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Dec 11, 2024

Mentorship Training Workshop

Many Human Genetics faculty members participated...

Dec 10, 2024

The Great HG Bake Off

Coming up! Thursday, Dec 19, 2-4 PM in EIHG 6400 • Jingle • Mingle • Baking contest • White elephant gift exchange

Dec 1, 2024

Search open for multiple tenure track faculty positions in Department of Human Genetics!

Nov 19, 2024

HG Research Highlight: Coronavirus evolution

Nov 17, 2024

Funding award: Mark Yandell, Genomics-enabled Learning Health System Network

Nov 1, 2024

Xiaoxu Yang joins HG as the newest Assistant Professor

Oct 29, 2024

Funding award: Clement Chow, SynGAP Research Fund

Oct 21, 2024

HG Scientific Image & Data Visualization Competition - The Winners!

Oct 19, 2024

Human Genetics Department Retreat - photos!

Sep 26, 2024

Nathan Burns successfully defends his PhD!

Aug 19, 2024

Aaron Quinlan appointed as new Chair of Human Genetics!

Aug 13, 2024

John Chamberlin defends his PhD!

Jul 25, 2024

Congrats to all our recent PhDs!

Jul 25, 2024

Jerry Duran defends his PhD

Jul 15, 2024

Melissa Bujnis successfully defends her PhD!

Jul 8, 2024

Carl & Suzi enjoy retirement!

Jul 5, 2024

Emma James PhD Defense!

Jun 28, 2024

HG Faculty Suzi Mansour and Carl Thummel retire

Jun 26, 2024

Marina Venero Galanternik teaching at MBL Embryology class

Jun 12, 2024

Gage Black PhD Defense!

Gage Black successfully defends his PhD!

May 28, 2024

Congrats to Sarah Lucas on her PhD defense!

Sarah Lucas defends her PhD

May 20, 2024

Congrats to Paige E Haffener on her PhD defense!

Congrats to Dr. Haffener!

Jan 1, 2024

Justin Bosch joins Human Genetics faculty

Human Genetics welcomes its new faculty member!

Jan 26, 2023

New research: How humans lost their body hair!

Nathan Clark's lab discovered coding and noncoding regulatory regions of the mammalian genome that lead to the reduction of hair in mammals.

Jan 9, 2023

Marina Venero-Galanternik

New faculty member Marina Venero-Galanternik arrives!

Mar 9, 2021

Dr. Nels Elde featured in NYTimes article on Coronavirus

New studies underscore how coronaviruses frequently mix their genetic components

Feb 26, 2021

Genetic Collaborator May Influence Severity of the Rare Disease, NGLY1

Geneticist Clement Chow, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Human Genetics at University of Utah Health, studies NGLY1 deficiency in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Oct 14, 2020

Congrats to Dr. Nels Elde On MacArthur Foundation fellowship

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the fellowships Tuesday