Trainee

Trainee Author: Sureni Mullegama, PhD ABMGG Clinical Molecular Genetics Fellow University of California, Los Angeles (Photo courtesy Dr. Mullegama) Sureni Mullegama et al. Clinical and Molecular Aspects of MBD5-Associated Neurocevelopmental Disorder (MAND). European Journal of Human Genetics, 24, 1235-1243, (2016). This review provides a comprehensive description of the current state of research for a group of disorders recently... Read More

ASHG trainee newsletter writer Irene Park interviewed Chris Gunter, PhD, Director of Communications Operations at the Marcus Autism Center and Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Gunter shared her experiences in bringing science to the public. February 2017 Although science affects many aspects of people’s... Read More

ASHG trainee newsletter writer Ryan Collins interviewed Beryl Cummings, member of the ASHG Program Committee, 2016 ASHG Charles J. Epstein Predoctoral Award Recipient, and PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard Medical School (HMS). February 2017 ASHG: Can you give us a brief overview of your scientific background? Ms. Cummings: I began my... Read More

Trainee Author: Tanya Phung PhD Student University of California, Los Angeles (Photo courtesy Ms. Phung) Tanya Phung et al. Determining the Effect of Natural Selection on Linked Neutral Divergence across Species. PLoS Genetics, 12(8): e1006199 (2016). This paper provides an interesting look at the effect of natural selection on neutral variation and how that could affect interpretations of... Read More

Robert Turner Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Dr. McCarthy, a physician-scientist and human geneticist, has presented several invited sessions on the genetics of type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. Chris Nowak, ASHG: How do you keep on top of the rapidly expanding bioinformatics field and... Read More