‘You want to do something in the lab that matters within your lifetime:’ Promising Young Scientist Clara Libbrecht works ‘bench to bedside’ for children Seattle Children's
Children's Hospital Boston Children's
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BBI's Dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb has left UW Medicine for a position as a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Kidney Disease Innovation. BBI wishes him well in his new role.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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BBI's Evan Eichler is senior/corresponding author on nature paper - genomic study of human & selected nonhuman primate centromeres revealing 'unimaginable diversity & speed of evolutionary change.'
UW Medicine NIH National Cancer Institute EichlerLab
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Working under BBI’s Danny Miller's direction, 3 PhD students are using Long-Read Sequencing to help seek ‘an end to the diagnostic odyssey for individuals and their families.’
Oxford Nanopore UW Medicine
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'Our lab has a culture of brainstorming, and with the right culture of creative people, eventually a half-baked idea turns into something:' Jay Shendure comments to
Inside Precision Medicine on SeaHub.
Allen Institute Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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REMINDER - TOMORROW AT 9AM: Next session of Variant Effects Seminar Series is Tuesday April 2 at 9 am (PST) - Ian Hoskins of UT Austin & Gabriella Estevam, UCSF will discuss their research.
Gabriella Estevam university of texas Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance
UCSF School of Medicine
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'Take it to the limit of our current imagination and beyond:' Dr. Jesse Gray has inspired several successful teams. He's now embarked on his greatest challenge & opportunity: SeaHub.
Allen Institute Chan Zuckerberg Initiative UW Medicine
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The next session of Variant Effects Seminar Series is Tuesday April 2 at 9 am (PST) - Ian Hoskins of UT Austin
& Gabriella Estevam, UCSF Gabriella Estevam will discuss their research.
university of texas Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance UCSF School of Medicine
Link: varianteffect.org/seminar-series

DEADLINE APPROACHING - April 1 is the final day for abstract submissions for the 7th Annual Mutual Scanning Symposium in Cambridge, MA.
Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance Broad Institute UW Genome Sciences
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BBI's Susan Bullman Susan Bullman is corresponding author of nature paper finding that a microbe commonly found in the mouth can travel to the gut & grow within colorectal cancer tumors.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center American Cancer Society NIH

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'Research in human genetics and genomics has an outsized impact on our local economy and those who live here. We must all work to keep it that way.' Gail Jarvik pens a compelling argument for NIH funding.
UW Medicine ASHG SeattleTimes Opinion

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Congrats to BBI's William Grady - corresponding author on NEJM paper on cfDNA blood-based test w/ 83% sensitivity for colorectal cancer, 90% for advanced neoplasia & 13% for advanced precancerous lesions.
UW Medicine

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Christopher Kemp Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has been awarded 5-yr, $5.4m National Cancer Institute grant to identify new cancer therapy targets in tumor tissues donated by patients. 2 other BBI members are colloborating w/him: liz swisher & Steve Henikoff.
UW Medicine National Human Genome Research Institute

Paper by Lea Starita Helen Chu & Janet Englund in BMC serves as model to monitor households for onset of SARS-CoV-2.
UW Medicine Seattle Children's CDC

Interested in high-throughput functional assays for research or clinical applications? Don't miss this 1-hour webinar, 'MaveDB: discovery & interpretation of high-throughput functional assay data' led by Alan Rubin, Ph.D. Details: biocommons.org.au/events/mavedb
Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance

Join us! Next Viruses and Vaccines Seminar, Tuesday, March 19 from 9-10 am. Topic is 'All in the Family: Using household studies to understand risk factors and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses.' Helen Chu is featured speaker.
UW Medicine
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BBI's Alpana Waghmare Seattle Children's quoted in The New York Times piece on COVID-19; children’s immune systems, she says, may be better primed than adults because they are frequently exposed to benign coronaviruses causing common colds.
Knvul Sheikh World Health Organization (WHO)

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BBI's Helen Chu is leading clinical trials to study long COVID for NIH, part of the NIH RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery) Initiative. Last month she chaired a symposium on Long COVID.
UW Medicine
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What's ahead for MSS 2024? 'Bringing together new & existing members of our mutational scanning community, but also an opportunity to introduce those communities to the Broad community:' J.T. Neal, Broad Institute
Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance

Why is Institute for Protein Design a 'start up factory?' Director David Baker tells readers of GeekWire.
UW Medicine Google

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