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...
The Skeath Lab recently had a paper published in eLife, “Unc-4 acts to promote neuronal identity and development of the take-off circuit in the Drosophila CNS.” Haluk Lacin, PhD, a member of the lab, is first author on the paper, and Jim Skeath, Professor...
The Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Department of Developmental Biology recently hosted Microscopy Day at the Urban Girls Institute of the Sophia Project. The event was organized by Jim Skeath, Ph.D., Professor...
We’re thankful for our students! Last night Dr. Jim Skeath hosted the 18th Annual Genetics, Dev. Bio, Comp Bio PhD Programs and First Year DBBS Thanksgiving Dinner. By the looks of it, it was a hit!
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Skeath, Professor of Genetics, and students in the MARC U-STAR program at Washington University in St. Louis who attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Indianapolis, Indiana last weekend. Tahj...
