Human Genetics | Department of Biology
Michael attended the annual conference of the American Society of Hematology in Orlando and gave a talk about his latest work using phylogenetic methods to uncover surprising examples of recurrent somatic evolution during hematopoiesis. Check out his abstract, published in Blood.
Rajiv, Arjun, and Margaret attended the American Society of Human Genetics Conference in Boston. Arjun and Rajiv presented posters, and Margaret presented a talk about her work using long-read RNA-seq to study isoform diversity across global human populations.
Sara, Michael, and Rajiv were featured for a fraction of a second in a video celebrating the 150th anniversary of Johns Hopkins University. See if you can find us chatting with President Daniels!
We had our annual lab retreat at the new JHU Bloomberg Center building in Washington, D.C. We enjoyed some good science, as well as good food and views of the city.
Sara Carioscia gave her public thesis defense talk describing her research investigating mechanisms and genetic influences on the accuracy of chromosome segregation during the formation of human eggs and sperm. Her research helped uncover how common genetic variation in maternal genome influences risk of chromosome abnormalities that underlie pregnancy loss. Congrats to Dr. Carioscia!
Joshua Bauman joins the McCoy lab as a PhD student from the CMDB program. Welcome Josh!
Sara and Michael attended the Mutations in Time and Space conference at the Broad Institute in Boston. Michael presented a poster about the application of Bayesian phylogenetic methods for studying complex histories of somatic evolution. Sara gave a prize-winning talk about her work studying the genetic basis of aneuploidy and recombination!
Rajiv and Arjun attended back-to-back meetings of the Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society (PGDIS) and Origins of Aneuploidy Research Consortium (OARC) in Leuven, Belgium. Rajiv presented at PGDIS and Arjun presented at OARC about the lab’s research using data from in vitro fertilized human embryos to study the genetic basis of aneuploidy and recombination.
Our lab participated in the JHU Chromatin and Chromosomes Workshop hosted by the BDP Epigenome Sciences Cluster. Sara gave a talk about her work investigating the genetic basis of variation in risk for embryonic aneuploidy.
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