Delighted to share that @VUMCgenetics PhD student Tara Mack was awarded a VU Provost Office Pathbreaking Discovery Award, recognizing Tara's research excellence and contributions to our Vanderbilt University community!

We are excited to share our paper in print today in Nature Communications! Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4146…. Grateful to co-first-author Tara Mack, Alex Bick, our many collaborators, and the @nih_nhlbi TOPMed participants.

Out in Nature Aging today, Tara Mack & Michael Raddatz identify epigenetic and proteomic signatures associated with #CHIP clonal expansion nature.com/articles/s4358…

Can't wait for our lab's first PhD student Tara Mack's dissertation defense next Friday! Many thanks to Tara's committee: Dr. Melinda Aldrich, MPH, PhD Jane F Ferguson Jonathan Mosley Ferrell Lab @VUMCgenetics Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences

Congratulations Dr. Tara Mack on a spectacular PhD defense! Your science, mentorship and leadership in the lab and across campus is an inspiration. It has been such a privilege to learn together the past 3 years. @VUMCgenetics Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Vanderbilt School of Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Taralynn Mack, PhD!!! I feel so incredibly lucky to have had the privilege of being Alex Bick ‘s first grad student and to be a part of the special community that is @VUMCgenetics. Deeply grateful to my lab, my committee, and this community who make science so rewarding!

We are excited to share our new preprint “Variance quantitative trait loci reveal gene-gene interactions which alter blood traits”! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. Thread below 🧵 1/n

Bick Lab skaryotype results came back just in time for Halloween! Alex Bick

Tara Mack, Alex Bick, and I are excited to share our new paper in Haematologica, “Germline genetics, disease, and exposure to medication influence longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis” doi.org/10.3324/haemat… 1/n

Alex Reiner Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Alex Bick, and I are excited to share our new preprint, “Correlates and Consequences of Clonal Hematopoiesis Expansion Rate: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study of 6,986 Women” doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… 1/n