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July 2009Gill is chosen as a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow.May 2009Bruce Schaar, PhD, joins to help direct the wet lab. Bruce's scientific background is a synthesis of cell and developmental biology and human genetics, with an emphasis on brain development and neural stem cells.April 2009Funding of our first NIH R-01 (Scored 122/1.6%) begins. The grant is joint with the Ahituv Lab, UCSF.A video of a recent talk by Gill is available here. March 2009Michael is awarded an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship.October 2008We show that ultraconserved element deletions almost never fix in naturally evolving populations. We also show that thousands of additional conserved non-coding genomic regions also seem to confer a fitness gain whose loss is noticeable on an evolutionary timescale. See e! Science News, Science Daily, Genome Web, 23andMe, UPI, and LiveScience.[McLean & Bejerano, Genome Research, 18:1743-1751, 2008] Dave Bristor, a veteran software engineer with Sun, joins the lab. September 2008Gill is awarded a David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship.August 2008Gill is awarded an Okawa Foundation Research Grant.June 2008Adam Adler (PhD with Howard Chang, Stanford) joins as postdoc.Michael Hiller (PhD with Rolf Backofen, Freiburg) joins as postdoc, and is awarded a fellowship from the German Research Foundation, and another from the DAAD (declined). May 2008Gill is chosen to be a Searle Scholar.Janet Jin (PhD with Tony Oro, Stanford) joins and founds the wet lab. 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 the Kingsley 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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