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April 2008Our lab is awarded an HFSP Young Investigator Research Grant Award, for a joint project with the Spitz Lab, EMBL.Edward Chuong is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for a proposal involving joint work between our lab and the Baker Lab, Stanford. February 2008Gill is chosen to be an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.January 2008Aaron Wenger, an SGF fellow, joins the lab.December 2007Gill is featured in Genome Technology magazine's Tomorrow's Principal Investigators (scanned article).Shoa Clarke is awarded an HHMI Gilliam graduate fellowship. October 2007Gill is awarded an Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Junior Faculty Grant.September 2007A Nature Editorial uses our work to make the case that better understanding of our own genome will come from generating sequence data from diverse organisms.June 2007Cory McLean is awarded a Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship.Abraham Bassan, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, joins our lab and David Kingsley's lab. Gill's associative memory is featured in the New York Times. April 2007We survey the whole human genome, showing that in fact "selfish DNA" (transposons) has contributed thousands of novel functional regions during human evolution. See Scientific American, Science, Wired, Science Daily, New Scientist and PNAS.[Lowe, Bejerano & Haussler, PNAS, 104:8005-8010, 2007] August 2006Add a twist to the tools used to find the ultraconserved elements, and you obtain the fastest evolving sequences in the human genome (near-ultraconserved in other mammals, changed in human alone). Much press.[Pollard et al., PLoS Genetics, 2:e168, 2006] April 2006An ancient transposon ("selfish gene") is shown, unexpectedly, to have given birth to an ultraconserved element. See HHMI report, Nobel Intent, Carl Zimmer, El Pais.[Bejerano et al., Nature, 441:87-90, 2006] May 2004The discovery of Ultraconserved Elements, genomic regions perfectly and inexplicably conserved between human and other mammals, is first published. Media coverage: Nature, Nature Reviews Genetics, BBC, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, Bio-IT World, and a short ScienCentral news video.[Bejerano et al., Science, 304:1321-1325, 2004] |
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