In an article by Kim Krieger titled "The Fortunate Ones?", you can read about why the horseshoe crab's blood is so valuable. You can also find out where you can go to see PhD student Kate Castellano feeding horseshoe crabs in a tank decorated like the town of Bikini Bottom.  Dr. Rachel O'Neill, key faculty in the Health Care Genetics program provides the story as to why “Weird animals" are valuable models to  understand species diversity and adaptation to Earth’s diverse environments.  https://magazine.uconn.edu/2019/06/05/the-fortunate-ones/

Erin Young hopes that one day it won’t be interesting to her daughters that their mother is a scientist.

Young is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing and in UConn Health’s Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, as well as the assistant director of UConn’s Center for Advancement in Managing Pain (CAMP).

In addition to researching the ways genetics impact the ways people feel pain – and trying to pinpoint gene expressions that could lead to precision treatments – Young is outspoken about what it’s like to be a woman in STEM and in academia, and how things are changing for women in that world and in society at large.

She recently sat down with UConn 360’s Julie Bartucca for a wide-ranging discussion about her research, the importance of research communication, and why she can’t wait for people to stop asking about what it’s like to be a woman in her field.

https://today.uconn.edu/2019/01/looking-day-woman-stem-wont-issue/?utm_source=faculty-staff-daily-digest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily 

Agilent Technologies sponsored a week-long training on the Oligonucleotide Array-Based CGH for Genomic DNA Analysis for PSM HCG students Monday August 20- Friday August 24th.  AH 5720: 08 Microarray Cytogenetics.  The training took place in the Center for Genome Innovation teaching laboratory within the Institute for Systems Genomics. Brigette and Jennifer were amazing instructors and students did a great job!

Course Description: Theory and practice of diagnostic laboratory methodologies and genomic data analyses for the clinical scientist. Sections are taught in a series of modules and include clinical case scenarios and analyses. With a change of content, this course may be repeated for credit.

 

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Section 3:

Genomics Data in the Clinical Lab: Dr. Cara Statz, Clinical Analyst, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

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An introduction to bioinformatics for the design and analysis of diagnostic genetic tests. Topics covered include primer design and specificity verification, sequence alignments, interpretation of e-values, and use of various tracks within alignment programs to identify relevant clinical information. Students will search appropriate databases for the identification of gene mutations and/or variations identified during testing and/or associated with a phenotype or disease. Databases examined will include Gene Tests, OMIM, Mitelman, CGAP, PubMed, NCBI, DAVID, UCSC genome browser, RepeatMasker, HapMap, and others as appropriate. Clinical cases will be provided for the application of bioinformatics-associated sciences and technologies to retrieve and analyze biological literature and data. Clinical reporting of case data will be used to develop written communication of scientific information to patients and physicians. Email judy.brown@uconn.edu for course permission #

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