News

March/April 2025: HG Publications

Lots of science to report!

First Yang lab publication!

Check it out...

NPJ Genomic Medicine article about the Utah NeoSeq Project

Work from the Murtaugh, Chow, Quinlan, Marth, and Yandell labs...

Human Genetics BBQ

Save the Date! Friday afternoon, June 6, 2025

HG Student News: Presentation & Award at ACMG Conference

Isabelle Cooperstein (Marth lab) ...

Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics Symposium

Coming this fall! • Save the Date: September 18-19, 2025 • Seeking speaker nominations! Check out the link...

Upcoming Defenses - Save the Dates

Next up: Travis Tu'ifua (Chow lab)...

Congratulations! Dissertation Awards for computational projects

Holly Thorpe, Jason Kunisaki, and Bennet Peterson...

HG student news

Leffler lab grad student Helena Hopson & summer student/lab technician Anayansi Ramirez...

HG Postdoc news

HG Postdocs got involved with teaching...

New Research Article in Science

Check it out! The Murtaugh lab and collaborators...

Bennet Peterson PhD Defense - Congrats!

Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 @ 12:00 PM Location: DBMI & Zoom

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Let's celebrate our successes

Jan 2025: Papers, preprints, and more

Recent news items from HG!

Upcoming: Faculty Recruiting events

Join us!

Save the Date! HG Department Retreat Oct 23-24, 2025

Science - food - get to know your colleagues

Upcoming: PhD Student Recruiting events

Starting on Friday, Jan 17, everyone is invited to attend upcoming recruiting events. Have dinner, talk science, and meet prospective students!

Mentorship Training Workshop

Many Human Genetics faculty members participated...

The Great HG Bake Off

Coming up! Thursday, Dec 19, 2-4 PM in EIHG 6400 • Jingle • Mingle • Baking contest • White elephant gift exchange

Search open for multiple tenure track faculty positions in Department of Human Genetics!

HG Research Highlight: Coronavirus evolution

Funding award: Mark Yandell, Genomics-enabled Learning Health System Network

Xiaoxu Yang joins HG as the newest Assistant Professor

Funding award: Clement Chow, SynGAP Research Fund

HG Scientific Image & Data Visualization Competition - The Winners!

Human Genetics Department Retreat - photos!

Nathan Burns successfully defends his PhD!

Aaron Quinlan appointed as new Chair of Human Genetics!

John Chamberlin defends his PhD!

Congrats to all our recent PhDs!

Jerry Duran defends his PhD

Melissa Bujnis successfully defends her PhD!

Carl & Suzi enjoy retirement!

Emma James PhD Defense!

HG Faculty Suzi Mansour and Carl Thummel retire

Marina Venero Galanternik teaching at MBL Embryology class

Gage Black PhD Defense!

Gage Black successfully defends his PhD!

Congrats to Sarah Lucas on her PhD defense!

Sarah Lucas defends her PhD

Congrats to Paige E Haffener on her PhD defense!

Congrats to Dr. Haffener!

Justin Bosch joins Human Genetics faculty

Human Genetics welcomes its new faculty member!