If anyone would like to join me in a last-gasp-of-summer attempt to catch up on things before the new school year hits, I'm calling August #FrogMonth during which I'm going to try to polish off as many proverbial Twainian frogs as possible. Moldering papers, overdue administrative tasks, & more 🐸🐸🐸

Looking forward to our annual Wednesday Evening at the Genome Public Lecture tonight, this year in partnership with @burkemuseum.bsky.social: Samuel Wasser on using genetics to combat the illegal ivory trade. For future events, sign up for our mailing list mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/list...

At the Hutch today for a teacher training workshop with @sciedhutch.bsky.social New group of teachers trying out our yeast evolution and genomics high school activities as part of our @yevolab.bsky.social project. You can download materials from yevo.org (and we can send you strains too!)

Congratulations to undergraduate researchers Katya and Nya on winning Herschel & Caryl Roman Scholarships! www.gs.washington.edu/academics/aw...

Got myself some new business cards from the wonderful Letterpress pdx!

Join the Pacific Northwest Yeast Club for the 2026 PNWYC annual meeting! July 31st, 2026 at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Registration's FREE. Anyone working in any type of fungal system is welcome! www.pnwyc.net/home

Registration is open for the 2026 PNW Yeast Club meeting, July 31 at WWU in Bellingham. Researchers in any yeast/fungal systems welcome. Register by July 10 for talks, or July 24 for posters & other attendees. Thanks @dan-pollard.bsky.social and @kinasequeen.bsky.social for hosting! www.pnwyc.net

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PNWYC 2026 Meeting A day for yeast labs in the Pacific Northwest to get together and share research, outreach, teaching, and more! July 31, 2026, in Bellingham, WA, USA Western Washington University ...

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Weekday Jokes@weekdayjokes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Yeast Club meeting is called to order. All rise

End of spring quarter we said goodbye to newly graduated PhD student Gabby, and now beginning of summer we say hello to summer REU student Diana!

The @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Yeast Meeting will always be my favorite. Highlights: grad student Leah winning best poster (!), postdoc Sarah's poster on a new @yevolab.bsky.social evolution scheme, Barbara's talk on beer yeast evolution, Leah's real time data analysis on the mentoring panel #Yeast26

Building on a series of successful virtual meetings, members of GSA's Department Chairs Forum gathered at Asilomar for their first in-person meeting which provided a space for peer-level exchange on navigating a rapidly-shifting landscape and addressing challenges. ⬇️🧵

Dunham lab past and present at #Yeast26 ! @maitreya.bsky.social

Graduate awardees of #Yeast26 YGM Student Poster Awards announced by #InesPinto @uarkansas.bsky.social: #LeahAnderson @maitreya.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social, #NasimaAkhter @justinfay.bsky.social lab @urochester.bsky.social , & #OnyinyechiOnuoha #BruceKnutson lab @biochemdept-bmb.bsky.social

Had the very first @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Chairs Forum meeting today in Asilomar! So helpful to share information, advice, strategy (and some complaining) w/other department chairs & w/the wonderful @traceydepellegrin.bsky.social. Zoom has been great, but so nice to meet in person!

Congratulations to the winners of the GS outstanding Service Award: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), and Ryan Friedman (postdoc)!

Thrilled to see Hannah recognized! I've learned a lot from working with her to teach our department's intro genetics class!

University of Washington School of Medicine@uwsom-wwami.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Hannah Jordt on receiving a University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award for her commitment to student success and community-centered learning. https://bit.ly/4fUcfvR

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Good day for the lab grad students: Leah won peoples’ choice in the UW 3 Minute Thesis contest, Megan passed her quals, and Rachel got elected VP of Community Organizers in Genome Sciences! Multitalented bunch! I’m so proud!

Seattle-area folks: @uwgenome.bsky.social is doing a "Sunday Science Party" at the Southwest Library branch tomorrow! 2:00-3:30, activities for all ages including a model organism petting zoo, cat genetics mystery to solve, giant DNA mapping puzzles, make DNA (from strawberries or candy), and more.

#Yeast matchmaking goes interspecies: rescue by mating of meiotic spores directly post-germination screens haploid-lethal deletions. Validated between #S.cerevisiae and S.uvarum, allows study of essential #gene #evolution across #Saccharomyces. 🧬 #Genetics #APOYG www.yeastgenome.org/reference/42...

Catch up on all 3 days' talks from the Mutational Scanning Symposium (MSS) 2026 on our YouTube channel ⏯️ bit.ly/4diP7FD Whether you're watching for the first time or revisiting a favorite talk, there's something insightful to enjoy! #VariantEffect26 #AtlasOfVariantEffects

I had such a great time, thank you! So much cool science and outreach going on in your department.

MichaelMcMurray lab@mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So lucky that our campus got to host @maitreya.bsky.social on Tuesday who presented the Sadler Lecture as part of the Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Dept. Your talk was so much fun! thanks for visiting, Maitreya

New pilot grant opportunities @uw-nsc.bsky.social! These are small grants that essentially fund one of our cores to produce some data (so no money directly to the collaborator just to be totally up front about it.) Due May 31, and requires consult with a core leader halo.dlmp.uw.edu/nsc/nathan-s...

Research Development Core - Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute

The Research Development Core provides support for researchers nation- and world-wide, most often junior faculty, to develop pilot data to aid in new project and career development.  This is assisted ...

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New preprint with Bonny Brewer and Raghu's lab: Beyond ERCs: exploring catastrophic forms of rDNA instability in aging yeast. The original running title was "Irked by ERCs" since we have really had to think hard to try to explain some of our data (and others') about rDNA doi.org/10.64898/202...

Explore the future of biotechnology and its impact on beverage science with our closing keynote, Jay Keasling, a leader in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. Register now so you don't miss his talk: https://bit.ly/3MJ0KuA #ASBCCIBD #beveragescience

Seattle locals, Frank Rosenzweig is giving our Combi talk today and I highly recommend it! 1:30, Foege auditorium "Using Experimental and Comparative Genomics to Dissect a Major Evolutionary Transition"

The Barrick & Lenski Labs in Dept of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State Univ seek a Research Assistant II to manage their research operations and participate in projects related to microbial evolution and synthetic biology. See details below. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Assistant II - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Barrick and Lenski Labs in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State University are seeking a Research Assistant II to manage their research ope...

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Annual State of the Lab talk at lab meeting this morning. Always a satisfying exercise to pull together all the lab's accomplishments over the last year and think about what's ahead.

Nice interview by @brotmanbaty.bsky.social with my grad student Gabby, who works with me and @kelleyharris.bsky.social. Promising Young Scientist: Gabrielle Ferra Likes to ‘Parse Out Problems and Understand Them’ brotmanbaty.org/news/promisi...

Had great fun this weekend hanging out with @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social and his lab, past and present, to celebrate his lab’s 25th anniversary. Remarkable science, remarkable people. I only spent 6 months on sabbatical there but it had a long shadow on how I think about research and running a lab.

Nice of @thedailyuw.bsky.social to interview me and @bethbuffalo.bsky.social about becoming AAAS Fellows! www.dailyuw.com/article/fe9d...

Four UW researchers named AAAS Fellows

Four UW researchers named AAAS Fellows

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