Indeed! So much important research is being done with the GWAS catalog — pleiotropy, genetics in diverse populations, investigation of signatures of natural selection overlapping GWAS hits — being able to include cancer biology is critical.

Congratulations 🎉

So true! The one common certainty of senior women in science is that they “didn’t do it the right way” — they each did it a different right way for them!

This has been one of the most fun and exciting projects to think about and work on from conception. Kudos to Doug and his team — fantastic work with terrific downstream utility!

Josee Dupuis — super mentor, super scientist, super leader. Congratulations on terrific award!

Advocacy is hard work, but Dr. Jeff has always made it look easy because of her passion — thanks from the entire community!

Ken Lange is a treasure for the entire genetics community! Such an impact in our field with his research, his books and his many outstanding trainees!

Well-deserved award and so proud to be a collaborator!

So happy and excited to see Ben achieve this award!

So love to see important new work in transcriptome genetics in African Americans. Congratulations to Team Perera!

Grateful I can be busy at home, so I don’t worry even more than usual. But for others also this lucky, remember not all of our loved ones share this luck. Reach out even more than usual, to family members and others who cannot work from home. #newtraditions2020

Having a blast CGSI-The Computational Genomics Summer Institute — amazing science, enthusiastic young people, and (if you enjoyed my Old Fashioneds at the picnic) dancing under the stars to Chaka Khan at the Hollywood Bowl!

Day 4 #FemStarScience I salute
Jane Ferguson
Megan Shuey
Tyne Miller
Martha Dudek
Gillian Hooker

And challenge the terrific Anna Greka (young but senior) to name each day for 1 week 5 rising female stars in science and challenge 1 senior woman

Day 3 of my #FemStarScience challenge and celebrate

Reyna L Gordon Reyna Gordon
Maria Niarchou (she/her) Maria Niarchou
Qiping Feng
Selene FeRNAndez Selene Fernandez
Cassianne Robinson-Cohen

And challenge Anna Di Rienzo to name each day for 1 week 5 rising female stars and challenge 1 senior woman

Day 2 of #FemStarScience and I champion
Alex Fish
Rebecca Levinson
Lea Davis
Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social
paleogenomics

And challenge my friend and colleague Karen Mohlke to name for each day for 1 week 5 rising female stars in science and challenge one senior woman!

Do celebrate the birth of a paper, or the gestation of a grant. They are as pure a distillation of our love for scientific inquiry as there is. Celebrate the science! Other people’s judgements might sometimes be worth celebrating too, but science first!

Association of Genetic Variants With Warfarin-Associated Bleeding Among Patients of African Descent ja.ma/2S9MKZ1. So cool to see progress toward reducing rather than increasing health disparities — excellent work by Minoli Perera and colleagues!

Cool approach introduced by Emily Hodges at Vanderbilt Genetics Symposium: ATAC-Seq x BiSeq to look simultaneously at DNA accessibility and methylation over time — ATAC Me

Congratulations to Peter Visscher on earning recognition as a new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences!

Lovely memorial service for Brian Suarez on Saturday at Washington University. Practiced rigorous logic, and a “work hard / play hard with your family” philosophy. Also “If you publish papers, review papers. If you expect to fund grants, review grants. Contribute.” Great man!