Human Genetics Partnership recruitment candidates to visit Duke

Douglas Marchuk and David Goldstein, co-chairs of the search committee for the Human Genetics Partnership recruitment, invite all faculty and staff to attend research seminars by candidates for this new faculty position. This is a joint recruitment by the Center for Human Genome Variation and the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and is part of the Dean's joint recruitment initiative (watch video from the 2011 State of the School address). Previously, mitochondria expert Matthew Hirschey joined the Department of Medicine (his primary appointment, in the Division of Endocrinology), the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition & Metabolism Center.

Seminar schedule

Candidates for the Human Genetics Partnership position will visit Duke to present seminars related to their research interests. All seminars will be held in Bryan 103 from 4-5pm, unless otherwise noted. Additional information with the seminar titles will be distributed closer to the scheduled date. Contact Darcy McMullin (darcy.mcmullin@duke.edu) if you would like to meet with any of the candidates during their visit. [toggle title_open="Close Me" title_closed="Open to see list of candidates and their research interests" hide="yes" border="yes" style="default" excerpt_length="0" read_more_text="Read More" read_less_text="Read Less" include_excerpt_html="no"]Jan 31 Josh Shulman, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Neurogenetics Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mentor: Dr. Philip De Jager Broad Institute of Harvard/M.I.T. Research Interests: Functional dissection of genetic susceptibility networks in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease using Drosophila. Feb 6 Casey Brown, PhD Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, The University of Chicago Research Interests: Phenotypic consequences of non-protein coding sequence variation, Ciona, Drosophila and human. Feb 9 Stephanie Bielas, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow School of Medicine, University of California San Diego Mentor: Dr. Joseph Gleeson Research Interests: Neurogenetics, disease modeling in mice. Joubert Syndrome, microcephaly. Feb 21 Douglas Fowler, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Research Interests: High throughput analysis of functional consequences of sequence variation in proteins, especially kinases. Mar 13 Dennis Ko, MD, PhD Senior Fellow with Dr. Samuel I. Miller University of Washington Research Interests: “Hi-HOST”, genetic susceptibility to bacterial infection using high throughput cell culture based screens. April 5 Nanaline Duke 147 Roger Pique-Regi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow University of Chicago, Department of Human Genetics Advisor: Prof. Jonathan K. Pritchard Research Interests: Computational biology, gene regulatory elements and networks.[/toggle]