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Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine Hiring faculty&postdocs: https://genetics.wustl.edu/positions/
Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Dec. 4 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Jerry Workman, PhD, presents “Protein complexes that modify chromatin for transcription, RNA processing and metabolism”, hosted by Gary Stormo, PhD.
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 20 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Qiongshi Lu, PhD, presents “The blurred line between genes and environments: Insights from GWAS of family members’ phenotypes”, hosted by Peter Jin, PhD
17.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to graduate student Kia Barclay in the Tristan Li Lab on being selected as a Graduate Student Recipient of the 2025 Provost’s Research Excellence Award, a prestigious university-wide honor recognizing outstanding research achievement. genetics.wustl.edu/genetics-gra...
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 13 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Piali Sengupta, PhD, presents “Living in a toxic world: Interoceptive mechanisms of salt-sensing in C. elegans”, hosted by Susan Dutcher, PhD.
10.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Nov. 6 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Jun Wu, PhD @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social presents “Curious Cases of Pluripotent Stem Cell Adaptations”, hosted by Xiaoxia Cui, PhD
04.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for visiting St. Louis @crumplab.bsky.social ! Learned a lot from the seminar and discussion. 🐟 🧬
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WashU research news; excited to share our new paper on Chromosome 9p Syndromes 🧬 Hope you take the time to read it. Here is the link:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Join us today in Connor Auditorium at 12pm when Evan Eichler, PhD, presents “Complete genomes and complex structural variation”, hosted by Tychele Turner, PhD.
23.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join @washugenetics.bsky.social TODAY at 12pm in Connor
Auditorium when Guangyong Peng, MD, PhD, presents “Senescent T Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment: Emerging Challenges for Immunotherapy”, hosted by Tristan Li, PhD.
Congratulations to Michael Meers, PhD, on receiving the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in support of his research developing new tools to guide stem cell differentiation. A well-deserved recognition of his innovative work.
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Join WashU Genetics @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday Oct. 9 at 12pm in Connor Auditorium when Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social, PhD, presents “Mapping from sequence to function in intrinsically disordered regions”, hosted by @genologos.bsky.social and @mpmeers.bsky.social!
06.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join @washugenetics.bsky.social next Thursday Oct.2@12pm in Connor Auditorium for the Precision Medicine Pathway Keynote Address when Hal Dietz, MD, presents “Leveraging Nature’s Success: Lessons from Modifiers of Vascular Connective Tissue Disorders”, hosted by Tim Schedl, PhD & Emma Casey
26.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We published a detailed protocol for our Plate-CUT&Tag method on @protocolsio.bsky.social to accompany our recent preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) give it a try! Feedback welcome! dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjed5wgk5/v1
22.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
The Dept. of Genetics hosted the 2nd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture with an inspiring talk by Tim Hughes, PhD. We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Stormo Fellow—congratulations to PhD student Jennie Yao!
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social TODAY @ 12pm CST in Connor Auditorium for the 2nd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture when Timothy Hughes, PhD, presents “Codebook: sequence specificity of human transcription factors”.
18.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited to share our new review in Trends in Genetics! Grateful for a great collaboration with co-first author Mitchell Grinwald!
15.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Another fantastic line-up of speakers at the WashU Genetics Seminar Series 2025-2026! 👇Visit our website for the full seminar schedule: genetics.wustl.edu/events/categ...
08.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join WashUGenetics Today @ 12pm CST in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Kathleen Collins presents “Harnessing R2 Retrotransposon Machinery and RNA-Only Delivery for Site-Specific Safe-Harbor Transgene Addition to the Human Genome”, hosted by Dr. Xiaoxia Cui
04.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What if doing something poorly could lead to something great?
Rob Mitra, @washugenetics.bsky.social, dives into the evolution of genome tech, short-read sequencing, and how his lab is fighting rising drug costs with innovation. 🧪🧬💻 #STS
📺 Watch the keynote: youtu.be/C8U5WDA9ri4
#genomics #Biotech
Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher Wesley Saintilnord @wesaint.bsky.social on being selected as a #JCCFellow!
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Welcome @creminslab.bsky.social!
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Genomic Technologies Open Science Day on June 9. The event will be held at the Eric. P. Newman Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis and broadcast live online. Registration is free at https://www.jax.org/scienceday25/
📅 June 9 - Genomic Technologies Open Science Day at @washu.bsky.social and online
www.jax.org/scienceday25
Register for Free by:
May 30: In-Person
June 8: Virtual
Learn how emerging tech is used to manipulate RNA & DNA, study genome function and structure, and navigate multi-omic analysis 🧪👩🔬🧬🖥️
Thank you @erikaberas.bsky.social for including me in this in depth @planetmoney.bsky.social piece on the mechanics of research funding at universities—I give it a 👍🏻👌👏👨🔬 emoji 🙃 www.npr.org/2025/05/28/1...
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 29, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Wenyi Wang presents “Deciphering tumor heterogeneity for benefits from immunotherapy in cancer”, hosted by Dr. Ting Wang
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social this Thursday (May. 22, 12pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Volker Neugebauer presents “Neuroplastic changes in the amygdala in the transition to chronic pain”, hosted by Dr. Guoyan Zhao
19.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another fantastic Donald C. Shreffler lecture at the Department of Genetics! This year the lecture features Dr. Harmit Malik who studies genetic conflict, the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change.
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Join @washugenetics.bsky.social Shreffler Lecture next Tuesday (May. 13, 4pm CST) in Connor Auditorium when Dr. Harmit Malik presents “Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins”, hosted by Dr. Ting Wang
09.05.2025 20:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great event on June 9 at WashU Medicine with our own Dr. Rob Mitra delivering the keynote address! Be sure to register to attend!
09.05.2025 20:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Major congratulations to our fearless leader and team captain Susan Dutcher @dutcherlab.bsky.social for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🙌
Another big win for #cilia biology!!
Had a fantastic time learning from the brightest minds in systems immunology at #cshlsysimm last month with
@cshlmeetings.bsky.social. Grateful to @washugenetics.bsky.social for supporting my travel!
