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Dr. Michael White Co-Authored Paper Published in Science (Links to an external site)
Dr. Joseph Corbo, Dr. Michael White from Washington University in St. Louis along with a team at the University of Porto in Portugal describe that a single enzyme appears to be responsible for toggling a parrot’s pigments from red to yellow.
The Inaugural Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lectureship Hosted at the Department of Genetics
The Inaugural Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lectureship was hosted at the Department of Genetics on October 3rd, 2024 with Dr. Michael Brent delivering a talk titled “Mapping and modeling transcriptional regulatory networks”. Dr. Michael Brent is the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering of Washington University […]
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin
Dr. Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, Assistant Professor of Genetics, recently received his first R01 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), a milestone for his lab. In this article, Dr. Jin shares the story of his lab, research and what he enjoys most as a faculty member at WashU.
Dr. Guoyan Zhao awarded R21 from the NIH to study neurodegenerative disease
Dr. Guoyan Zhao in the Department of Genetics and Dr. Erik Musiek in the Department of Neurology have been awarded R21 from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Yang Eric Li awarded St. Baldrick’s Foundation research grants to study pediatric cancers (Links to an external site)
Li was awarded the St. Baldrick’s Foundation Scholar Grant, which provides $234,000 for his project to study disruptions in gene activity that may underlie diffuse midline glioma.
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