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News
Save the date! The
6th annual CHGR retreat
will take place on Wednesday September 17th 2008 on
the 3rd floor of the Simches Research Building. We look
forward to seeing you there!
We are pleased to announce that Dr.
David Altshuler has
been promoted to full
Professor of Genetics and Medicine. Congratulations
again to him.
The CHGR is pleased to announce that
Dr. Marcy MacDonald
has been promoted
to full Professor of Neurology. A big congratulations
to her!
At last week's annual meeting of the
MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), two posters
from the Mootha Lab were
chosen as posters of distinction. Congratulations is
extended to both:
Toshimori
Kitami, Ph.D.
"Large-scale chemical dissection of mitochondrial
function"
and
Oded Shaham,
M.Sc.
"Metabolic Profiling of the Human Response to an
Oral Glucose Challenge"
Just announced: exciting Autism breakthrough!
Click
here to read more
The American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) has awarded
Dr. James Gusella the
distinction of AAAS fellow.
Database of human genetic diversity
allows identification of disease-associated genes. Second
phase of HapMap project is completed. Click
here to read more
CHGR researcher, Dr.
Jordan Smoller in the news. Click
here to read more
Congratulations goes to Matthew
Ogdie of the Sklar lab whose poster:
"Small Molecule Screening Using Gene Expression
Signals of Lithium"
was chosen as the winner at the CHGR retreat!!
Research team identifies additional
genetic risk factors for Crohn's disease. Click
here to read more
A study led by CHGR researcher, Dr.
Marsha Fearing Browning is the first
to describe the association with all categories of fatty
acid oxidation defects and the maternal liver disease
states of HELLPs syndrome. Click
here to read more
CHGR scientists investigating epigenetic phenomena discover
new pattern of methylation associated with potentially
active genes. Click
here to read more
CHGR scientists participate in new
autism genetics initiative. Click
here to read more.
Upcoming Seminars
Wednesday May
14 2008 at noon
Simches Research Building, 5th Floor
Darwin Conference Room 5.290A
John Hutchinson, Ph.D.
(Chess Lab)
"Epi-Genome Wide Association
Studies - Opportunities and Challenges"
Jessica Shea, Ph.D.
(Altshuler Lab)
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