller
Alexander Nuttle