Kow Essuman, a graduate student in the Milbrandt Lab, and Alex Russo, a graduate student in the DiAntonio Lab, are finalists for the O’Leary Prize. As finalists, Kow and Alex will give short presentations of their research at the O’Leary Prize Competition on...
The Calling Cards team in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis had their preprint on self-reporting transposons selected for a prelight. The prelight contains additional insights about the paper from Arnav Moudgil, a...
The Lawson Lab recently had a paper published in Nutrition & Metabolism. The paper, “Dietary iron interacts with genetic background to influence glucose homeostasis,” shows the importance of accounting for genetic variation when assessing the effects...
Jeff Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Professor and head of the Department of Genetics, is helping usher in a new era at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Milbrandt, who was recently appointed executive...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Susan Dutcher, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in...
Tomás Lagunas Jr., a graduate student in the Dougherty Lab in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was recently named a fellow of the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development. The program gives graduate...
The Dougherty Lab recently had a paper published in Cell Reports. The paper, “Cell-Type-Specific Profiling of Alternative Translation Identifies Regulated Protein Isoform Variation in the Mouse Brain,” shows that alternative translation is widespread and...
Joe Willis, a lab assistant in the Department of Genetics, is recovering well after a car accident in January. Joe is in Room 316 of St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Hospital. Please stop by and visit, or send your best wishes for a speedy recovery: St. Mary’s...
The Mitra lab has a new preprint, “Self-reporting transposons enable simultaneous readout of gene expression and transcription factor binding in single cells.” The first author on the paper is Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in Dr. Rob Mitra’s lab....
Max Staller, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Cohen Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, got a K99 career award from National Institutes of Health. His project, “High-Throughput Functional Interrogation of Mammalian Activation...
