Department Mentoring Policies Updated

December 14, 2016

The Department of Genetics mentoring policies for faculty and postdoctoral fellows and the Faculty Activity Report Form have been updated and can be found here. Fixed-term faculty mentoring sessions will be conducted three months prior to annual reappointment dates and the postdoc mentoring committee will meet quarterly.

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Genetics Faculty Publications for Nov 25 – Dec 9

December 14, 2016

Over the last few weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published eight manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. Long-term exercise in mice has sex-dependent benefits on body composition and metabolism during aging. McMullan RC, Kelly SA, Hua K, Buckley BK, Faber JE, Pardo-Manuel de … Read more

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Genetics Faculty Publications for Nov 1 – Nov 25, 2016

November 30, 2016

During the month of November, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published eight manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. Liu C, Marioni RE, Hedman ÅK, Pfeiffer L, Tsai PC, Reynolds LM, Just AC, Duan Q, Boer CG, Tanaka … Read more

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Genetics Faculty Publications for Oct 15 – Nov 4, 2016

November 7, 2016

During the last three weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published 21 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A survey of current practices for genomic sequencing test interpretation and reporting processes in US laboratories. O’Daniel JM, McLaughlin HM, Amendola LM, Bale SJ, Berg JS, … Read more

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Genetics Faculty Publications for Sept 25 – Oct 23

October 24, 2016

During the last thirty days, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. During the last thirty days, Genetics faculty have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics, including: impact of ovariectomy on anxiety-like behavior in mice; … Read more

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Genetics Faculty Publications for Sept 18 – Oct 1, 2016

October 3, 2016

During the last two weeks of September, Genetics faculty members published seven manuscripts focused in multiple areas, including genomic terminology, clinical genomics, genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease, polygenic risk for schizophrenia, genetics of tobacco use, potential function of nuclear survival motor neuron complex and a … Read more

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Michael I. Love, Dr. rer. nat., Appointed Assistant Professor in Department of Biostatistics with Joint Appointment in Department of Genetics

September 22, 2016

The research in his lab is focused on statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. Michael I. Love, Dr. rer. nat Dr. Love has a primary appointment in Biostatistics and a joint appointment in Genetics. After receiving his M.S. in … Read more

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Whitmire and Lemon labs published in Science

September 19, 2016

Jason Whitmire, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Stanley Lemon, MD, Professor in the Department of Medicine, were senior authors on a paper titled “MAVS-dependent host species range and pathogenicity of human hepatitis A virus” published in the journal Science. Jason Whitmire, PhD, and Stanley Lemon, MD … Read more

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Perou and collaborators published in Disease Models and Mechanisms

September 15, 2016

Charles Perou, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology was corresponding author of a study that focused on finding possible drug targets in triple-negative breast cancers. Charles Perou, PhD The paper, titled “Genomic Profiling of Murine Mammary Tumors … Read more

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Sethupathy laboratory published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

September 15, 2016

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, was corresponding author of a study that investigated the role of microRNAs in the mediation of intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) homeostasis. Praveen Sethupathy, PhD Bailey Peck, PhD, first author on the paper The paper titled “miR-30 Family Controls Proliferation … Read more

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