This year’s American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) was held—where else?—in Vancouver, Canada! Our northern neighbors invited human geneticists far and wide for five days of presentations, networking, and some scientific fun. Of course, I hardly ever pass up the opportunity to attend this meeting. As I have written before, ASHG is a great place […]
It has been a few months since my last post, so you might be asking, “Girl, what have you been up to lately?” Well, let me tell you…. The fall semester is always crazy busy. Classes begin. Our annual symposium is in full swing. And, the conferences. So many conferences. One unexpected meeting to hit […]
As I alluded in my previous post, I was invited to give talks at two prestigious meetings this year. The second meeting was the Gordon Research Conference Human Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms & Disease conference “Understanding the Mechanisms of Variant Effects in the Era of Genome Sequencing” held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts […]
As a “mid-career” scientist (oh, I can’t believe I just wrote that), I find myself looking towards the next logical milestones on the path to promotion. One such milestone is an invitation to speak at a prestigious national or international meeting. I have given talks before at major conferences, but most were a result of […]
In a typical calendar year, my conference season tends to be concentrated to the fall semester, culminating with the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in the first week of January just before or as the spring semester begins. Travel outside this schedule is generally limited to special meetings such as NIH study section, consortium meetings, etc. […]
It’s the end of another semester, and in this case, another academic year. This past semester, I taught EPBI 444 Communicating in Population Health Science Research and co-organized EPBI 502 Seminar in Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics. I don’t mind teaching all by myself, but it’s certainly more fun with friends! This past semester, I was […]
It’s official—spring is here and everything’s blooming in Cleveland (Figures 1 and 2). The sun is out, which puts a spring in our step. You know what else puts a spring in my step? Good news from the Crawford lab! First thing’s first: kudos to current Crawford crew member Brittany Hollister for surviving her latest […]
We are at the time of the year when I like to reflect back on the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB). It’s February, which means the snow is still blowing here at CWRU, and the temperatures are not inspiring the use of swimwear (Figure 1). The most recent PSB meeting was January 4-8, 2016, on […]
It’s the middle of the fall semester, so it’s time for some good news updates from the Crawford Crew! Both former Crawford Crew members Drs. Nicole Restrepo and Logan Dumitrescu recently received an NSF travel award to present work from the Crawford lab at the 2016 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Also receiving a travel award […]
There’s a chill in the air. Leaves have turned from bright green to brilliant red, yellow, and orange. The wind is picking up. You know what that means. Yes, it’s time for the annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting! ASHG is the professional organization for human genetics and has had an annual meeting […]
The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing is a unique mid-sized conference focused on computational methods with applications to the biomedical sciences. Hosted in Hawaii (Figures 1 and 2), PSB has been around since 1996, and many attendees have been to every single meeting. I had not heard of PSB until I met Dr. Marylyn Ritchie and […]
Summer is almost over—where has the time gone? What have we done? Well, the Crawford lab was abuzz with activity starting with the PhD commencement ceremony in May (Figure 1). Congrats to Nicole Restrepo, our newly minted PhD in human genetics! In June, both Nicole Restrepo and Haines lab post-doctoral fellow Jessica Cooke Bailey gave […]