2020

Former Shendure Lab member Dr. Junyue Cao is the grand prize winner of the 2020 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

90 Days on the Front Line: How UW Medicine led the response to the nation’s first COVID-19 outbreak
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Viral genome sequencing places White House COVID-19 outbreak into phylogenetic context

Drs. David Baker, Michael Bamshad, Evan Eichler, Choli Lee, Debbie Nickerson, Bill Noble, Jay Shendure, John Stamatoyannopoulos, and Cole Trapnell have been named on the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate.

Brain and spine fluid proteomics may hold Alzheimer’s clues
UW Medicine

Eliah Overbey has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from NASA.

Introducing the Genome Sciences 2020 incoming class:

Leah Anderson – Ohio State University
Gabrielle Ferra – Brown University
Lincoln Harris – Swarthmore College
Chris Hsu – University of Washington
Aidan Keith – University of Washington
Tony Li – Johns Hopkins University
Chris McGann – Northeastern University
Alexis Neuman – Western Washington University
Luana Paleologu – University of Washington
Taylor Real – UC Santa Cruz
Elena Romero – Harvey Mudd College
Abbey Thorpe – George Washington University
Cassia Wagner – UW MSTP

NIH-funded center to study nucleome in time and space
UW Medicine Newsroom

The 2020 Parker Travel Award winners for best poster at the 2020 department retreat are Pengyao Jiang and Kyle Hess.

Nick Popp has been awarded an NRSA Fellowship

Dr. Devin Schweppe has joined our department.

Former Genome Sciences members Dr. Katrina Claw and Dr. Jie Liu have received 2020 Genomic Innovator Awards from the NHGRI.

Dr. Mary-Claire King and Dr. Peter Byers have received awards from the ASHG

Dr. Junhong Choi has been awarded a Damon Runyan Fellowship.

Danielle Faivre and Deanna Plubell have been awarded NRSA Fellowships

Chengxiang Qiu has been awarded the Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship

Scanning for answers to a pandemic
GatesNotes: A new surveillance program in Seattle is detecting cases of COVID-19 and helping guide public health responses.

250,000 people now follow this Fred Hutch scientist on Twitter
Dr. Trevor Bedford's research is featured in the Seattle Times.

Dr. PingHsun Hsieh has been awarded a K99 Career Transition Award.

Eliza Barkan has been awarded an NSF Fellowship. Conor Camplisson, Luana Paleologu, and Zorian Thornton have received honorable mention.

Coronavirus May Have Spread in U.S. for Weeks, Gene Sequencing Suggests
Dr. Trevor Bedford's research is featured in the NY Times.

Gesine Cauer and Dr. Andrew Savinov have been awarded NRSA fellowships.

GSAIMS has been awarded a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant from the University of Washington and is excited for their new upcoming events.

Dr. Jay Shendure has been named The 2020 Leaders in Health Care Gold Award Winner for Achievement in Medical Research by Seattle Business magazine.

Jimmy Eng has been selected for the 2020 Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award.

Technologies to watch in 2020: Dr. Elhanan Borenstein and former GS grad Dr. Alex Nord are featured in Nature article.

2019

Dr. Harmit Malik and Dr. Ray Monnat have been named AAAS fellows.

Emily Mitchell and Gennifer Merrihew have been awarded lab safety innovation awards from EH&S.

"A lineage-resolved molecular atlas of C. elegans embryogenesis at single-cell resolution", by Jonathan Packer, et al, has been selected as the Editor’s Choice in developmental biology by The Scientist.

Kate Dusenbury and Will DeWitt have been awarded NRSA fellowships from the NIAID.

August 2016

Aaron Seo has been awarded an NRSA individual fellowship.

Graduate student Mike Doud has won the award for the best abstract in virology at the Options for the Control of Influenza meeting.

June 2016

Dr. Stanley Gartler has been awarded the 2016 Victor McKusick Leadership Award from the American Society for Human Genetics.

The very model of a classical geneticist:
See Stan Fields' Genes to Genomes post for a slight twist on The Pirates of Penzance, as performed by Vijay Ramani and Ian Blumenthal.

Dr. Michael MacCoss has been awarded the HUPO 2016 Award for Discovery in Proteomic Sciences for fostering the development of Skyline and its resulting impact within the proteomics community.

Vanessa Gray has been awarded a DeLill Nasser Award from the Genetics Society of America.

April 2016

Ethan Ahler has won best poster at FASEB Cell Signaling in Cancer: From Mechanisms to Therapy.

Dr. Judit Villen has been profiled in Nature Methods.

Steven Lee has been awarded a KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship.

Brewer-Raghuraman Lab undergrad researcher Haley Amemiya has been featured in the Husky 100.

Introducing the Genome Sciences 2016 incoming class:

Gesine Cauer, Haverford College
Andria Ellis, Boston University
Nick Hasle, UW MSTP
Emma Hoppe, Creighton University
Daniel Lawrence, UW MSTP
Fong Shun Lo, Johns Hopkins University
Martin Mathay, Swarthmore College
Anna Minkina, Carleton College
Jared Mohr, Cornell University
Alberto Rivera, Harvard University
Bianca Ruiz, California State University, Fullerton
Ian Smith, Muhlenberg College
Sanjay Srivatsan, UW MSTP
Anthony Valente, Western Washington University
Mitchell Vollger, Princeton University
Chiann-Ling Yeh, New Mexico State University

Dr. Su-In Lee has been awarded a National Science Foundation Career Award.

March 2016

GSA supports symposia organized by student and postdoc members

Dr. Elizabeth Kwan and Dr. Elizabeth Morton have been awarded funding by the Genetics Society of America to organize the "New Investigations into Ribosomal DNA" symposium, to be held August 11, 2016 in Foege Auditorium.

Berg Lab members Liesl Strand (People's Choice Award - best poster from all categories, including postdocs, grads, and undergrads) and Bernice Lin (Second Place Undergraduate poster) received awards at the Northwest Developmental Biology meeting.

Keolu Fox has been selected as a 2016 TED Fellow.
BBC | Wired | Forbes

UW ranked #3 in genetics by US News

Brendan MacLean has been awarded the Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award.

Matthew Snyder has been selected as a recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for outstanding achievement in graduate studies by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

February 2016

Dr. Mary-Claire King to receive National Medal of Science
NSF | UW Health Sciences

Drs. Kate Cook and Adrian Verster have been awarded NSERC postdoctoral fellowships.

The UW SACNAS chapter has received the UW School of Medicine 2016 Martin Luther King Community Service Award.

January 2016

2015 Highly Cited Researchers list from Thomson Reuters includes Drs. David Baker, Evan Eichler, Deborah Nickerson, William Noble, and Judit Villen | UW Today | interviews now available via the UW Medicine website

Dr. Mary-Claire King has been awarded the Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research by the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

October 2015

The UW SACNAS chapter has received the Outstanding Chapter of the Year award at the 2015 SACNAS conference.

William Edelman has received the award for best Oral Graduate Presentation in Developmental Biology/Cancer Biology at the 2015 SACNAS conference.

Researchers awarded $12 million to study the human genome in 4-D
HS NewsBeat

September 2015

Reuters has named the University of Washington the world's most innovative public university.

Dr. Cole Trapnell has received a New Innovator Award from the NIH.

The Big Data for Genomics and Neuroscience Training Grant has been funded by the National Cancer Institute.

Jarrett Egertson and Matthew Snyder have received the Parker Travel Award for best poster at the Genome Sciences department retreat.

June 2015

Monica Sanchez has been awarded a Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology.

Dr. Mary-Claire King has been awarded the Prix Galien 2015 Pro Bono Humanum Award.

Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences to be led by Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos

May 2015

Dr. Jesse Bloom has received a Burroughs Wellcome Young Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases award.

Dr. Jay Shendure has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Dr. Stan Fields has been named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Dr. Michael MacCoss has been awarded the Biemann Medal by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

April 2015

Introducing the Genome Sciences incoming class of 2015:

Jolie Carlisle,  UC Berkeley
Khrystyna Dilai, Clarkson University
Sarah Hilton, George Washington University
Ken Jean-Baptiste, Princeton University
Juhye Lee, UW Medical Scientist Training Program / Rice University
Seungbeen Steven Lee, University of Washington
Andy Lin, University of Michigan
Eliah Overbey, UC San Diego
Jonathan Packer, Columbia University

Dr. Wenqing Fu has been awarded a K99 Career Transition Award from NHGRI.

Katherine Xue has been awarded a Hertz Fellowship.

Matt Rich has been awarded a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship.

Damon May has been awarded a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

Melissa Chiasson, Claudia Espinoza, Andrew Hill, and Hannah Pliner have been awarded NSF fellowships. Tim Durham, Serena Liu, Damon May, Cecilia Noecker, Vijay Ramani, Amanda Watts, and Aaron Wolf received honorable mention.

Stephanie Battle has been awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship. William Edelman has received honorable mention.

March 2015

Ivan Liachko has won the genomics poster award at the Fungal Genetics conference of the Genetics Society of America.

Dr. Sandra Zimmerman has been awarded third place for posters at the Genetics Society of America 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference.

February 2015

Dr. Cole Trapnell has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship.

Benjamin Vernot has been selected as a recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for outstanding achievement in graduate studies by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

January 2015

Dr. Ron Hause has received a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellowship.

Dr. Ivan Liachko has received a DeLill Nasser Award from the Genetics Society of America.

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Matt Maurano has been selected as a winner of the 2014 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research at the 64th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

The UW SACNAS chapter has received the 2014 Graduate Chapter of the Year award.

September 2014

Noted geneticist once was turned away from U.S. shores
Dr. Arno Motulsky fled Nazi Germany and became a global leader in medical genetics
UW Health Sciences News Beat

Dr. Stan Fields (senior editor) and Dr. Jay Shendure (associate editor) have been appointed to the editorial board of Genetics.

Dr. Stan Fields has been elected Vice President / President Elect of the Genetics Society of America.

Dr. Douglas Fowler has received a 2014 Alzheimer’s Association New Investigator award.

Dr. Mary-Claire King has been awarded the Lasker~Koshland
Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.
NY Times | Forbes | UW Today

July 2014

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.

Andrew Adey has received the 2014 Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Washington.

Dr. Jay Shendure has been awarded the 2014 HudsonAlpha Life Sciences Prize.

June 2014

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.

GS grad Michael Duyzend has been awarded an F30 predoctoral fellowship from NIMH.

May 2014

Lessons From the Woman Who Discovered the BRCA Cancer Gene
Dr. Mary-Claire King's interview with Time magazine

Dr. Jay Shendure's interview with Cell magazine is available via their 40 under 40 list.

Dr. Mary-Claire King will be the commencement speaker at, and receive an honorary degree from, the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Benjamin Hall has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The University of Washington has been ranked #3 in Genetics / Genomics / Bioinformatics graduate programs by US News and World Report.

April 2014

Introducing the incoming graduate class of 2014:

Clara Amorosi, Harvey Mudd College
Max Dougherty, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Claudia Espinoza, University of New Mexico
Greg Findlay, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Molly Gasperini, University of Washington
Andrew Hill, University of Washington
Emily Killingbeck, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Klein, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
John Lazar, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Serena Liu, Dartmouth College
Heather Machkovech, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Damon May, Yale University, University of Washington
Lindsay Pino, Penn State University
Hannah Pliner, Georgetown University
Brian Searle, Reed College
Aaron Wolf, Oberlin College
Katherine Xue, Harvard University

Dr. Judit Villen has been awarded the Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award from the US Human Proteome Organization.

Grads Ethan Ahler (Fowler Lab), Michael Dorrity (Queitsch Lab), and Seungsoo Kim (rotation) have been awarded NSF fellowships as have incoming grads Molly Gasperini and Katherine Xue. Anne Clark, Tim Durham, Kelsey Lynch, and Cecilia Noecker received honorable mention.

February 2014

Postdoctoral fellow Barbara Taskinen (Fowler Lab) has been awarded a two year fellowship from the Finnish Culture Foundation. She will be working on applying high-throughput sequencing to experimental protein evolution.

GS grad Benjamin Vernot has been awarded the Walter Fitch prize from the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution.

Andrew Stergachis and Andrew Adey have received the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for outstanding achievement in graduate studies.

GS grad Adam Gordon is a featured investigator on the Pharmacogenomics Research Network website.

December 2013

GS grad Keolu Fox has been awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from NHLBI.

October 2013

MacCoss Lab members Dr. Michael MacCoss and Brendan MacLean have been listed among the top 100 most influential analytical scientists by The Analytical Scientist magazine.

Andrew Stergachis has received the Epstein Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research for predoctoral trainees at the 2013 American Society for Human Genetics conference.

Dr. Jay Shendure has received a Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health and has been awarded the annual prize of the Dutch federation of Biomedical Scientific Societies.

The UW SACNAS chapter has received the SACNAS 2013 Distinguished Chapter award.

September 2013

Dr. Joseph Felsenstein has been awarded the 2013 International Prize for Biology by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Brad Coe and Tzitziki Lemus Vergara have received the Parker Travel Award for best posters at the 2013 department retreat. Ariel Altaras received honorable mention.

Anna Sunshine has been named graduate representative to the Genetics Society of America committee on Women in Genetics.

Jeff Vierstra and Andrew Stergachis have been named Finalists for the Epstein Award of the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG).  18 finalists were selected from over 600 applications nationwide.  Award winners will be selected at the October ASHG meeting in Boston.

July 2013

Dr. Maureen Munn, director of Genome Sciences Education Outreach, and colleagues in the UW Institute for Science and Math were awarded the July 2013 Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. GS faculty Josh Akey, Debbie Nickerson, and Gail Jarvik were co-PIs on the science education projects that were featured in the Science article.
Science | AAAS news | Seattle Times | NSF

Photos from the Dr. Stan Gartler & Dr. Arno Motulsky 90th birthday celebration are now available.

Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos has been awarded the 2013-14 Litchfield Lectureship of Oxford University.  He will spend a week in residence at Oxford during the academic year, and will deliver the University-wide Litchfield Lecture.

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.

May 2013

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.

April 2013

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

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.

MCB grad Nate Peters (Berg Lab) has been awarded second place in the graduate division, Cell and Molecular Biology, of the 2013 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.

March 2013

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

January 2013

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
Shendure Lab research makes CNN list of top ten discoveries in 2012

November 2012

Dr. Breck Byers and Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos have been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
UW Today

October 2012

Brian O'Roak and Matthew Snyder have received the Epstein Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research for postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees at the 2012 American Society for Human Genetics conference.

The UW SACNAS chapter has been named 2012 Chapter of the Year.

GS grad Katrina Claw has won the Best Graduate Student Presentation in Genetics and GS grad Keolu Fox has won the Best Graduate Student Presentation in Genetics/Health at the 2012 SACNAS conference.

Department Halloween costume pics are available here.

September 2012

Dr. Elhanan Borenstein has been awarded a 2012 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.
UW Today

Dr. Douglas Fowler has joined the Genome Sciences faculty. He is interested in how protein variation impacts function, and in understanding what the consequences of mutation can tell us about protein properties like three-dimensional structure and thermodynamic stability.

Lea Starita and Andrew Stergachis have received the Parker Travel Award for best poster at the 2012 department retreat.

August 2012

MCB graduate student and Dunham Lab member Monica Sanchez has been awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship.

GS graduate student and Stamatoyannopoulos Lab member Matt Maurano has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral PhD Fellows (F31) from NIMH.

July 2012

Dr. Jay Shendure has received the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.

MCB graduate student and Berg Lab member Nate Peters has won second place in the best student poster competition at the 2012 Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Montreal.

June 2012

Chromosome painting: Discovering beauty in DNA

May 2012

Questions and answers from the Future of Genome Sciences panel discussion are now available.

Dr. Evan Eichler has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. William Foege has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

April 2012

GS grads Jennifer McCreight (Swanson Lab), Jorgen Nelson (first year), Alexander Nuttle (Eichler Lab), and Jeff Staples (Nickerson Lab) have been awarded NSF fellowships. GS grads Stephanie Battle and Alex Mason received honorable mention.

Introducing the incoming graduate class of 2012:

Julia Behnen, Scripps College
Daniel Chee, University of New Mexico
Vanessa Gray, Arizona State University
Alex Hu, University of Texas
Daniel Kim, University of Michigan
Aaron McKenna, Broad Institute, Boston University
Han-Yin Yang, National Yang-Ming University

March 2012

MCB grad and Berg Lab member Nate Peters has won the Grand Prize at the 2012 Northwest Developmental Biology meeting for best talk by a graduate student.

Genome Sciences / MSTP grad and Stamatoyannopoulos Lab member Andrew Stergachis has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30) from NIDDK.

Genome Sciences / MSTP grad and Dunham Lab member Anna Brosius has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30) from NCI.

GS grad Sarah Ng and former GS grad Jeff Kidd featured in Forbes Magazine's "30 under 30" science and innovation list.

December 2011

UW funded to realize medical applications of genome sequencing
UW Today

November 2011

Award-winning organization inspires underrepresented students to explore sciences
UW Today 11/22/11

October 2011

Dr. Christine Queitsch has been awarded a 2011 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

The UW SACNAS chapter was selected as Chapter of the Year at the 2011 SACNAS conference.

GS grad Keolu Fox won the award for best oral presentation in genetics by a graduate student at the 2011 SACNAS conference.

Genome Sciences 10th Anniversary Symposium
symposium website

September 2011

Dr. Megan Dennis has been awarded the 2011 American Society of Human Genetics postdoctoral basic award for her work on SRGAP2 and human evolution.

Dr. Michael Hoffman has received a K99 funding award from the NIH

GS grad Leslie Emery has received the C.W. Cotterman Award from the American Society of Human Genetics for for the best paper published in the Journal by a graduate student or postdoctoral trainee.

August 2011

Dr. Jay Shendure has been awarded funding for the development of revolutionary DNA sequencing technologies.
UW Today | NHGRI

GS grad Peter Sudmant has been awarded a HHMI international student fellowship

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

Researchers Find De Novo Autism Mutations Using Exome Sequencing
Nature | GenomeWeb | UW Today | HHMI

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

Genome Sciences Symposium

Tuesday, April 6
Genome Sciences Panel Discussion
"New Discoveries in Medicine: Implications for the Cost and Quality of American Healthcare."

Wednesday, April 7
Genome Sciences Symposium
"New Technologies for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Disease."