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Jason Whitmire, PhD (Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Microbiology & Immunology), was awarded a Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award by the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity of the Department of Defense (DoD).

Ms. Brea Hampton, a GMB curriculum student and member of the Department of Genetics, has been awarded an F99/K00 transition award from the National Institute of Aging (NIA).

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 9 papers during August 22nd 鈥� September 4th 2021.   SnapHiC: a computational pipeline to identify chromatin loops from single-cell Hi-C data.聽 Yu M, Abnousi A, Zhang Y, Li G, Lee L, Chen Z, Fang R, Lagler TM, Yang Y, Wen...

Jim Crowley, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, was awarded a new U01 titled 鈥淭rans-ancestry genomic analysis of obsessive-compulsive disorder鈥� from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Dr. Karl Shpargel (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a new R01 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) for his project titled 鈥淓nhancer activation mechanisms in cranial neural crest osteoblast differentiation鈥�.

Drs. Keriayn Smith (Assistant Professor, Genetics) and Jeremy Wang (Assistant Professor, Genetics) were each awarded $10K grants from the 黑料网 SOM Office of Research as part of the COVID-19 Supplemental Funding program.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 18 papers during August 8th 鈥� 21st, 2021.

Dr. Greg Smith was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective August 12, 2021.

The laboratory of Dr. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor, Genetics and Neuroscience Center) published a paper titled 鈥淏rain-trait-associated variants impact cell-type specific gene regulation during neurogenesis鈥� in the American Journal of Human Genetics (19 Aug 2021 issue).

The MMRRC at 黑料网, led by Dr. Terry Magnuson (Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Genetics), was awarded a $500,000 supplement from the NIH to develop and validate two new animal model resources to support research activities related to pathogenic coronaviruses (including SARS-CoV2).