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Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal by the Genetics Society!
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Mendel Medal 2026 - Professor Joe Felsenstein | Genetics Society
The Mendel Medal 2026 has been awarded to Professor Joe Felsenstein. Professor Joe Felsenstein was born in 1942, grew up in Philadelphia and studied as an
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Congratulations to Alison Feder on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar!
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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Congratulations to Bill Noble on receiving the 2026 Gil Omenn Computational Proteomics Award from US HUPO!
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US HUPO - Computational Proteomics Award
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Congratulations to Mike MacCoss on receiving the Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award from US HUPO!
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US HUPO - Distinguished Contribution Award
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November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Congratulations to Winston Dredge on being awarded a WRF Postdoctoral Fellowship!
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Jay Shendure elected to National Academy of Medicine
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Jay Shendure elected to National Academy of Medicine - UW Medicine | Newsroom
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October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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CellCover Defines Marker Gene Panels Capturing Developmental Progression in Neocortical Neural Stem Cell Identity
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October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Mechanisms underlying thermally induced growth plasticity in juvenile Pacific halibut
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October 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Epithelial competition determines gene therapy potential to suppress Fanconi Anemia oral cancer risk
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Epithelial competition determines gene therapy potential to suppress Fanconi Anemia oral cancer risk
Author summary We investigated factors influencing the success of oral mucosal gene therapy for Fanconi Anemia (FA), a genetic syndrome marked by DNA repair defects in conjunction with a heightened ri...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Registration is now open for the Mutational Scanning Symposium!!
25-27 March 2026
Melbourne, Australia
Matt Hurles (Wellcome Sanger) and Maitreya Dunham (University of Washington)
Deadline for abstract submissions: 2 November 2025.
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MSS26
Mutational Scanning Symposium 2026, 25-27 March, Melbourne
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September 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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🧬 How fast do humans mutate?
Our groundbreaking study tracks DNA changes across 4 generations to reveal the pace of human evolution revealing insights into our genetic legacy. Watch now 👉 youtu.be/6TTCZdZd4Y4
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How quickly do humans mutate? Four generations help answer the question
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September 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Congratulations to Zukai Liu and Bria Metzger on being awarded Parker Travel Awards for best poster at the 2025 department retreat!
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Multiplex and multimodal mapping of variant effects in secreted proteins via MultiSTEP
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Multiplex and multimodal mapping of variant effects in secreted proteins via MultiSTEP - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Multiplexed assays of variant effect can resolve clinical variants but are incompatible with secreted proteins. Here Popp et al. develop MultiSTEP, a generalizable surface-tethering method to assess v...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Congratulations to Olivia Waltner on being awarded the Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship!
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae
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Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae
The constraints that govern the evolution of gene expression patterns across development remain unclear. Single-cell RNA sequencing can detail these constraints by systematically profiling homologous ...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Accelerating Biomolecular Modeling with AtomWorks and RF3
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Accelerating Biomolecular Modeling with AtomWorks and RF3
Deep learning methods trained on protein structure databases have revolutionized biomolecular structure prediction, but developing and training new models remains a considerable challenge. To facilita...
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August 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Congratulations to Jenny Nathans on being awarded an NRSA Fellowship!
August 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Congratulations to Caleb Carr on being awarded an NRSA Fellowship!
July 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes
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Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - PubMed
Diverse sets of complete human genomes are required to construct a pangenome reference and to understand the extent of complex structural variation. Here we sequence 65 diverse human genomes and build...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Using >130 human & 12 primate haplotypes, we reconstruct the chromosome 22q11.2 evolution to identify haplotype structures linked to deletions or inversions, explaining the lower prevalence of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in individuals of African descent. @hhmi.org @uwgenome.bsky.social
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July 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Congratulations to Maggie Russell on receiving the UW Graduate School's Distinguished Dissertation Award!
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Congratulations to Leah Anderson on winning the best talk award at the Pacific Northwest Yeast Club meeting!
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PNWYC 2025 Meeting A day for yeast labs in the Pacific Northwest to get together and share research, outreach, teaching, and more! June 20th, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada Michael Smith Laboratories, Uni...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Congratulations to Alison Feder on receiving the SMBE 2025 Early-Career Excellence Award!
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SMBE 2025 Faculty Award Winners
SMBE is delighted to announce our 2025 Faculty Award Winners! Early-Career Excellence Award winner: Alison Feder Alison Feder is an Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washingt...
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June 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Congratulations to Leah Anderson and Elliott Swanson on receiving the Sonia Ting Travel Award!
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Gene clusters linked to insulin resistance identified in a genome-wide study of the Taiwan Biobank population
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Gene clusters linked to insulin resistance identified in a genome-wide study of the Taiwan Biobank population - Nature Communications
Understanding genetic drivers of insulin resistance is crucial for addressing metabolic disorders. Here, the authors show associations involving GCKR, MLXIPL, APOA5, and APOC1, highlighting adipose ti...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM