Glad that our sequence model of promoters in human genome is now published in Science Magazine. Check out the paper for a deep dive into the sequence basis of transcription initiation at the basepair level: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tick tock, tick tock! 🕒 The 2024 Genomics Class WUSM Department of Genetics is in its final countdown! Let's smash those finals like true Genomics Gurus! 💥📚 #Genomics #Genetics #STEM

Had a fantastic time hosting Fritz Sedlazeck at WUSM Department of Genetics for an amazing talk! Great hanging out with Lawson Lab, Tychele Turner, and Daofeng Li – thanks for the fun and engaging discussions! #GeneticsCommunity #ScienceCollab

Join us WUSM Department of Genetics 12-1 PM CDT for a seminar by the distinguished Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck Fritz Sedlazeck of BCM HGSC Rice Computer Science on #Genomics #StructuralVariations . Don't miss the chance to hear from this exceptional speaker! Washington U. Med McDonnell Genome Institute @WUSTL

Join WUSM Department of Genetics today @ Noon CST in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck Fritz Sedlazeck, presents (in-person only) “Genomic Structural Variations and beyond 1”, hosted by Dr. Peter Jin
Sheng Chih Jin

Defects in motile cilia in humans cause the rare disease Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). A study led by WUSM Department of Genetics graduate student in the Dutcher Lab sheds light on how PF23 dosage affects #cilia assembly and regeneration.
genetics.wustl.edu/new-study-shed…

Have you registered for the Stormo Symposium on Computational Biology WUSM Department of Genetics yet? Just look at this incredible lineup of speakers! Gary Stormo Xiaole Shirley Liu Takis Benos Eugene W Myers Jr Zhiping Weng
May 21, 2024. Register today!
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Find our list of distinguished speakers!

More seats added! 🙌 Join us May 2 in NYC or virtually for a discussion on AI's role in scientific discovery at Unlocking the Mysteries of Cells with AI. Hear from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Dr. Priscilla Chan and Rockefeller University's Dr. Richard Lifton. Register: bit.nyas.org/3Vw7k9Y

Pretty cool that ⁦Kahle Laboratory⁩ alumna Amrita Singh can find a novel human disease gene, SMARCC1 - making the cover of Brain - while a neurosurgery intern ⁦Columbia Neurosurgery⁩. True grit! Thanks Sheng Chih Jin⁩ and Engin Deniz lab ⁦Yale School of Medicine⁩. ⁦MGH Neurosurgery⁩

Last night Leila Solnica-Krezel gave an incredible talk at the Academic Women’s Network Spring dinner. It went from her upbringing in Poland to her love of zebrafish to her goals as Head of Developmental Biology to her mentoring of great science by her faculty . Brava Leila!

Variants in autophagy genes MTMR12 and FAM134A are putative ... : Hepatology journals.lww.com/hep/abstract/9…

Did you know that Mary Beth Hatten (Mary E. Hatten) was the first woman to be named head of a laboratory at Rockefeller? Watch her discuss her life and work in this interview from our #oralhistory project.
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Thanks for joining us today to celebrate our lab's 4th birthday! It's been an incredible four years, and here's to many more years of fun and productivity ahead! WUSM Department of Genetics

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How do Transposable Elements(TEs) affect transcriptome regulation and other cellular processes in #cancer ? Can TEs be used as therapeutic targets for cancer? Watch our PhD students Yonghao Liang Xuan Qu discuss their research in Dr. Ting Wang's lab.genetics.wustl.edu/video-phd-stud…

Thrilled to share our recent manuscript Cell Metabolism presenting human kidney anatomical and metabolomic heterogeneity with single-cell and spatial multiomics! This project is not possible without my awesome and supportive PhD mentor Dr. Humphreys Ben Humphreys!

Gervette Penny’s graduate work is out in PLoS Genetics. Kudos to her hard work

Happy to share a review led by Yuhan Xie on assessing de novo variant effects on birth defects with co-authors Ruoxuan Wu, Hongyu Li, Weilai Dong, and Geyu Zhou. Yale Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.118…