The Graduate Student Research (GSR) Day took place on June 5, 2023 at UConn Health. Rachel Gilmore took third place for her poster. Nice job!
Graduate students Nagham and Rachel present posters for ISG
Two graduate students in Genetics & Genome Sciences Department presented their posters at the Institute for Systems Genomics (ISG) Networking Event. Nagham Farah and Rachel Gilmore participated in the event on November 8, 2022. Nagham won the Best Poster Award. Great job Nagham!
Rachel Gilmore presents poster at 10th Annual RNA Center Retreat
Graduate student Rachel Gilmore presented a poster at the 10th Annual RNA Center Retreat on November 4, 2022. The event took place at the O.C. Marsh Auditorium, YSB, in New Haven.
Graduate student Rachel Gilmore receives travel award for FPWR
Rachel Gilmore, PhD candidate in Genetics & Genome Sciences Department, was a travel award recipient for the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research Symposium in September 2022. Congratulations Rachel!
Graduate student Nagham Farah attends Gordon Research Conference
Nagham Farah was invited to give a talk and present a poster at the Neural Development Gordon Research conference at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. The conference took place August 7-12, 2022.
Nagham wins first place poster award at 39th GSR Day
Two new craniofacial preprints out now!
Checkout our new preprints on human craniofacial transcriptomics and the discovery of a global control region for the HOXA gene cluster. New resources are available on our data pages and at the UCSC genome browser.
Tara Yankee awarded James Taylor Foundation Scholarship
Graduate student Tara Yankee was selected as an inaugural recipient of a James Taylor Foundation scholarship. She was one of 10 students sponsored to attend the 2021 CSHL Genome Informatics meeting where she presented her work on human craniofacial gene expression dynamics.
Postdoc Kevin Child and Graduate Student Andrea Wilderman Finalists for 2021 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards
Kevin Child, PhD and Andrea Wilderman, both from the lab of Dr. Justin Cotney, were selected as finalists for the 2021 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research for the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), to be held virtually October 18-22. Dr. Child and Ms. Wilderman were selected from over 500 applicants and have been invited to give presentations on their work during the ASHG virtual meeting. Dr. Child’s research focuses on the role of alternative splicing in heart development. He will discuss his current work using Nanopore long-read sequencing to confirm the presence of novel splice variants in the human embryonic heart. Ms. Wilderman’s research centers on the use of multiple sequencing-based technologies to identify tissue-specific regulatory regions and the genes they target. Her presentation will summarize her PhD thesis research using mice to characterize a novel craniofacial superenhancer region which regulates the expression of HoxA genes and affects palate development. Finalists for the award receive complimentary registration for the conference as well as $1000. Six awardees will receive an additional $1000 and will be announced at the ASHG Meeting in October.
Congratulations Kevin and Andrea!
Nagham Khouri Farah awarded NRSA
Congratulations to Nagham who was recently awarded an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship! She will study the role of Foxp transcription factors in cerebellar development and be jointly advised by Drs. James Li and Justin Cotney.