IDDRC@WUSTL names Dr. Joe Dougherty, Co-Director

IDDRC@WUSTL announced on August 10 that Dr. Joe Dougherty will serve with Dr. Christina Gurnett as its Co-Director. Congratulations, Joe, & well-played, IDDRC@WUSTL, in selecting him to co-lead w/ Chris. Quite a dynamic team you’ve put together!

Latest pubs out of the Milbrandt, DiAntonio, & Mitra Labs

Be sure to check out these recently published articles: Congrats to Kelsey Krus (DiAntonio/Milbrandt labs) on her paper demonstrating that loss of STMN2 in mice induces slowly progressive motor deficits, a cardinal feature of ALS. Exciting work from the DiAntonio...

All kinds of good things coming out of the Wang lab these days!

June 20, 2022:  Jennifer Karlow’s latest paper, “Developmental pathways are epigenetically reprogrammed during lung cancer brain metastasis”, is out today in AACR Journals. April 14, 2022:  Congratulations to DBBS’ own Yiran Hou (MGG, Wang...

Congratulations to the Jin lab!

May 20, 2022: The Jin lab has received a 5-year Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation Grant to investigate the impact of non-coding variants in cerebral palsy.

New publication out of the Dougherty lab

April, 12, 2022 We liked Dr. Bernard Mulvey recent tweet, “This was a fun little side hustle in the last few months of my PhD with @CarpeRibosomam. Great work everyone!”.  Check out the Dougherty lab’s latest publication, “Typical hippocampal...

Dr. Gabor Egervari to join Genetics and BMB faculty in January 2023

Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD, has accepted our offer to join WashU this coming academic year.  Gabor is interested in the metabolic underpinnings of epigenetic regulation and how epigenetic changes influence brain function.   He will join the Departments of Genetics and...

New publications from the Dutcher and Turner labs

Turner lab: “From karyotypes to precision genomics in 9p deletion and duplication syndromes” in Cell. “Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2nd Edition” is out now. Dutcher lab: “Ciliary central apparatus structure reveals mechanisms of...

Rob Mitra named senior member of the Nat’l Academy of Inventors

February 11, 2022: Six researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).  Richard Axelbaum, PhD, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, along with five researchers at the School of Medicine —...