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The 2nd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture and the announcement of the 2025 Stormo Fellow
The Department of Genetics recently hosted the 2nd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture, featuring keynote speaker Timothy Hughes, PhD, who presented his talk, “Codebook: sequence specificity of human transcription factors.” As part of the event, the department proudly announced this year’s Stormo Fellowship in Computational and Systems Biology recipient: Jennie Yao, a PhD student in the labs of Dr. Obi Griffith and Dr. Malachi Griffith.
Graduate Student Emma Casey Awarded Prestigious CMB T32 Training Grant
Graduate student Emma Casey of the Jin lab has been appointed to the Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) T32 Training Grant, a competitive program funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Saintilnord, Reynolds named exceptional early-career research fellows (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine postdoctoral researchers Wesley Saintilnord, PhD, in the Department of Genetics (left) and Matthew Reynolds, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (right) have been named Jane Coffin Childs Fellows. The prestigious award supports early-career scientists conducting biomedical research that could inform the cause and treatment of human disease.
$12 million grant funds studies of role of genes in autism, similar diagnoses (Links to an external site)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $11.85 million grant to create a resource for the WashU and national research communities to study the growing number of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders known to be caused by a single gene mutation.
Phillips-Cremins named BJC investigator (Links to an external site)
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD, an international leader in understanding 3D genome structure and how it affects brain development and neurological diseases, has been named a BJC Investigator at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Phillips-Cremins will join the Department of Genetics as the James McDonnell Professor and have a dual appointment in the Department of Neuroscience.
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