Events
Upcoming
Genetics & Genomics in Medicine Seminar Series
Past Events
3rd Annual Institute for Genomic Medicine Symposium - November 4th and 5th
Genetics Training Program Retreat -March 22, 2012 with Keynote Speaker Eric Lander
Institute for Genomic Medicine Annual Symposium
October 24, 2011
News
- IGM Welcomes Kelly Frazer, PhD as its New Director! Read the announcement from Dean Brenner here
- Whole Genome Sequencing in Autism Identifies Hotspots for De Novo Germline Mutation (Cell, Jonathan Sebat, PhD)
- Biomarking time: methylome modifications offer new measure of our "biological" age (Molecular Cell, Trey Ideker, PhD and Kang Zhang, MD, PhD)
- Convergent pathway revealed by divergent ALS-linked proteins FUS/TLS and TDP-43 (Nature Neuroscience, Gene Yeo, Ph.D.)
- Two teams with IGM faculty members receive NIH ENCODE grants: Bing Ren Ph.D. and Gene Yeo Ph.D. with Xiang-Dong Fu
- Gene Yeo, Ph.D. and Miles Wilkinson, Ph.D. receive funding from CIRM Basic Biol IV for stem cell research
- LIN28 Binds Messenger RNAs at GGAGA Motifs and Regulates Splicing Factor Abundance (Molecular Cell, Gene Yeo, Ph.D. & Melissa Wilbert)
- Gene Yeo and other UC scientists receive Early Transition Grant from CIRM to find molecules to rescue aberrant RNA signatures in neurodegenerative diseases
- PGC-1α Rescues Huntington's Disease Proteotoxicity by Preventing Oxidative Stress and Promoting TFEB Function (Science Translational Medicine, Albert La Spada, Ph.D. M.D.)
- Exome Sequencing Can Improve Diagnosis and Alter Patient Management (Science Translational Medicine, Joseph Gleeson, MD)
- Base-Resolution Analyses of Sequence and Parent-of-Origin Dependent DNA Methylation in the Mouse Genome (Cell 2012 Feb 17, Bing Ren, Ph.D.)
- CEP41 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and is required for tubulin glutamylation at the cilium (Nature Genetics 2012, Joseph Gleeson, M.D.)
- High Frequencies of De Novo CNVs in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia (Neuron 2011, Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D.)
- Integrative Genome-wide Analysis Reveals Cooperative Regulation of Alternative Splicing by hnRNP Proteins (Cell Reports - 16 February 2012, Gene Yeo, Ph.D.)
- Benjamin Yu, MD, Ph.D., Receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- New cellular targets for devastating neurological disorder (The Medical News, features Al La Spada, MD, PhD)
- Non-coding RNA Has Role in Inherited Neurological Disorder – And Maybe Other Brain Diseases Too (Albert LaSpada, MD, PhD)
- Long pre-mRNA depletion and RNA missplicing contribute to neuronal vulnerability from loss of TDP-43 (Gene Yeo, Ph.D.)
- Gene Yeo, Ph.D., Receives Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2011