Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 20 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Qiongshi Lu, PhD, presents “The blurred line between genes and environments: Insights from GWAS of family members’ phenotypes”, hosted by Peter Jin, PhD

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 13 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Piali Sengupta, PhD, presents “Living in a toxic world: Interoceptive mechanisms of salt-sensing in C. elegans”, hosted by Susan Dutcher, PhD.

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 6 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Jun Wu, PhD @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social presents “Curious Cases of Pluripotent Stem Cell Adaptations”, hosted by Xiaoxia Cui, PhD

Join us today in Connor Auditorium at 12pm when Evan Eichler, PhD, presents “Complete genomes and complex structural variation”, hosted by Tychele Turner, PhD.

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social TODAY at 12pm in Connor
Auditorium when Guangyong Peng, MD, PhD, presents “Senescent T Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment: Emerging Challenges for Immunotherapy”, hosted by Tristan Li, PhD.

Join WashU Genetics @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Oct. 9 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social, PhD, presents “Mapping from sequence to function in intrinsically disordered regions”, hosted by @genologos.bsky.social and @mpmeers.bsky.social!

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social next Thursday Oct.2@12pm in Connor Auditorium for the Precision Medicine Pathway Keynote Address when Hal Dietz, MD, presents “Leveraging Nature’s Success: Lessons from Modifiers of Vascular Connective Tissue Disorders”, hosted by Tim Schedl, PhD & Emma Casey

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social TODAY @ 12pm CST in Connor Auditorium for the 2nd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture when Timothy Hughes, PhD, presents “Codebook: sequence specificity of human transcription factors”.

Another fantastic line-up of speakers at the WashU Genetics Seminar Series 2025-2026! 👇Visit our website for the full seminar schedule: genetics.wustl.edu/events/categ...

Join WashUGenetics Today @ 12pm CST in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Kathleen Collins presents “Harnessing R2 Retrotransposon Machinery and RNA-Only Delivery for Site-Specific Safe-Harbor Transgene Addition to the Human Genome”, hosted by Dr. Xiaoxia Cui

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 29, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Wenyi Wang presents “Deciphering tumor heterogeneity for benefits from immunotherapy in cancer”, hosted by Dr. Ting Wang

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 22, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Volker Neugebauer presents “Neuroplastic changes in the amygdala in the transition to chronic pain”, hosted by Dr. Guoyan Zhao

Another fantastic Donald C. Shreffler lecture at the Department of Genetics! This year the lecture features Dr. Harmit Malik who studies genetic conflict, the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change.

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social Shreffler Lecture next Tuesday (May. 13, 4pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Harmit Malik presents “Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins”, hosted by Dr. Ting Wang

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 8, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Elizabeth Heller presents “Epigenetic editing for the study of addiction”, hosted by Dr. Gabor Egervari!

Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 1st, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Dan Arking @arking.bsky.social presents “Mitochondrial Genetic Variation and Aging-related Disease”, hosted by Dr. Peter Jin @jinlab.bsky.social

That’s a wrap! We hope you enjoyed our 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium as much as we did! Thank you to all the speakers, students, faculty and staff who attended the event. Here’s to more amazing years at the Department of Genetics at WashU Medicine!