Genetics Training Program: Annual Retreat

The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat was held Tuesday, May 25^th, 2021 virtually. We are honored to have had Dr. Thomas Glaser present the keynote lecture, "CA homeotic hotspot in the human genome."  The program will began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees and end with a small group and 1:1 discussion.

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The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat was held October 31, 2019, in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium in BSRB.  We were honored to have Dr. Robert Martienssen, Ph.D. present the keynote lecture, "Chromosomal consequences of retrotransposon control by small RNA."  The program began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees and ended with a reception and poster presentations by current and senior trainees.

Robert Martienssen, Ph.D.
Professor and HHMI Investigator
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Chromosomal Consequences of Retrotransposon Control by Small RNA"

Kathryn Saund
Department of Microbiology & Immunology - Snitkin Lab
"PreWAS: Data Preprocessing of Multiallelic Variants, Overlapping Genes, and Ancestral States for more Informative Bacterial GWAS"

Owen Funk
Department of Human Genetics - Kwan Lab
"The Role of Histone Variant H3.3 in Cortical Development"

Abigail Lamb
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - Wittkopp Lab
"Post-transcriptional Regulation of Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster: Expanding a Classic Model of Gene Regulatory Evolution"

The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat was held on October 10, 2018 in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium in BSRB.  We were honored to have Dr. Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D. present the keynote lecture.  The program began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees and ended with a reception and poster presentations by current and senior trainees.

Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Human Disease Modeling
Duke University School of Medicine
"Simple Complex Genetics"

Alyssa Kruger
Department of Human Genetics - Mueller Lab
"An X-linked Mus lineage-specific gene family is essential for male fertility and equal sex ratio"

Jason Keil
Department of Human Genetics - Kwan Lab
"Symmetric neural progenitor divisions require chromatin-mediated homologous recombination in DNA repair"

Sherilyn Grill
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - Nandakumar Lab
"Two separation-of-function isoforms of human TPP1 and a novel intragenic noncoding RNA dictate telomerase regulation in somatic and germ cells"

The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat was held on October 4, 2017 in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium in BSRB.  We were honored to have Dr. Anthony Wynshaw-Boris present the keynote lecture.  The program began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees and ended with a reception and poster presentations by current and senior trainees.

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris , M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
"Modeling human neurogenetic diseases in mice and human induced pluripotent stem cells"

Irene Park
Department of Human Genetics, Glover/Wilson Lab
"The role of transcription in mammalian CNVs"

Marcella Nidiffer 
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cortés Ortiz/Tucker Labs
"Genome-wide admixture, introgression, and reproductive isolation in a natural primate hybrid zone" 

John McCrone
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lauring Lab
"Influenza evolution within and between human hosts" 

The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat in 2016 was held on September 13th in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium in BSRB. We were honored to have Dr. Cédric Feschotte present the keynote lecture. The program began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees. A GTP faculty meeting and a reception with poster presentations by current GTP students followed the lecture.

Cédric Feschotte, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine
"Fighting fire with fire: endogenous retroviruses orchestrate the innate immune response" 

Peter Larson
Department of Human Genetics, Moran Lab
"Spliced integrated retrotransposed element (SpIRE) formation in the human genome"

Matthew Pauly
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lauring Lab
"The mutation rate and mutational bias of influenza virus" 

Beatriz Otero Jiménez
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucker Lab
"Landscape genetics: tools to understand the effects of agricultural practices on population connectivity" 

The Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat in 2015 was held on May 5th in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium in BSRB. We were honored to have Dr. Laura Landweber present the keynote lecture. The program began with 20-minute talks by three senior GTP trainees. The scientific quality and presentation of these talks were outstanding. Indeed, Dr. Landweber commented that it was gratifying to see such high level female scientists progressing through our training program. A GTP faculty meeting and a reception with poster presentations by current GTP students followed the lecture.

Laura F. Landweber, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
“RNA-mediated genome rearrangements in the ciliate Oxytricha” 

Denise Bronner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
“Bacterial infection drives Sirtuin-3 degradation via the cytosolic proteasome”

Kerry Flegel
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan 
"The NuA4 complex is required for proper cell cycle gene repression during proliferation and the transition to a post-mitotic state"

Emily Maclary
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School
“The Tsic lncRNA maintains random X-chromosome inactivation patterns”

Miriam Meisler, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
"Genetic approaches to neurological disease: 20 years of student discoveries"

Bryan J. Traynor, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institute of Aging, NIH, Bethesda
"Expanding the genetics of ALS"

Stephen Warren, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
"Fragile X syndrome: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications"

Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D.
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
"Pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics"

Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.
University of Washington School of Medicine
"Next-generation genetics and beyond"

Harmit Malik, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"Molecular arms-races involving antiviral genes in primate genomes"

Eddy Rubin, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Extreme comparative genomics: microbes to Neanderthal"