Presented by the Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Summer 2023
Associate Professor Krishanu Saha is a leading genome engineer and co-director of the Global Observatory for Genome Editing, a group spearheading discussions around the ethics and application of human genome editing.
Dr. Justin Wolter joins the Laboratory of Genetics as an Assistant Professor. His lab studies how genomic variation affects risk and resilience in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr. Justin Wolter joins the Laboratory of Genetics as an Assistant Professor. His lab studies how genomic variation affects risk and resilience in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Mabel Minji Jung of the Bresnick Lab talks about her personal trajectory and her research on blood cancer predisposition mechanisms.

News from Around Campus
  • CGSI affiliate member Daifeng Wang discusses his lab’s new computational approach for analysis of organoids and brains.
  • “Deep proteome sequencing” , developed in the lab of CGSI member Joshua Coon offers unprecedented characterization of protein sequence variants across different people.
  • CGSI affiliate member Jason Fletcher was highlighted for his work addressing regional differences in health disparities based on where a person was born.
  • Kieran Sweeney, postdoctoral researcher in CGSI member Megan McClean’s lab, published research on how transcription factors transmit different signals and alter gene expression.
  • A showcase on CGSI affiliate member Lingjun Li’s lab highlights her lab’s research through photos.
  • Research Forward awards include a grant to develop ancient environmental DNA sequencing.
Awards & Congratulations
  • Kris Saha, CGSI affiliate and Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship.
  • CGSI affiliate member Wei Xu inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  •  Sündüz Keleş, CGSI member and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for important contributions to methods for the analysis of high-dimensional data, including results from ChiP sequencing and partial regression, and for service to the profession."  
  • CGSI affiliate member Jason Fletcher selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.
  • Congratulations to CGSI lab undergraduates on recent awards, including Hilldale Awards to Norah Paulsen in Audrey Gasch's Lab and Yixuan Wu in Qiongshi Lu's Lab and a Sophomore Research Fellowship to Katarina Aranguiz in Chris Hittinger’s lab.
Seminars and Events
Genomics Seminars
CGSI Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 pm first Thursday of the month

  • Sep.7, Michael Bassik, Stanford
  • Oct.5, Yali Dou, USC
  • Nov.2, TBD
  • Dec.7, Justin Wolter, UW Medical Genetics
Pub Corner: recent UW genomics publications
Events
UWBC Bioinformatics Resource Core (BRC) Workshops:
  • Linux Essentials, June 16
  • Intro to NGS Data Analysis, June 21
  • mRNA-seq, June 28
  • New:  Transcript-level mRNA-seq (Docker/Desktop), July 12
Fifth annual North American Mass Spectrometry Summer School July 10-13

Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting August 7-11  

Genomics Data Carpentry
  • The workshop teaches introduction to genomics data, the Unix shell, creating bioinformatics pipelines in the Unix shell, and intro to R. 
  • Info on registering will be available on the Data Science Hub’s workshop website in July. 

Fall Genomic Courses

ANS 366 – Concepts in Genomics, Peñagaricano  

Genetics 565 – Human Genetics, Werling & Schrodi 

BMI/COMP SCI 576 – Introduction to Bioinformatics, Dewey  

ONC675 – Mining Genomics Data, Dinh  

Biochem 729, Section 8 – Responsible Conduct of Research, Schwartz 

BMI775 – Computational Network Biology, Gitter & Roy 

BME 780 – Methods in Quantitative Biology, McClean & Kreeger 

NEW COURSE:  BMI 826-012 – Animal Experiments and Alternatives, Kendziorski 
This course will examine what can and cannot be gained from different classes of non-human animal experiments. Alternatives to animal testing will also be discussed in detail. The course will provide students with an understanding of the assumptions imposed by different model systems and experimental designs as well as their impact on scientific inference. Students will also become familiar with alternatives to animal experiments and methods for designing optimal experiments given a particular set of scientific objectives. 
Full Genomic Course List
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