Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 24
Genome Sciences Seminar:
Dr. Blake Meyers | UC Davis
"Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction and other pathways"
3:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | talk will be recorded
Wednesday, May 1
Genome Sciences Seminar: Dr. Needhi Bhalla | UC Santa Cruz
"A Tale of Two Checkpoints"
3:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | talk will be recorded
New Faculty
Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Nobuhiko Hamazaki has accepted an offer to be a joint faculty member in Genome Sciences, Ob-Gyn, and ISCRM, based in the South Lake Union campus in Ob-Gyn research space and has joined our department. He was a graduate student at Kyoto University, and a postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University, where he worked to establish a method to induce oocytes from mouse pluripotent stem cells entirely in vitro. He then worked with Jay Shendure in Genome Sciences on stem cell-derived human gastruloids. Dr. Hamazaki’s research lies at the interface of peri-implantation embryonic development; reproductive biology; stem cell engineering; and genomic technology.
Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Chia-Lin Wei from the Jackson Laboratory has accepted our offer to be a professor in the department and director of the Northwest Genomics Center and has joined our department. Dr. Wei’s research program includes the development and optimization of new genomic technologies and the analysis of chromatin structure. Dr. Wei has built and directed three large-scale sequencing centers, at the Genome Institute of Singapore, the Joint Genome Institute and the Jackson Laboratory.
Department News
Introducing the Genome Sciences 2024 incoming class:
Ayomikun Akinrinade - UC Irvine
Carina Biar - Northwestern University
Kyle Brandt - University of Minnesota
Ben Cohen Stillman - UC Davis
Alex Donny - University of Minnesota
Zanny Ham - Hamilton College
Rachael Hu - University of Washington
Lucas Kerr - UW MSTP
Anna Leipertz - UC Berkeley
Carlo Melendez - Western Washington University
Jyoti Rai - University of South Alabama
Yash Sonthalia - Johns Hopkins University
Megan Taylor - University of Washington
Karl Young - Reed College
Conor Kelly and Bo Wen have received NSF Fellowships. Erik Bergstrom and Conor Finkbeiner have received honorable mention.
Zachary Amador, UC Riverside
Matthew Chaw, Franklin & Marshall College
Hank Cheng, UW MSTP
Marazzano Colon, Duke University
Catherine Daniel, University of Texas, Arlington
Sanjay Kottapalli, Johns Hopkins University, Weill Cornell
Evan McDermot, University of Kansas
Abby McGee, MIT
Sean Perez, Pomona College
Rachel Powell, Iowa State University
Olivia Waltner, Whitman College
Riku Yasutomi, UW MSTP
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