Skype for Business arrives at Department of Genetics
Skype for Business (S4B) is a web conferencing service available to the WUSTL community. There is no cost to use the service. The service is enabled for all WUSTL faculty, staff and students who have been migrated to the Office 365 service. This service is separate...Conrad lab member accepts post-doc at Boston Children’s Hospital
Arthur Lee, M.D., Ph.D., a recent MSTP graduate from the Conrad lab, has accepted a post-doc position with Elizabeth Engle, an HHMI investigator at Boston Children’s Hospital, and will begin in August 2017.Siteman Cancer Center opens north St. Louis County location
Siteman Cancer Center will begin seeing patients July 1 at its newest satellite location, Christian Hospital in north St. Louis County. Siteman Cancer Center is based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, and the new location is...New clues found to common respiratory virus
By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people with weakened immune systems, such as infants and the elderly, can face serious complications, including pneumonia and – in some...$10 million DNA sequencing effort aims to shed light on lung diseases
Washington University’s McDonnell Genome Institute has received $10 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to sequence the DNA of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, in an effort to identify the genetic roots of chronic obstructive...Peter Wang passes qualifying exam
Peter Wang passed his qualifying exam on June 13, marking a major checkpoint in his graduate studies. Congratulations, Peter! Powered by WPeMaticoUTI treatment reduces E. coli, may offer alternative to antibiotics
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, and they tend to come back again and again, even when treated. Most UTIs are caused by E. coli that live in the gut and spread to the urinary tract. A new study from Washington University School of...March 29, 4 PM: ICTS Genomics in Medicine Series, “Cancer Case Studies”
“Cancer Case Studies”, presented by Dr. Lukas Wartman, Holden AuditoriumTING WANG AND BARAK COHEN RECEIVE ENCODE GRANT
Department of Genetics professors Ting Wang and Barak Cohen have been awarded a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to participate in the next phase of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.