WashU Medicine Genetics

Join @WashUGenetics this Thursday April. 9 at Noon in Moore Auditorium when Qiang Chang, PhD presents, “MeCP2, Astrocytes, Rett syndrome, and Beyond”, hosted by Guoyan Zhao, PhD @gzhao11 !

Congrats to Dr. Michael Province on being named a 2026 Dean’s Impact Award recipient! His leadership of the Long Life Family Study and decades of groundbreaking genetics research have shaped our understanding of longevity and advanced science globally. faculty.med.wustl.edu/people/michael…

Check out our latest from @eperiandri in @SfNJournals eNeuro, showing brain region- and extent of exposure-specific effects of alcohol on the brain epigenome and transcriptome. Congratulations to all! eneuro.org/content/early/…

Join @WashUGenetics this Thursday April. 2 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Andy Groves, PhD presents, “Can we restore hearing by reprogramming the cochlea?”, hosted by Susan Dutcher, PhD!

We are recruiting a postdoc or gap-year research assistant. Details are in the link below. Seeking candidates interested in cis-regulatory mechanisms and transcriptional machinery. Please RT! Postdoc wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/W… Research Assistant (Gap Year) wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/W…

Join @WashUGenetics this Thursday March. 26 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD presents, “Designing therapies for glioblastoma based on cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic control mechanisms”, hosted by Guoyan Zhao, PhD @gzhao11!

Thrilled to share that the @WashUGenetics Department has been ranked #5 in the nation for NIH funding in 2025! This achievement reflects the strength of our faculty, staff and trainees and their dedication to innovative scientific discovery. Read more: genetics.wustl.edu/washu-medicine…

Join @WashUGenetics this Thursday March. 19 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Christina Stallings, PhD presents, “Molecular determinants of tuberculosis disease outcomes”, hosted by Susan Dutcher, PhD!

Please join us for a special seminar this Friday in Couch 6001B when Carol Wise, PhD presents, “Translating Genetic Discovery into Medicine for Scoliosis”, hosted by Nancy Saccone, PhD & Aki Ushiki, PhD @AkiUshiki

Join us TODAY at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Shankar Mukherji, PhD presents, “Fluctuations and order in systems-level organelle biogenesis”!

Join @WashUGenetics this Thursday March. 12 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Shankar Mukherji, PhD presents, “Fluctuations and order in systems-level organelle biogenesis”, hosted by Susan Dutcher, PhD!

Join @WashUGenetics next Monday March. 9 at Noon in EPNEC Seminar Room B when Yang Xie, MD, PhD presents, “Data Science and AI in Precision Health”, hosted by Ting Wang, PhD @twang5 !

Thank you so much Dr. Yin Shen @YinShenLab for delivering a wonderful talk in our @WashUGenetics seminar series! Very exciting to learn how to high-throughout interpret genetic risk variant at single cell resolution!

Join us TODAY at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Yin Shen, PhD @YinShenLab presents, “Characterizing cis-regulatory elements and genetic variants underlying human brain development and disease”!

Outreach note from @TNTurnerLab. One part of our research work since joining the faculty at @WashUGenetics has been building new and original genomics software out of necessity. Over ~7 years, driven by our interests in my research area of neurodevelopmental disorders, we have developed a steady stream of state of the art new original tools, and some now also apply to other phenotypes. Encouraged by other research scientists and to make this work more accessible for the community, I am releasing our first white paper: CNPI (zenodo.org/records/188421…) #GenomicsWhitePapers #genomics #computation #bioinformatics

New publication in @CellReports co-authored by @GaborEgervari explains how ketogenic diets prevent seizures! Read more: medicine.washu.edu/news/study-exp…

Join @WashUGenetics next Thursday March. 5 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Yin Shen, PhD @YinShenLab presents, “Characterizing cis-regulatory elements and genetic variants underlying human brain development and disease”, hosted by Yang Li, Phd @YangEricLi&Ting Wang, PhD @twang5

Congratulations to @gzhao11 on delivering the Dutcher Tenure Recognition Seminar and celebrating her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! genetics.wustl.edu/guoyan-zhao-ph…

Acetate potentiates long-term memory formation and spatial recognition in female mice by increasing #acetylation of the histone H2A.Z and the expression of learning-associated genes, shows a new analysis. @eperiandri @WashUGenetics @GaborEgervari scim.ag/4aJU1c4

Proud to share our latest work in @scisignal where we show that acetate regulates chromatin and gene expression in the brain with remarkable specificity, resulting in enhanced memory. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…