Good news: Graduations and grad school!

Three junior trainees from the lab are heading to grad school starting in Fall 2022:

  • Genetics and genomics undergrad Cole Ingamells will be starting the M.S. Bioinformatics program at UC Berkeley.

  • UC Davis PREP scholar Tasha Mariano is starting in the Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Genetics program at Cornell University.

  • Former undergrad Aditya Sriram completed his M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington and will be starting in the Ph.D. Human Genetics program at University of Pittsburgh.

We also have farewells and graduations to celebrate:

  • IGG student Aedric Lim completed his M.S. on “3D Genome Organization in the Developing Macaque Brain” with future plans to pursue a career in genetic counseling. He is currently seeking out clinical research opportunities. Feel free to reach out to Aedric.

  • Postdoc Sierra Nishizaki completed their ARTP fellowship focused on the genetics of ASD with megalencephaly (with a preprint on the way, stay tuned!) and is currently on the job market as a Bioinformatician (see tweet for more info and feel free to reach out to Sierra).

  • Former undergrad and postbac KaeChandra Weyenberg completed her M.S. in Public Health from East Tennessee University and is now lead supervisor epidemiologist at the Tennessee Department of Health.

  • Former undergrad Dhriti Jagannathan completed her M.S. in Genetic Counseling at the University of Minnesota and is now Program Manager and General/Pediatrics Genetic Counselor at Columbia University working with the All Of Us study and eMERGE network.