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Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Christopher Shore

Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Christopher Shore

Genetic effects on the skin methylome in healthy older twins Position: PhD Student, King’s College London ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Christopher Shore: My research investigates the regulatory genomics underlying ageing processes in skin. In particular, I am interested in the complex dynamics between epigenetic modifications, alternative... Read More

Elizabeth Plender, BS/BA

Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Elizabeth Plender, BS/BA

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

Lap Sum Chan, MS

Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Lap Sum Chan, MS, PhD

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