IDDRC@WUSTL announced on August 10 that Dr. Joe Dougherty will serve with Dr. Christina Gurnett as its Co-Director. Congratulations, Joe, & well-played, IDDRC@WUSTL, in selecting him to co-lead w/ Chris. Quite a dynamic team you’ve put together!
June 20, 2022: Jennifer Karlow’s latest paper, “Developmental pathways are epigenetically reprogrammed during lung cancer brain metastasis”, is out today in AACR Journals. April 14, 2022: Congratulations to DBBS’ own Yiran Hou (MGG, Wang...
April, 12, 2022 We liked Dr. Bernard Mulvey recent tweet, “This was a fun little side hustle in the last few months of my PhD with @CarpeRibosomam. Great work everyone!”. Check out the Dougherty lab’s latest publication, “Typical hippocampal...
Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD, has accepted our offer to join WashU this coming academic year. Gabor is interested in the metabolic underpinnings of epigenetic regulation and how epigenetic changes influence brain function. He will join the Departments of Genetics and...
February 11, 2022: Six researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Richard Axelbaum, PhD, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, along with five researchers at the School of Medicine —...
Dr. Xiaoxia Cui in the McDonnell Genome Institute has a Biomek FX available to a good laboratory home. She says it is functional but requires regular service. It has been used to transfer ~1 ul to ~20 ul with a 96-well head and it can accommodate 96-well and...
March 4, 2022: Congratulations to Caitlin Dingwall and the Milbrandt/DiAntonio labs on their new preprint, “Macrophage depletion blocks congenital SARMI-dependent neuropathy”.
March 14, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Elena Minakova on being awarded the American Federation of Medical Research Scholar Award at the Eastern Medical Research, for her outstanding work on how ontogenetic oxycodone exposure affects developing and adult mice! March 3,...
A new review out of the @PETERJIN999 lab provides an overview of recent methods for identifying rare and common variants and understanding their roles in disease etiology. Co-1st authors are postdoc, Yung-Chun Wang, grad students, Shujuan Zhao & Julie Choi, and...
Washington University announced in a recent press release that the National Academy of Inventors has elected Drs. Douglas Covey, Jeffrey Milbrandt, and Dan Moran to its 2021 cohort of fellows. The NAI fellowship is the highest professional distinction reserved solely...
The Lawson Lab has a new preprint, “Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific gene expression.” Celine St. Pierre, a graduate student in the lab, is first author. Congratulations, all!
Ting Wang, PhD, the Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, was recently named as leader for part of the Data Coordinating Center for the new Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF)...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “A Cre-dependent massively parallel reporter assay allows for cell-type specific assessment of the functional effects of genetic variants in vivo.” Tomás Lagunas Jr, a graduate student in the lab, is lead author on the...
Dr. Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin was awarded funding from Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) as part of the 14th annual Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP). Dr. Jin was one of seventeen researchers who was...
The Mollah Lab has a new preprint, “A Non-Negative Tensor Factorization Approach to Deconvolute Microenvironment in Breast Cancer.” Min Shi, a postdoc in the lab, is senior author on the preprint. Liubou Klindziuk, a summer intern in the lab, is also an...
Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine, recently contributed to a new paper in JAMA Pediatrics, “Exome Sequencing as a Potential Diagnostic Adjunct in Sporadic Congenital Hydrocephalus.”...
The Wang Lab recently published a paper, “Exploring the coronavirus pandemic with the WashU Virus Genome Browser,” in Nature Genetics. Jennifer Flynn, a graduate student in the lab, is lead author on the paper. Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of Genetics and The...
Scott Lee, an undergraduate researcher in the Dougherty Lab, will be leaving this fall to work at The Jackson Laboratory in a very competitive MSTP post-bacc fellowship. Congratulations, Scott!
The Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine and the McDonnell Genome Institute’s WashU SEPA program, an NIH-funded science outreach project, is helping to provide food items to St. James AME Church during the coronavirus pandemic. The...
By Jim Skeath, PhD, Professor of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine I’ve always felt that the keys to success in graduate school are to work hard and have fun – to work hard, think hard, do experiments, and to enjoy what you do and where you do it. I...
Alex Miranda, a graduate student in the Lawson Lab, was recently inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in graduate education. Congratulations, Alex!
The first Medical Genetics Awareness Week kicks off on April 2, 2019 with the theme “Celebrating the Contributions of the Entire Medical Genetics Team to Patient Care.” Through this event, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) “aims...
Joseph Dougherty, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, recently got a three-year award from the Simons Foundation for his project, “4/4 SSC ASC Whole Genome Sequencing Consortium: UTR mutation analysis.” Congratulations, Dr....
The Milbrandt lab published a paper recently on Schwann cell O-GlcNAcylation. The paper, “Schwann cell O-GlcNAcylation promotes peripheral nerve remyelination via attenuation of the AP-1 transcription factor JUN,” appears in PNAS. Sungsu Kim, Ph.D., an...
It is with great sadness that the Department of Genetics informs you of the passing of Stephen L. Johnson, PhD, early Friday morning. As everyone knows Steve was a highly regarded scientist in our Genetics Department at Washington University School of Medicine. Steve...
Congratulations to Dr. Don Conrad and Dr. Joe Dougherty, who were recently awarded tenure in the Department of Genetics. Read more about Dr. Conrad’s work here, and get more information about Dr. Dougherty’s work here.
Dr. Ting Wang’s published a paper recently on tissue-specific DNA methylation. The paper, titled “Tissue-specific DNA methylation is conserved across human, mouse, and rat, and driven by primary sequence conservation,” uses a comparative epigenomics...
Dr. Joseph Ippolito, a member of Dr. Jeff Milbrandt’s lab, and his research team had a paper published recently in JCI Insight. The article, “Sexual dimorphism in glioma glycolysis underlies sex differences in survival,” shows that enhanced glucose...
