Last Night, John Oliver did a show on the NIH and indirect Costs. Watch the link below! A must watch🧪

On April 24, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Department of Genetics at Washington University. We heard about its history from Bob Waterston and Eric Green and how the former trainees are moving science forward. NHGRI has great resources for those interested in the history of Genomics.

That’s a wrap! We hope you enjoyed our 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium as much as we did! Thank you to all the speakers, students, faculty and staff who attended the event. Here’s to more amazing years at the Department of Genetics at WashU Medicine!

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin (1809-1882)! Today is Darwin Day to celebrate his birthday, science and evolution. 🐡🧪 “The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking closely behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of 🧵

It was a lot of fun getting to contribute to this paper, probably my last paper on transcription factors. The most surprising result is that the E80A mutation has only a minor effect on specificity but a large decrease in cooperativity and is a dominant mutant. 🧪 genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Thanks to the three reviewers for their thoughts and suggestions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm happy to report this paper is now available. The most interesting thing, to me, is that the E80A mutation has only a minor effect on specificity, but a large effect on cooperativity, and is a dominant mutant. genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...