Wonderful note of appreciation from IGVF for BBI hosting reception Monday night at Seattle Aquarium.

What’s the connection of Dr. Stan Fields to @FPRoth fascination w/multiplexed assays of variant effects? Learn the answer on the VUS podcast led by Alex N Nguyen Ba . UW Genome Sciences University of Pittsburgh open.spotify.com/episode/2rebpK…

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: The next Variant Effects Seminar Series is Tuesday, October 1, 9 to 10 am (Pacific). Saori Sakaue Harvard Medical School & @Priyank67495046 UC San Francisco will present. Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance varianteffect.org/seminar-series

Get the advance word on BBI-sponsored Long-Read Sequencing Symposium, October 28th at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Chia-lin Wei UW Genome Sciences discusses her presentation and views on the future of long-read. brotmanbaty.org/events

From malaria vaccines to Sea-Hub, Jason Netland is a 'thoughtful colleague who cares not only about the science, but also the people on his team.' Learn more about this promising young scientist. brotmanbaty.org/news/promising…

'(We need) to identify software that can analyze long-read sequencing data & produce results, similar to deep & broad analyses w/ software for short read data:' Scott Furlan, MD Seattle Children's UW Medicine Fred Hutch Cancer Center brotmanbaty.org/news/q-and-a-w…

HUGE congrats to David Baker colleague and collaborator on ring awarded the Nobel Prize! Institute for Protein Design newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/…

'Our goal is to use Long-Read Sequencing to identify broader spectrum of variation to improve our understanding of normal patterns of human variation:' new Genome Research paper led by BBI's Danny Miller. Seattle Children's New York University repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/4170…

BBI's Jay Shendure, & Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Stephen Quake join others on paper, 'How to Build the Virtual Cell with Artificial Intelligence: Priorities and Opportunities,' published in arXiv.org arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11654

ONLY 6 YEARS AWAY: Researchers, clinicians & others have developed recommendations to create a clinical atlas of genetic variant effects by 2030 - 'profound implications for understanding human biology & diagnosing & managing disease' Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance brotmanbaty.org/news/researche…

'Multiplex, single-cell CRISPRa screening for cell type specific regulatory elements:' Nature Communications paper w/Lea Starita & Jay Shendure among authors UW Genome Sciences UCSF School of Medicine University of Oxford nature.com/articles/s4146…

‘Writing music is similar to writing a research paper:’ BBI's Riddhiman Garge embraces 2 distinct passions brotmanbaty.org/news/promising… UW Genome Sciences UW Medicine Jay Shendure Lea Starita

TOMORROW AT 9 AM (Pacific): The November Variant Effects Seminar Series will feature Moez Dawood & Gonzalo Benegas. No registration needed. See: varianteffect.org/seminar-series

'By building something new, we can have a deeper understanding of how that new creation functions.' Learn how Nobuhiko Hamazaki's stem cell expertise is helping drive the work of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology Allen Institute UW Medicine brotmanbaty.org/news/nobuhiko-…

BBI collaboration w/GeneDx seeks to reduce 'considerable disparities in access to (genetic) testing,' says Dr. Mike Bamshad. Seattle Children's UW Medicine Geisinger businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

BBI's Nobu Hamazaki (1st author) & Jay Shendure (corresponding author) among others from BBI on Nature Cell Biology paper, 'Retinoic acid induces human gastruloids with posterior embryo-like structures' UW Genome Sciences Fred Hutch Cancer Center pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39164488/

Join the Dec 3, 10 am (PT) 1-hour webinar hosted by Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance & Springer Nature on making MAVE protocols public & maximizing discoverability of your protocols Register - protocols.io/webinars/proto…

REMINDER: Tomorrow [Dec 3, 10 am (PT)] is the 1-hour webinar hosted by Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance & Springer Nature on making MAVE protocols public & maximizing discoverability of your protocols Register protocols.io/webinars/proto…

TOMORROW AT 9 AM (Pacific): The next Variant Effects Seminar Series is set for 7 January. Learn more and log on here: varianteffect.org/seminar-series

VARIANT ANALYSIS UPDATE: Members of the AVE Alliance, including BBI’s Drs. Doug Fowler & Lea Starita, today published a curated community database w/7 million+ variant effects from multiplexed functional assays. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…