Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.

It's been a long time coming but, my postdoc work characterizing thousands of variants in G6PD is now available! Many thanks to @maitreya.bsky.social @dougfowler.bsky.social @afrubin.bsky.social and their labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Announcing the yEvo Mutation Browser, a Shiny app for visualizing and exploring sequencing data from experimental evolution and genetic screens. This is the latest from our @yevolab.bsky.social high school teaching & research project and led by my grad student Leah. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Welcome to our new lab members, postdoc Sarah (co with @kelleyharris.bsky.social) and grad students Zanny and Megan! Very exciting!

I’m thrilled to share my first big paper is live on @nature.com SMB! I poured my heart into this project while I was a tech, and I’m so happy it’s out in the world now. Plus, how often does someone get to say they published with their two best friends? 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I passed my PhD program qualifying exam today! I am now a PhD candidate 🎉🧬

The Pacific Northwest Yeast Club is holding their annual meeting on June 20th, 2025 in beautiful Vancouver, Canada! There are only 100 spots and registration is open now: www.pnwyc.net

Congratulations to Abby McGee and Val Browning on being awarded NSF Fellowships, and to Matt Chaw, Marazzano Colon, Bria Metzger, Rachel Powell, and Catherine Sniezek on receiving honorable mention!

I am feeling very proud and grateful to have been awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! While I didn’t receive the award itself, it is so validating to be recognized at a national level as a junior trainee. I am definitely celebrating this win 🌟

Check out our updated preprint for MultiSTEP and coagulation Factor IX! This work highlights my most substantial contributions from my tech days in @dougfowler.bsky.social's lab 🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After 60 years, scientists finally know why ginger, calico, and tortoiseshell #cats look the way they do. scim.ag/3BpxRxY

I made a starter pack of folks affiliated with UW Genome Sciences (past and present) go.bsky.app/L8RAbiJ It's fairly sparse for now, so please let me know if you'd like to be added!

Channeled my inner Ms. Frizzle today - spent the day doing 1:1 scientific writing & editing with high school students ✍🏻

Thanks so much Zymo Research for the graduate student starter kit!! This isn’t sponsored - just super stoked about it 🙌🏻

Attending my conference ever today! 🧬 #pnwyc #pnwyc2024

Take a look at the website I created for our lab! 🌐

It's not every day that you get voted on by the UW Board of Regents and get a letter signed by the president and provost. Looks like I'm officially Chair! (effective July 1, which is why this article is from earlier this month) huddle.uwmedicine.org/maitreya-dun...

Two new students starting in the lab today! Welcome grad student Rachel and undergrad Elinor!

New @yevolab.bsky.social paper in G3 led by @reneegeck.bsky.social and featuring work from the classrooms of Tim Renz and Rebecca Brewer! Experimental evolution of S. cerevisiae for caffeine tolerance alters multidrug resistance and TOR signaling pathways academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining @maitreya.bsky.social’s lab for my thesis work, starting in June! 🔬🧬

Robin is such a delight to work with (and to be around, generally). If you’re looking for speakers that match their skillset and expertise, please pass along their info! www.linkedin.com/posts/robinx...

I am beyond thrilled to share this preprint with Nicholas Popp from Doug Fowler’s lab. I can’t wait to see where MultiSTEP goes next! 🧬🔬 Take a look here! ⤵️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #deepmutationalscan #dms #vampseq #factorix #factor9 #hemophiliab

It seems to be a great publication day for our cohort - congrats Zach Amador! Take a look here ⤵️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Huge congrats to Abby McGee, also in the 2023 UW GS cohort, for her recently published paper! Take a look here ⤵️ www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Looking forward to my spring rotation with the Starita Lab & Pinglay Lab🔬

Wrapped up my winter rotation with the Stergachis Lab yesterday! I ran pilot experiments for a tech dev project 🧬

cohorts that celebrate each other are something to treasure 🫶🏻

Congrats on a stellar defense, Sam 🥳 Watching you succeed has been such a delight. I am so proud of you!

congrats on your wonderful defense, Sayeh!!! I am so proud of you 🌱🎉

UW locals, please come by Foege today 12:30 for fall rotation talks, including from my student. Rachel figured out a new example of a human gene rescuing the corresponding yeast gene mutant in just 1 quarter! You’ll have to come to her talk to find out why we are a bit surprised by the result :)

today, I’ll be presenting the work I did in my rotation with @maitreya.bsky.social’s lab. I am so proud of the progress I made and unexpected results I found! it’s truly been a joy working with Maitreya and her lab this quarter, and I feel so lucky to have been here. here’s to a great quarter! 🎉

Huge congratulations to Taylor in @maitreya.bsky.social’s lab — it’s been such a delight to interact with her during my rotation and outside of lab. Her defense was so clear and thoughtfully put together, and I am so proud! Congrats ✨

today I had the pleasure of attending my friend Robin’s thesis defense. they are so intelligent, thoughtful, and enthusiastic, and it shows. I will miss seeing Robin around GS, but can’t wait to see what they accomplish next. congratulations, Robin!

So excited to get started in my first rotation!!