Trainee

Structural and genetic diversity in the secreted mucins MUC5AC and MUC5B Position: PhD Candidate, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington & Fred Hutch Cancer Center ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Elizabeth Plender: I study genetic variation in the mucins, a set of heterogenous loci that encode... Read More

A novel multivariable Mendelian randomization framework to disentangle highly correlated exposures with application to metabolomics Position: Postdoctoral Associate in the Pan Lab working with Professor Wei Pan, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Lap Sum Chan: My research... Read More

By Meena Radhakrishnan, MD As a writer for this Trainee Newsletter, something is always in the back of my mind: my struggles, along with my dreams and aspirations. It was in eighth grade that genetics was introduced to me in the form of Mendel’s Experiment. The simple experiment evolved my thinking into a new branch... Read More

Transcriptome prediction performance across machine learning models and diverse ancestries Position: Data Scientist II. Marcus Institute for Aging Research – Harvard Medical School ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus?  Paul Okoro: My research centers on developing and utilizing data-driven integrated bioinformatics and statistical frameworks. Specifically, I work on... Read More

Ruizhi (Vince) Duan, MS Developmental genomics of limb malformations: Allelic series in association with gene dosage effects contribute to the clinical variability Position: Ph.D. Candidate in Genetics and Genomics Program, Lupski Lab, Baylor College of Medicine ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Ruizhi: My research explores the etiology... Read More