Department Retreat 2015 gallery posted
New images for the department retreat 2015 up in park city have been posted online. http://www.genetics.utah.edu/department-retreat-2015/
Quinlan article in Nature
GQT: software for querying millions of genomes. The paper is Efficient genotype compression and analysis of large genetic-variation data sets Link to paper is here.
Postdoctoral position
Postdoctoral position – Chow Laboratory – University of Utah The Chow Lab in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City is recruiting postdoctoral research associates. Please follow the link for more information
Mario Capecchi name to National Academy of Medicine
Two scientists from the University of Utah have been named to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine: geneticist Mario R. Capecchi and Vivian S. Lee, dean of the medical school. Capecchi and Lee are among 70 new U.S. members and 10 non-U.S. members elected in the class of 2015, the academy announced this week. They…
Carl Thummel Featured in Healthscience Article
Science is the pursuit of truth. What could be more clear-cut than that? Yet for today’s scientists, that search can be a winding, unsettling path through a constantly evolving landscape. Funding constraints, new trends and a growing emphasis on translation has investigators worrying there may be no place for them when the ground stops shaking.…
1000 Genomes Project reveals global insights into human genetic variation
A global reference for human genetic variation The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of individuals from multiple populations. Here we report completion of the project, having reconstructed the genomes of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations using a…
UStar Genetic Discovery News
An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes Structural variants are implicated in numerous diseases and make up the majority of varying nucleotides among human genomes. Here we describe an integrated set of eight structural variant classes comprising both balanced and unbalanced variants, which we constructed using short-read DNA sequencing data and statistically…
Mario Capecchi Recognized With AACR Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Award
PHILADELPHIA — Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, will be honored for his tremendous scientific contributions, which have had a profound impact on the understanding of cancer, including his groundbreaking work in the development of gene targeting technology, with the 12th annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research at the…
Gabrielle Kardon and colleagues Featured in news Articles
Please join me in congratulating Gab Kardon and colleagues on their beautiful work on diaphragm development published last week in Nature Genetics and highighted today in the New York Times by Carl Zimmer: New York Times Nature Genetics
Matt Barber and Nels Elde published new article in Science
Matt Barber and Dr. Nels Elde got a paper published in Science, called “Escape from bacterial iron piracy through rapid evolution of transferrin” visit the link for the article. NYTimes Article featuring research from the article.